Examples: LG Paladin sees all creatures from Avernus as monsters, has no problem killing 'innocent' tieflings on sight.
Ah yes the classic 'the good paladin is actually the evil one' trope. Seriously it only works if you abandon all reason, try to use wordplay to 'game the system' and have no common sense imo.
Good and evil are true concepts in dnd. Murder is still evil, regardless of whatever the one doing it believes it or not. Killing unarmed civilains regardless of race is kinda frowned upon by good aligned deities. Neutral ones could be ok with it depending on the curcumstances under which they occur.
In the case of the pala what happens would depend on his god. Paladins get their powers from their gods and if they piss them off enough they can strip them off those powers and make them fallen paladins.
So could he still do it? Yeah he can. But it would still be an evil act and can have consequences.
Sorry. Pet peeve of mine. I agree that 'asshole' isent the same as evil. And evil isent always moustache twirling bond villain evil. Nor is beeing snarky or sarcaatic beeing evil.
Well written evil characters can come across as good characters infact because often times the only difference is how willing the character is to do 'morally questionable' things.
Friend of mine who likes to play lawfull evil characters can confuse people by following the word of law almost to the letter and only does things when he cant get caught or uses the law to protect him from people who want to retaliate against him. It drives people nuts. Its great!
