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<blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1572418" data-attributes="member: 18377"><p>True. But I think that to act on the assumption that the Watch and the courts were ineffectual or corrupt can be justified only by a reasonable belief that it is so. To go around assuming without evidence that the Watch (or whatever) and the courts are corrupt or evil is disrespectful to authority. A paladin does not of course lose his powers as a resutl of a single act of unwarranted disrespect to authority, and therefore I do not opine that the paladin ought to lose his powers on the basis of this act alone. But lawful people do as a matter of definition tend to respect authority unless there is reason to believe that it is contemptible. So if this act is part of a prevailing pattern of the character assuming in the absence of evidence that authority is corrupt, then the character is in fact Chaotic. There is nothing wrong with that: I have a streak of Chaoticity myself and I am ready to defend it as right and proper. But if the character is being played as Chaotic the GM ought to adjust his alignment accordingly. The sad fact is that by the rules inthe PHB, the character would then lose his or her paladin's powers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agemegos, post: 1572418, member: 18377"] True. But I think that to act on the assumption that the Watch and the courts were ineffectual or corrupt can be justified only by a reasonable belief that it is so. To go around assuming without evidence that the Watch (or whatever) and the courts are corrupt or evil is disrespectful to authority. A paladin does not of course lose his powers as a resutl of a single act of unwarranted disrespect to authority, and therefore I do not opine that the paladin ought to lose his powers on the basis of this act alone. But lawful people do as a matter of definition tend to respect authority unless there is reason to believe that it is contemptible. So if this act is part of a prevailing pattern of the character assuming in the absence of evidence that authority is corrupt, then the character is in fact Chaotic. There is nothing wrong with that: I have a streak of Chaoticity myself and I am ready to defend it as right and proper. But if the character is being played as Chaotic the GM ought to adjust his alignment accordingly. The sad fact is that by the rules inthe PHB, the character would then lose his or her paladin's powers. [/QUOTE]
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