An evil wizard sees our good paladin and casts a spell on him, let's say he tries Hold Person. Spell fails and alerts our guy that he is being attacked. Since he was kneeling at an altar and praying, he has no weapons and no armour. Earlier, he had asked one of the pages to capture the hornets from the nest that was hanging in the eaves of the narthex, and they are sitting on the floor in a large jar beside him humming like mad. Awakened from his deep concentrated prayer, the paladin stands and looks around for anything that he could use to prevent the wizard from getting off his next spell realizing that disrupting the casting is the only thing that will save his life. Seeing the jar of hornets, he grabs it and heaves it at the evil wizard. The jar hits the wizard square in the chest and smashes to piecees releasing hundreds of angry hornets (he rolled a 20) and the wizard's concentration is broken and spell disrupted...calvinus wrote:If it is thrown at an evil arcane caster that attacked first, how would this affect your answer?DM Arkanis wrote:I would say it would depend on the paladin's intent, reason for throwing said jar, who it was thrown at, and reaction of the victim.calvinus wrote:Is throwing a jar full of hornets at someone something that would cause a paladin to fall?
While not necessarily very "romantic" in terms of fighting-style, I don't see anything dishonourable for the paladin in this scenario.