Being a Paladin in Current Arabel
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So I temporarily retired Landon Tyrell because I could not find any niche to fit in Arabel since the change of leadership. The only knightly order in the server at the moment is the Red Hart, and combined with the fact that they are way less involved now and they have had disagreements with Landon, I really have no idea how I should act as a Paladin of Torm in Arabel. Torm teaches to root out corruption, however, there is so much suffering in Arabel left over from the last few story arcs that inciting a revolution of sorts would cause so much more pain to innocents that it would violate other tenants of the Triad. (Not to mention there is no interest in such a thing) I'm going to be playing on a limited basis, as in not every day and not on anymore 8 hour play streaks. But I really want to bring Landon back but I'm unsure how a paladin who fought in the bloodstone conflicts, who fought in the Devil dragon battles, and who knows the truth about the current queen, handles living in a city where Easthaven rules and bloodstones are leagal.
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Well… if there's a truth about the queen to be known, you may want to start off exposing that. Try to re-establish the Lighthouse, maybe, as a more secretive movement. Try to free Flynn of the undead
Beat up a Sheriff.
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Well… if there's a truth about the queen to be known, you may want to start off exposing that. Try to re-establish the Lighthouse, maybe, as a more secretive movement. Try to free Flynn of the undead
Beat up a Sheriff.
Tried to form the Lighthouse as a secretive organization but I was rightfully corrected in that a Paladin of a god that values truth wouldn't lie. I could try to work with the mage's guild on exposing the truth of Bloodstones, however, exposing the truth of the Queen seems like it would not do much in a Neutral-Evil Arabel. As for Flynn, I never thought about that, perhaps I should look into forming a crusade to purify Flynn
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If there's ever a time that paladins are needed, it's when no one else will try and fight evil, or because it's too inconvenient to try and be goodly and honourable. That is the paladin niche, the hard core of "team good" in the setting that is meant to be unmovable.
This is the time that playing a paladin takes a turn and really becomes a unique experience! You should be out there trying to rouse the population to deeds of rightousness, out slaying evil and protecting innocents and refusing bribes - trying to inspire people to pursue LG agendas.
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And the fact that your doing it alone, with no faction means your actually doing it as opposed to just following along. I always thought armies of paladins were somewhat absurd, they should be trying to get non-paladins to follow them in whats right.
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Pursuing the nature of bloodstones, dealers, origins, etc should not be a primary goal imo. It should be a smaller goal in a larger agenda not a main goal.
Pursuing the demon who recently got loose is a fine and dandy goal for a paladin now. There are alot of PCs who know what happened, potential for conflict and overall craziness.
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@Khamal:
Pursuing the nature of bloodstones, dealers, origins, etc should not be a primary goal imo. It should be a smaller goal in a larger agenda not a main goal.
Pursuing the demon who recently got loose is a fine and dandy goal for a paladin now. There are alot of PCs who know what happened, potential for conflict and overall craziness.
I don't know if its conflict of interest or not to take a huge role in the demon thing when my other character was "on-location" so to speak.
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@latoksinned:
@Khamal:
Pursuing the nature of bloodstones, dealers, origins, etc should not be a primary goal imo. It should be a smaller goal in a larger agenda not a main goal.
Pursuing the demon who recently got loose is a fine and dandy goal for a paladin now. There are alot of PCs who know what happened, potential for conflict and overall craziness.
I don't know if its conflict of interest or not to take a huge role in the demon thing when my other character was "on-location" so to speak.
Either way, if you bring back Landon, it will be hard not to get involved in the demon thing. You can't avoid it, being a paladin and all. You'd have to choose which character to pursue going forward and stick to it. OOC you know whats going on, but IC Landon wouldn't know and you have to RP that way. Bottom line is to play the character that is most fun for you and not worry about it.
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They are both fun to play characters, however, Bladedancer is more of a sidekick character than a proactive one. And with the whole event that happened yesterday, he would have to take a leadership role temporarily to continue playing him. Plus, I miss having a character that I can be proactive with. Landon was not the most powerful fighter, but he could hold his own in battle. Bladedancer was a melee fighter who relied on a tank in order to work effectively. I'll miss my bard songs and the carefree RP of Laer'Megil, however I need a character that can just dice up evil for awhile.
I guess what really makes the game fun for me is a PC or PC faction that acts as a nemesis. I feel like a need a driving force to fight against that doesn't rely on asking DM's for help, as I feel like begging for DM attention is very selfish of me when there are alot more involved characters who could use the spice. First Landon had the bloodstone dealers, then the cults, then the family of blood, then he had Anton Black, and then lastly he had Kresswell. Anton had been a driving rival for Landon since creation, when Black was killed and Kresswell retired, it left Landon without a rival.
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There is no better time to play a paladin than now. Echoed what Lizzy said.
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@latoksinned:
, it left Landon without a rival.
I need a rival too. I really have to stop being nice. I thought the elves hated me, but all they do is glare at me even after I attacked them twice…
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I thought we got rid of all the elves in one of our ganks.
Any time good isn't in control is a great time to play a paladin, and to a lesser extent, when chaos is in control (though I feel that the conflict here isn't as interesting, more annoying). Evil is not in control, and don't presume it is. The city went from LG under Azoun and Cormyr to CN under Gondegal and Cassiel, to CG under Lhal, and is, I'd guess, TN under Veneith. To a paladin, it could be better, but don't be an overzealous player and look at things as black and white. There's at least 3 shades of gray in this system's alignment bank.
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The Best paladins i ever seen shine in times of corruption and tyrant.
The Sheriffs (our Protectors) have being doing a few shady things lately.
Blood stones are around
the new queen married to a Murderer.
Grab that sword swear some oaths and start kicking some holy ass!
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I enjoy it.
Some of the best interactions I've had have been between certain members of the 'Good' community and my paladin. His reluctance to operate outside the existing legal framework versus their insistence of the endemic corruption within that framework, have been pretty awesome.
It is hard. Really hard. It can feel like a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' sort of environment as a paladin - either you bend the laws to do some good, or you adhere to the laws and do little good. But that's what makes it an interesting class to play in this environment. You get to decide how your paladin reacts to each individual situation based on his own personality, not a black and white paladin code.