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Halflings are insipid, even in Lord of the Rings. As for gnomes, they should be folded into dwarves.

Cleric=Sacerdos Fighter=Bellator Paladin=Eques Dei Ranger=Errator Sorcerer=Thaumaturgus Wizard=Incantator

No. It was a perfectly acceptable and economical way of displaying my contempt for an inferior setting. Why is it inferior you ask? Here are some reasons off the top of my head: A) An ineptly cobbled together, bloated pantheon of disparate gods, many of which were lifted from the Deities and...

Eberron, yes; Forgettable Realms, no.

Actually, there is no "spell memorization" in 3.x edition. Casters prepare spells in the current edition.

I definitely disagree. A paladin is not based on a "typical" medieval knight. Rather, he is based on literary figures like Galahad and Roland, as well as the historical Templars and Hospitallers (and perhaps Joan of Arc), none of whom would go a-whoring.

Someone brought this up previously: "Few have the purity..." This excerpt from the paladin description cannot be reconciled with a paladin who goes a-whoring. Quod erat demonstrandum

I agree with you, The Sigil. This character, while very interesting, is incongruous with the PHB paladin and the literary archetype on which he is based. Of course, if someone chooses to call an apple an orange in his campaign, it ultimately don't make no nevermind to me.

I try to come up with campaign specific names instead.

Complete Warrior has a ranger without spells. I do not have an opinion on whether it is good or not, though.

This makes me laugh. A reference to "Charlemagne's Paladins" can only be a reference to literature. It is a misnomer to refer to the Frankish knights of Charlemagne's day as "Charlemagne's Paladins."

Sorry, but that strikes me as completely bogus. Also, I do not understand how one could misconstrue my post as an endorsement of teetotalism.

I fail to see how dysentery has anything to do with the concept of objective morality.

According to your worldview, perhaps, but some of us (myself included) espouse the concept of objective morality. There is a difference between drinking wine during the Eucharist and being a drunkard (by the way, there is at least one religion that erroneously claims Jesus was really referring...

Not correct. The only good deity IMC is NG and as I posted previously, this character would not remain a paladin in my world.

No.

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote: "...[H]appiness is an activity of soul in accordance with perfect virtue" (Book I ch. 13) In Lives of the Philosophers VII, Diogenes Laertius wrote: "[The Stoics] say that only the morally beautiful is good..." Also, most vices are completely at odds...

I dispute this.

I would allow him IMC, but with the caveat that he would lose his powers for such behavior (perhaps to be replaced by a demon in order to lead him further into debauchery) and would be hunted by the Church if it were cognizant of his actions.

Uh-huh. When Sean Reynolds brought this up previously, the only thing Mark Plemmons disputed, as I recall, was that it reached the point of litigation. He did not dispute that there was a settlement. Thus, as far as I am concerned, it is neither a rumor nor a false accusation (although I am sure...