Thanks ^.^ I appreciate the positive words!
Discussion about paladins and such in spoilers, since it's tangential to the stream synopsis.
It's tagged hard deception, but really it's a truthful mislead that serves the good of all. It is true that my MC will take care of Lae'zel; under MC leadership she won't harm innocents and MC has a lot of reason to think Lae'zel has a path to the cure, therefore saving the life of self (legitimate value). The dupe also saves the lives of the Tieflings who have an understandable but ignorant reason to kill Lae'zel. Allowing them to do so would in itself be supporting the lie that all Githyanki are evil.
You are still deceiving them; you are deliberately leading and allowing them to believe something about the situation, while your intention is otherwise, and you do this deliberately - it's deception, through and through. Arguably, asisting Lae'zel is not a good act - I say arguably because it's not black and white, and she's not a good person.
"But I didn't technically tell a lie" is wheedling, and it's the fall back of an already dishonest character - because what matters is that you were deceiving them, and trying to talk your way out of the simple fact that you did so, on a technicality, is, itself, lacking in integrity. The skill that we roll isn't "Lying", it's "Deception", and one can most certainly deceive without lying.
[quote]Long story short. Paladins in good standing don't lie, but they don't have correct misunderstanding, particularly to would-be killers.
This is simply not true.
Most paladin oaths have nothing whatsoever to do with lying or deceiving - if you're operating on the single archetypal knight-in-shining-armour-and-probably-pseudo-christian-value-holding idea of a paladin, that's fine, but that's one possibility of paladin, and one alone, and it's not the baseline or an essential part of any paladin or oath. what matters for a paladin is having an oathsworn principle that they truly believe in and hold important in their personal dedication, and in staying true to that; degrees of honesty and integrity outside of that dedication is free to be as wild and variable as there are mortal lives in the multi-verse.
