I got most of the party killed and feel bad

[Drogorn]

Now daddy wants you to join the Secret Order of your Paladin family. The Sacred order of Illumination was established to protect people from themselves.....if you don't...well Fnord! Now you know too much!


Mommy is not happy that you took Warlock/Sorcerer levels....this is not how you do things in this family.


Relations be it family or others can be used to make drama. Remember that book/comic/tvshow/movie about that orphan that knew nobody and just went about killing stuff? I don't.

Given that many GM's use it very badly to force a plot by killing or kidnapping. And even when Players show up with orphan PC then creative GM's just tell them their father is Darth Vader.....instant drama. How is the PC going to tackle that?

Yes, but you see, now you had to get creative since the family isn't a bunch of helpless commoners. Mission accomplished!