The paladin protects the rogue because he loves her. Love conquers all.

Well, that could work I guess. I'm looking more for situations than motivations. Situations that would be really annoying to have a paladin hanging around, you know?

Why not have the Palladin start openly giving back bounty and saying "I found this, I heard from town rumour that it was yours or something". Do it a few times then have the Rogue find out.

I say that the Paladin will protect the rouge...even if it's from himself. The Paladin will do everything to keep his ideals and if that means stopping the rouge from stealing from innocents so be it. The rouge can turn around and get rid of him anytime he wants. Of course that is an extremem example. Another way of looking at it is the paladin just "looks the other way".

Wow... That is pretty messed up... But, I supposed I could scheme something here. The only thing that I can think of is if you are a bit flexable on your paladin alignments (NG or CG paladins), you can switch the paladin's AL to NG and have him constantly switch and change his stance on things such as robbery, murder, assault and the like. Then again, that would "take the fun out of this situation", but that is the only way that I can see this happening without the two of them killing each other off.

I'd suggest an understanding type of paladin, one who won't do anything against the rogue if they do something he thinks is bad; but who will explain..at length...why it's wrong to do that, and what the possible outcomes etc are. I played one like that once, he always thought the best of people and tried to understand and explain things not that it always went well, but he ended up good friends with the rogue anyway, even if he was sometimes disapointed. Ideally that sense of letting a friend down should actually come to mean something to the rogue too-not that they'll stop, but they'll go to great lengths to hide what they're doing, not from fear, but embarrasment:>


The paladin, once they've found the "bad guy's" place, wants to seek permision from the local law before entering the property.

that's a horrible dirty trick... giving your rogue a corporeal conscience...

Rocks!

;o)
Dan

I would have the paladin not only turn the rogue into the authorities, but first demand the rogue return the item that he stole. I'd also have the paladin detecting evil constantly on the rogue and whenever the rogue does something even remotely evil, have the paladin jump all over him. ;-)

As a side note, I love changelings. I play a changeling psion/sorcerer/cerebremancer.

Agreed.

Another possibility is that the Paladin wants to stay with the rougue so much that he ends up denouncing/losing his paladinship and becoming a regular fighter of some sort... but that would slightly defeat the purpose of making him a Paladin in the first place. Well, defeat the purpose other than for role playing purposes anyways.