Originally Posted by benbaxter
Originally Posted by Demoulius
Originally Posted by benbaxter

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.


Except that in DnD creatures from the hells are very much evil by nature, and much like the undead, are considered 'kill on sight' by a lot of gods. Where is the line for murder? If a Lemure hasn't killed anyone yet, but you kill it anyway, have you committed murder? How many murders does it take for you to be evil?


Except that tieflings are also from the hells and are not by nature evil - as seen very easily in BG3 with Karlach. And that celestials can fall and become part of Avernus, which means fiends can 'rise' and become good. Tbh, it depends on context on why the paladin is there. But any paladin killing tieflings is probably not going to get away with "but they're FIENDS".