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<blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 6129419" data-attributes="member: 73201"><p>After reading and talking to other forum goers in other forums, it reminded me of a talk I had with my table about Paladins.</p><p></p><p>As we all know there are a lot of different gods out there and with each god there are different tenets/codes/dogma that their followers adhere to, within their followers are different races who have different ideals/morals/ethics. Some are gods of vengeance, some of love, some of redemption, and some of knowledge. Every god has followers and every follower is a different person.</p><p></p><p>The reason I bring this up is to discuss a house-rule my table and I talked about when dealing with Paladins. We spoke of allowing Paladins to be of any "good" alignment not just Lawful Good, when following a good or neutral deity with good-leaning tendencies.</p><p></p><p>I think that it would open it up for much more diversity than the "Mr. Lawful Stupid" being the main paladin (the cookie-cutter a lot of people like to play) in any given adventure. </p><p></p><p>Let's face it: Paladins are mortal, they have their own idiosyncrasies, they aren't perfect, and they have flaws just like any other class or person. I've always felt that they were much too restrictive by most people's standards and that a lot of people (quite a few on some forums) believe that some small acts done (when presented with basically catch-22's) constitute the falling of said paladin if he "doesn't play his alignment" perfectly.</p><p></p><p>So my question to the rest of you is how would this effect the rest of the game if I had a Paladin of Cayden Cailean who was CG at the table? </p><p></p><p>His personality --> He'd be a happy guy, not so stuffy, he'd be a traveler who couldn't sit still, he'd love to drink, but he'd absolutely abhor slavery. One of his tenets would be to <strong>liberate</strong> slaves any time he had a chance.</p><p></p><p>Could your table abide having this kind of guy in the group who was a holy warrior? </p><p></p><p>Would this somehow unbalance the game or break it?</p><p></p><p>P.S. I did post this on another forum so that I could get additional feedback from more people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Traveon Wyvernspur, post: 6129419, member: 73201"] After reading and talking to other forum goers in other forums, it reminded me of a talk I had with my table about Paladins. As we all know there are a lot of different gods out there and with each god there are different tenets/codes/dogma that their followers adhere to, within their followers are different races who have different ideals/morals/ethics. Some are gods of vengeance, some of love, some of redemption, and some of knowledge. Every god has followers and every follower is a different person. The reason I bring this up is to discuss a house-rule my table and I talked about when dealing with Paladins. We spoke of allowing Paladins to be of any "good" alignment not just Lawful Good, when following a good or neutral deity with good-leaning tendencies. I think that it would open it up for much more diversity than the "Mr. Lawful Stupid" being the main paladin (the cookie-cutter a lot of people like to play) in any given adventure. Let's face it: Paladins are mortal, they have their own idiosyncrasies, they aren't perfect, and they have flaws just like any other class or person. I've always felt that they were much too restrictive by most people's standards and that a lot of people (quite a few on some forums) believe that some small acts done (when presented with basically catch-22's) constitute the falling of said paladin if he "doesn't play his alignment" perfectly. So my question to the rest of you is how would this effect the rest of the game if I had a Paladin of Cayden Cailean who was CG at the table? His personality --> He'd be a happy guy, not so stuffy, he'd be a traveler who couldn't sit still, he'd love to drink, but he'd absolutely abhor slavery. One of his tenets would be to [B]liberate[/B] slaves any time he had a chance. Could your table abide having this kind of guy in the group who was a holy warrior? Would this somehow unbalance the game or break it? P.S. I did post this on another forum so that I could get additional feedback from more people. [/QUOTE]
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