Paladins and tog vic, take 2

[Dalar]

Are paladins allowed to kill mortally wounded npcs in 3.5? If so, can paladins tog vic? I don't understand why a paladin would even hesitate to finish off evil.

[Zalkenai]

In "The book of exalted deeds" it talks at length about good killing evil. It generally states that most things should be given a chance to redeem themselves, and that the truly good would offer them that chance (demons/devils excluded... it says these are too evil to be turned).

While this kind of works for a tabletop RP game, where there's a chance to turn someone away from their "misguided" ways, what does it leave on a game where nobody is controlling the RP of NPCs?

[Dalar]

Does it offer redemption before you mortally wound it or before you even attack it? Also, isn't it against RP for quite a few class/race combinations to go around killing multiple npcs and genocide of certain races (podlings!) to gain power? For less game frustration, remove the !tog vic for paladins. For the RPers who complain, set them back to level 1 and tell them that killing is bad and alignment is permanent and see how they like it.

[Zalkenai]

I was just trying to give a 3.0-3.5 rules appropriate answer. It is not my opinion. In Tabletop RP, as well as in this game, most alignment based things tend to go against the nature of the game itself.

i.e. killing things for loot/power/xp

[Disoputlip]

From a gameplay perspective the wierd part I think is you specifically have to type: kill mob, when it is lying there mortally wounded.

That makes the paladin class stand out as more bloody than the other classes. This is especially noticable, and almost hilarious on the very low levels with n00b eq.

I could mabye understand this behaviour to mobs you don't want to kill, ie. mobs that gives -xp. But not orcs etc.