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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8800994" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>This I think depends on your view of what a paladin's role is. </p><p></p><p>Since 2e I haven't liked how narrow the paladin's role was, being just a paragon of virtue and divine justice. When 3e came out I changed paladins from being the traditional narrow role into being a holy paragon of the god he's a paladin of, so if you were a paladin of Mystra, detect evil would be replaced by detect magic and other changes to fit here theme would be made, as would the restrictions that the paladin could not break without risking a fall from grace. Alignment would have to match the paladin's god. I let the players know that I would work with them to create a unique paladin for whatever god they wanted to be a paladin of.</p><p></p><p>4e and 5e have changed paladin to more closely fit my 3e vision, so I'm more apt to view the oaths in that light.</p><p></p><p>If you hold to a more traditional view of paladins, then it makes sense that you would see it as something that is already incorporated into the base class itself. The oaths would the be more of a flavor of the traditional paragon of justice and virtue, rather than being non-traditional paragons.</p><p></p><p>I could see a Mercy Domain for clerics.</p><p></p><p>Hah! I can't stand them, which sucked for me about a month ago when my 8 year old son who thinks those are god's gift to mankind gave me one in thanks for doing something nice for him. It took me all day to eat 90% of the cookie(I didn't want to disappoint him or rebuff his generosity) and the remaining 10% disappeared after his bedtime. Chocolate chip cookies are where it's at!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8800994, member: 23751"] This I think depends on your view of what a paladin's role is. Since 2e I haven't liked how narrow the paladin's role was, being just a paragon of virtue and divine justice. When 3e came out I changed paladins from being the traditional narrow role into being a holy paragon of the god he's a paladin of, so if you were a paladin of Mystra, detect evil would be replaced by detect magic and other changes to fit here theme would be made, as would the restrictions that the paladin could not break without risking a fall from grace. Alignment would have to match the paladin's god. I let the players know that I would work with them to create a unique paladin for whatever god they wanted to be a paladin of. 4e and 5e have changed paladin to more closely fit my 3e vision, so I'm more apt to view the oaths in that light. If you hold to a more traditional view of paladins, then it makes sense that you would see it as something that is already incorporated into the base class itself. The oaths would the be more of a flavor of the traditional paragon of justice and virtue, rather than being non-traditional paragons. I could see a Mercy Domain for clerics. Hah! I can't stand them, which sucked for me about a month ago when my 8 year old son who thinks those are god's gift to mankind gave me one in thanks for doing something nice for him. It took me all day to eat 90% of the cookie(I didn't want to disappoint him or rebuff his generosity) and the remaining 10% disappeared after his bedtime. Chocolate chip cookies are where it's at! [/QUOTE]
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