My Honest Opinion

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The GM has to actually work at creating moral dilemmas like "Oh no, a runaway slave has stashed itself in your luggage!" (or <shudder> that incredibly stupid orc nursery) before it actually becomes an issue,

There is a lot of overlap between the way some GMs think you should punish players who want to play Honest characters and the way they want to abuse players of Paladins. It probably says more about them personally than about the actual intent of those rules.

If the rules have a trait like this and nothing else that explicitly involves playing a such a common literary trope as following a code of Truth and Justice, that's what the authors intended it to be for.