History KnightTemplar / TabletopGames

** Some chapters of the Imperial {{Space Marine}}s themselves fall into this. There's even a chapter called the Black Templars who are notorious for their intolerance of aliens, mutants, and heretics -- going as far as to "purge" entire planetary colonies because somebody there has bought equipment from alien traders. (The standard Imperial response would be to round up and execute ''only'' the buyer/s and whoever is suspected of being a collaborater/enabler, unless the stuff came from a Rogue Trader -- in which case it's all good, unless it's contraband even for Rogue Traders -- or starts showing signs of Chaos taint.) Their colours and insignia are derived from TheKnightsHospitallers, though.

** The followers of Solkan, one the gods of law, are this to the point that even other extremists ''fear'' them.

*** The Ravenloft setting is also home to Diamabel, who closely fit this trope, as well as some more sympathetic examples, such as the well-meaning but ignorant Tepestani Inquisition, and monster-hunters or Darkonian Ezrans who've gone overboard in their crusades against supernatural evils.

* Ubiquitous in ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''. TabletopGame/{{Hunter|TheVigil}}s, TabletopGame/{{Vampire|TheRequiem}}s, TabletopGame/{{Werewol|fTheForsaken}}ves, TabletopGame/{{Mage|TheAwakening}}s...all of them have the threat of becoming this hanging over them. (Hunters are "extreme risk," since they're able to modify their code to facilitate hunting... and this tends to send them over the deep end, especially since the average "veteran" hunter, i.e. one who hasn't been dismembered yet, hasn't had a good night's sleep in five years.)

* Some ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' FreedomCity villains have these traits. The costumed villain [[TheJailer Warden]] has a particularly extreme case: he worked on making prisons as [[CardboardPrison non-cardboardy]] as possible, and got a bit fed up with people making that task harder by telling him that the prisoners have rights; didn't they forfeit those when they ended up in prison? His current goal is to overthrow "soft and corrupt" law and replace it with something altogether more draconian.

* And presented again in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' by [[StateSec the Inquisition]] of [[TheEmpire the Imperium of]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]], who [[EarthShatteringKaboom eradicate entire worlds]] to stop heresy from spreading. Justified, considering that heresy is inevitably followed by the horrors of the Warp.

* Many factions in ''BattleTech'' count. The Clans believe its their destiny to conquer the Inner Sphere and restore the Star League. [=ComStar=] still has access to pre fall lost tech, but they think that they should wait out for the Successor States to knock themselves back to the stone age and they would come in an bring enlightenment to the IS.

*** Then again the Eldar are (supposedly) in danger of extinction, unlike [[WeHaveReserves humanity in 40K]]. Also, unlike humanity, when Eldar die their souls [[FateWorseThanDeath are doomed to become the playthings of an evil god of hedonism for eternity]], unless they take very specific and complicated precautions.

** Some chapters of the Imperial {{Space Marine}}s themselves fall into this. There's even a chapter called the Black Templars who are notorious for their intolerance of aliens, mutants, and heretics -- going as far as to "purge" entire planetary colonies because somebody there has bought equipment from alien traders. (The standard Imperial response would be to make the buyer/s pay a fine, unless the stuff came from a Rogue Trader -- in which case it's all good -- or starts showing signs of Chaos taint.) Their colours and insignia are derived from TheKnightsHospitallers, though.

** At least 10% of ''anyone'' involved in ''anything'' in ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' are Knights Templar. The [[CrystalDragonJesus Church of the Silver Flame's]] hardliners a) want to forcibly convert ''everyone'' and b) [[KillItWithFire consider fire a divinely sanctioned weapon]], even against [[MoralEventHorizon civilians]]. This is from a ''LawfulGood'' religion, with help from Eberron removing the rule about cleric alignments. And one of the ''basic premises'' of the Silver Flame is that swordpoint conversions are '''utterly meaningless'''. Shifters are also rarely members of the Church, mainly because of their recent crusade against lycanthropes: many shifters were similar enough to the lycanthropes to be targeted as well. They're still not pleased on that score.

* Peleps Deled from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. Our first introduction has him sparring with a fellow monk over a minor theological point, only to brutally crush her windpipe when he trips her. The question: "Is Terrestrial Exaltation ''of'' the Dragons, or ''from'' them?" And just to further clarify, this is a man whose actual job is supposed to be hunting the Anathema, and he murders his own colleagues over ''prepositions'' (a large portion of his appeal to players and Storytellers is that while most Dragon-Bloods in the Realm can be treated as "good guys" in the right circumstances, Peleps is universally Thunderclap Rush Attack fodder).

** The point has been made that the detail is important. If the Exaltations are "of" the Dragons rather than "from", it would mean that the Dragons are ''not'' in any way responsible for who Exalts as a Dragonblood or why - hence invalidating the Immaculate justification for the Dynasty's "divine right" to rule. Which is incidentally true, as the Exaltations were intentionally designed to operate completely independent of their creators.

* In the RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'', there is a group of people - including some player characters - that call themselves Templars. In a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] setting named, well, ''Hell on Earth'', you can imagine what they're like: unflinchingly hard-nosed and often turning away those in need simply because they don't live up to some subjective moral standard. Even worse, sometimes they ''force'' others, who are less "worthy", to do unseemly tasks with their awesome supernatural powers. And ''they're the good guys''. Their more [[TheMessiah messianic]] counterparts have been [[TheDarkSide corrupted]]: while they start out trying to save everyone, they inevitably become pawns of evil.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' frequently uses this trope with White. In fact, most angels are portrayed as fanatical warmongers. Particular examples include the archangel Radiant (turns a paradise into a police state in the name of her goddess), Akroma, Angel of Wrath (leads a genocidal war to wipe out an evil organization), and Reya Dawnbringer (raises her followers from death, denying them repose).

** This applies to the Tau, too, to a lesser extent. They at least ask others to join them first, and if they don't they blast with everything they got.

** Virtually all the factions in ''Warhammer 40,000'' whose main goals are not exactly self-serving are this, perfectly representing its BlackAndGrayMorality. That, or they are [[BloodKnight the Orks]] or [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Tyranids]].

** This applies to the Tau, too, to a lesser extent.

** In TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}, there's a Darklord who's one of these, a Paladin named Elena Faith-hold who became so extreme (as in, not even her god would support her pogroms against the "unworthy") that the Dark Powers took notice of her and stuffed her into Ravenloft. Every night, she is taken on a ride across her domain to see the spirits of all she has tortured to death, and when she gets back up, she is filled with a desire to make her domain a better place. Unfortunately, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint this usually means more torture and pogroms]]. Plus, her "detect evil" actually detects strong passions, so people who like her register the same as people who loathe her, and both usually end up on the chopping block.

-->'''Asmodeus''' - "Read the fine print."//
*** Of course, how much of that legend is actually true is subjective. There is ample evidence that Asmodeus was actually ''cast'' into Hell after being banished from Heaven. One thing ''is'' true, however: The contract, which is called the Pact Primordial, is ''very'' real.

-->'''Asmodeus''' - "Read the fine print."

** Moving to ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', roughly half of the Mercykillers faction can fall into this category; they were originally two separate factions, the Sons of Mercy (LawfulGood) and the Sodkillers (LawfulEvil), but when the Lady of Pain declared that only ten factions could exist, they joined forces; after the Faction War, when the Lady banished all the factions, the Mercykillers split apart again.

* The nation of Wreathe in ''{{Mortasheen}}'' is basically [[{{Fallout}} the Enclave]] turned UpToEleven. They are so obsessed with a "pure" humanity that they launch unprovoked attacks on anything even ''slightly'' unhuman, and are more than willing to murder ''other humans'' who refuse to bow down to their [[ANaziByAnyOtherName totalitarian]] regime. [[spoiler:The fact that they're secretly lead by a batshit insane computer program doesn't exactly help either]].

* The nation of Wreathe in ''{{Mortasheen}}'' is basically [[{{Fallout}} the Enclave]] turned UpToEleven. They are so obsessed with a "pure" humanity that they launch unprovoked attacks on anything even ''slightly' unhuman, and are more than willing to murder ''other humans'' who refuse to bow down to their [[ANaziByAnyOtherName totalitarian]] regime. [[spoiler:The fact that they're secretly lead by a batshit insane computer program doesn't exactly help either]].

** In TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}, there's a Darklord who's one of these, a Paladin named Elena Faith who became so extreme (as in, not even her god would support her pogroms against the "unworthy") that the Dark Powers took notice of her and stuffed her into Ravenloft. Every night, she is taken on a ride across her domain to see the spirits of all she has tortured to death, and when she gets back up, she is filled with a desire to make her domain a better place. Unfortunately, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint this usually means more torture and pogroms]]. Plus, her "detect evil" actually detects strong passions, so people who like her register the same as people who loathe her, and both usually end up on the chopping block.
** The Ravenloft setting is also home to Diamabel, who closely fit this trope, as well as some more sympathetic examples, such as the well-meaning but ignorant Tepestani Inquisition, and monster-hunters or Darkonian Ezrans who've gone overboard in their crusades against supernatural evils.

* The nation of Wreathe in ''{{Mortasheen}}'' is basically [[{{Fallout}} the Enclave]] turned UpToEleven. They are so obsessed with a "pure" humanity that they launch unprovoked attacks on anything even ''slightly' unhuman, and are more than willing to murder ''other humans'' who refuse to bow down to their [[ANaziByAnyOtherName totalitarian]] regime. [[spoiler:The fact that they're secretly lead by a batshit insane computer program doesn't exactly help either]].]]