This is how I paladin, /tg/
>>53805738
You fuck up horribly because of paranoia then Fall, only to fuck up again trying to redeem yourself?
>>53805738
So...brainless idiot that doesn't see beyond alignments and is trigger-happy to smite?
>>53805738
So, in a blind, self-serving view of what it means to do good, while also being lawful stupid?
This is flat out the worst way to paladin, because it is the one that is most self-destructive.
>>53805768
>>53805775
>>53805819
If you're not smiting evil 24/7, you're doing it wrong
>>53805738
So, obeying the letter of the law, not the spirit, in an attempt to hide behind the authority of your order, whilst absolving yourself of personal accountability
This is how I paladin
In her defense, that little shit is an evil and sadistic little fuck and Roy is just using him like a quasi-controllable missle
This is how I check for traps.
>>53806107
Yeah, there's no excuse in killing her lord.
>>53805775
>doesn't see beyond alignments
How do you "see beyond" an elemental force of the universe?
This is how I paladin
This is how I druid.
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>>53805876
Well, a good rule for RPGs is "play the character you know", and I am a cop, so...yes?
>>53805865
Say that when your gods take your powers because your smiting spree turned out to be neither good nor lawful.
>>53805738
Why you gotta publish the one decent thing she almost did.
>>53806149
Alignment stopped being *about* that when alignment languages died, with the introduction of the good/evil axis.
>>53805738
>This is how I paladin
>>53806300
Are you American?
>>53805876
THIN BLUE LINE
This is how I Rogue.
>>53809296
Do those have a reputation of being unstable there? I know the old urban myths of getting sucked into the escalator, but they're not avoiding the part where that actually is supposed to happen, they're avoiding the maintenance hatch.
>>53809363
Chinese escalators eat people, lots of people. Just like how Chinese elevator doors swing open or start to go up/down with the door open, cutting someone in half.
>>53809363
I'm guessing you didn't see the gig of one of those falling through and the dude getting crushed to death.
I don't have it but I'd be spooked by those if I lived in with shitty Chinese construction too
>>53809363
In China, escalators have eaten multiple people in recent years, so it gets folks paranoid.
>>53806300
So you must really like shooting unarmed orcs.
This is how I Paladin
>>53805738
So focused on alignment that you ignore a reality-ending threat simply because it's an amoral force of hunger and destruction, while one of the dudes working to stop it happens to light up on your color-coded Bad Guy display?
There's an alternate time line where Miko got GREENHILTED and received enough treasure type O to lighten up enough that she didn't damn existence.
>>53805738
I just protect the innocent, shield my allies, heal the sick, and uphold the ideals of justice and freedom in all my actions while taking as little life as I can.
>tfw we Reinhardt now
>>53805738
This is how I gladiator
>>53809786
I just want to smite demons and heal the sick but my whole party is bastards. Feels bad man.
>>53810370
Have you tried smiting your party?
>>53810562
>Not redeeming them to CG at the very least
Amateur paladin detected.
>>53809786
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go,
To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!
This is my quest,
To follow that star,
No matter how hopeless.
No matter how far.
To fight for the right
Without question or pause.
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause!
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest...
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reaaaach the un reach a ble star!
>>53805738
Worst paladin.
This is how you paladin.
>>53809465
Is it even paranoia if you can point to an actual honest to god data set of the thing you're afraid of happening?
>>53809786
Thats literally how I play my paladin. My man
this is how I paladin
>>53808544
>not liking the Belkster
Wew lad.
>>53812581
you can like him all you want but he is objectively Evil.
>this is how I Warlock.
>>53808846
Best paladin.
>>53812680
Wasn't she at the top of several most hated characters lists?
>>53812766
Yeah, lots of people hated her because she rained down justice on some irrelevant waifu-bait criminal.
>>53812653
>Crowley
UGHSeriously though, you're right fucked if you read that and decide it's actual magic. Get thee to a new age store and buy a crystal, why don'tcha.
>>53812907
mainly use the image for aesthetic, I don't think anyone with half a brain thinks that's how magic, if possible, is actually done.
>>53812581
He said it's the decent thing to do, not the right thing to do.
>>53805738
this is how to paladin.
damn scrubs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQXy84W2AZU
this is how I Paladin
>>53809363
they aren't myths. it actually happened and there is video footage.
>>53805865
And if there is no evil to smite, do you raise innocents to be evil just so you can smite them?
This is how I Chaotic Evil
>>53806270
Mah Nigga
how I multiclass bard/necromancer
paladin
>>53813718
>Dragonheart
Ow, these feels.
This is how I sorcerer.
>>53812839
She went completely batshit by the end. I was more dissappointed in how the author started pulling his punches when the end rolled around.
>>53812907
Id say the bigger problem is the plastic bones, and the lack of an anthame or similar tool. Magic is bullshit, but if you're going to fool around at least do it in earnest and try to make it work.
>>53815348
Paladin of Helm?
>>53815326
You monster.
>>53815225
Is it weird that I read this in Adam West speak?
>>53805738
Belkar 100% had it coming.
>>53815739
not at all since he voiced the characters
this is how I barbarian
>>53815840
Why did I understand that reference?
>>53805775
>evil is objective and real
>people who are only casually evil, like somebody from a society of torturers and slave-holders, don't even ping
>don't smite anyone who pings
Somebody is playing D&D WRONG.
>>53815868
>Lord's been lying to her for justifiable reasons, doesn't ping evil
>Smite him right away without even giving him a chance to explain himself
Somebody sure is.
>>53815855
Cause you're educated and not a nigger?
>>53815806
>HE KILLED THE LOCAL HINDU TEMPLE'S GOD VIPER
>HAVING CONSUMED ITS BLOOD AND FLESH, HE HIMSELF MUST BECOME A GOD
>HIS NAME WILL BE VIPERSON TEMPLE
>>53815704
Wait til you see how I lawful neutral
>>53815384
Meh. It's mediocre, anyway.That was a joke.
>>53815274
Time to make a campaign...
>>53808846
A psycho murderer taking orders from the most corrupted and evil empire to date, who is in just for the thrill of killing people and calling it justice?
I guess it is a good Hellknight, if anything.