Or rather, shining knight paladins are just not the only option. It really depends on your oath.
Devotion fits pretty nicely into the lawful good knight in shining armor archetype. Ancients meanwhile is more about life and good in general and explicitly doesn't care about law or chaos. Crowns seems to lean more lawful neutral. There are plenty of options and there is plenty of room for more pragmatic or chaos leaning paladins. While still leaving plenty of room for the old archetype.
I find that "Lawful" and "Good" are both very flexible terms.
For Good, you just need to justify what you're doing. For Lawful, you just need to adhere to a set code.
My paladin is pragmatic and follows the following rules: 1.Protect those in your tribe/party, their wellbeing is most important. 2. Try to refrain from unnecessary bloodshed 3. Do not injure others for your own personal gain (Unless you're willing to heal/reimburse them)
4. Be kind to Dwarves since your goddess is a dwarf. (Also, return anything you borrow.)
She's followed these laws pretty well and has constantly told white lies, temporarily stolen stuff, and has set tents on fire before killing the people inside. If you can justify it, you can get away with it. (Although she didn't keep anything when she rummaged through some sarcophagi for something useful to use in the moment.)
Here's the deal: The undead have risen out of their graves and started to cause havoc in the world. You and your party have or are in the process of defeating them. In order to continue the fight against evil, you are going to need the proper tools to do that, hence: you loot the sarcophagi.
There is a concept called the "Spoils of War", where if an enemy accosts you, and you defeat him/her/it, you have the right to take everything it had on it or in its possession. It is a very knightly custom. You would be perfectly within character to invoke it.
Since you are Chaotic, you can probably get away with feeding bodies to the Nothic to get the info you need. But don't forget that Nothics are on the "To Smite" List. So go ahead and waste them when you are done with the jibber-jabber.
This really has nothing to do with being a paladin, it's an issue of other players telling someone how their character is supposed to behave.
It would be one thing if the OP was actively disrupting the campaign, but at least from what we've seen so far that doesn't appear to be the case, in which case the other players are just kind of being rude.
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I just consider it as searching for information and things that might lead to future success against this evil.
The old days of Shining Knight Paladins are gone. But that doesn't mean you can't smite a shifty Rogue now and then, just for
funpractice.Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
Or rather, shining knight paladins are just not the only option. It really depends on your oath.
Devotion fits pretty nicely into the lawful good knight in shining armor archetype. Ancients meanwhile is more about life and good in general and explicitly doesn't care about law or chaos. Crowns seems to lean more lawful neutral. There are plenty of options and there is plenty of room for more pragmatic or chaos leaning paladins. While still leaving plenty of room for the old archetype.
I find that "Lawful" and "Good" are both very flexible terms.
For Good, you just need to justify what you're doing.
For Lawful, you just need to adhere to a set code.
My paladin is pragmatic and follows the following rules:
1.Protect those in your tribe/party, their wellbeing is most important.
2. Try to refrain from unnecessary bloodshed
3. Do not injure others for your own personal gain (Unless you're willing to heal/reimburse them)
4. Be kind to Dwarves since your goddess is a dwarf.
(Also, return anything you borrow.)
She's followed these laws pretty well and has constantly told white lies, temporarily stolen stuff, and has set tents on fire before killing the people inside. If you can justify it, you can get away with it. (Although she didn't keep anything when she rummaged through some sarcophagi for something useful to use in the moment.)
That suit of Plate Armor ain't gonna buy itself.
Here's the deal: The undead have risen out of their graves and started to cause havoc in the world. You and your party have or are in the process of defeating them. In order to continue the fight against evil, you are going to need the proper tools to do that, hence: you loot the sarcophagi.
There is a concept called the "Spoils of War", where if an enemy accosts you, and you defeat him/her/it, you have the right to take everything it had on it or in its possession. It is a very knightly custom. You would be perfectly within character to invoke it.
Since you are Chaotic, you can probably get away with feeding bodies to the Nothic to get the info you need. But don't forget that Nothics are on the "To Smite" List. So go ahead and waste them when you are done with the jibber-jabber.
This really has nothing to do with being a paladin, it's an issue of other players telling someone how their character is supposed to behave.
It would be one thing if the OP was actively disrupting the campaign, but at least from what we've seen so far that doesn't appear to be the case, in which case the other players are just kind of being rude.