Heh....I was expecting Nefandus to come out guns blazing on this one!
Whilst I think you make some fair points, Nef, the situation described above is a little more complex because it involves the potential for PC versus PC conflict. If the Paladin makes unbridled use of player knowledge and attacks the evil cleric with no obvious provocation, this has wasted an opportunity for what might be an interesting game of cat-and-mouse between the paladin and the cleric.
It all depends what the players enjoy, of course. In my own group we've had a situation where one of the party members was evil but coverered his tracks fairly carefully. The players enjoyed the fact that they knew, but their characters didn't.
Other groups of players might simply find this frustrating. In this case the situation is really best avoided in the first place.
Heh....I was expecting Nefandus to come out guns blazing on this one!
Whilst I think you make some fair points, Nef, the situation described above is a little more complex because it involves the potential for PC versus PC conflict. If the Paladin makes unbridled use of player knowledge and attacks the evil cleric with no obvious provocation, this has wasted an opportunity for what might be an interesting game of cat-and-mouse between the paladin and the cleric.
It all depends what the players enjoy, of course. In my own group we've had a situation where one of the party members was evil but coverered his tracks fairly carefully. The players enjoyed the fact that they knew, but their characters didn't.
Other groups of players might simply find this frustrating. In this case the situation is really best avoided in the first place.