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Okay. I just looked there and it gets more involved with the specialty priests, giving them more detailed abilities and dogma, but still no ability to ignore the LG requirement of a holy sword. It did however allow for LG or CG for the specialty priests, instead of just CG. So the LG members...

That statement is not accurate. The player can only decide to take himself away from the game. He can also decide to TRY and talk half the table into going with him, but that decision is up to them, not the player who wants them to go. It may very well be that the entire table agrees with the...

Faith's and Pantheons is 3e, though. Horus-Re did not have CG paladins in there. He had paladins, but there was nothing unusual about them. The CG paladins as specialty priests is a 2e convention from Legends and Lore.

Faiths & Avatars? Edit: Never mind, I see there is also a Faith's and Pantheons. lol

You are emphasizing the wrong portion of that sentence, taking it out of context. "The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that you can spend on monsters." You don't have to use those as your budget. You can, but it's not required. And here's another one that you avoided in order to...

Warlocks, clerics and paladins have built in obligations. If you don't want those obligations to show up, play a different class. You are not required to choose a class that has such obligations built into them. I agree that warlocks should not be singled out for harsh treatment. However...

Your budget is what you the DM make it in 5e. If you budget 5000xp, then you have 5000xp. If you budget 15,000xp for the encounter, then your budget is 15,000. The threshold chart in the 5e DMG doesn't limit what you are able to budget. What's more, you are the DM. If you budget that...

I do. Nothing about a budget precludes going over on an individual encounter. The 5 rules give a suggested(not hard set) budget for the adventuring day. That does not mean that a deadly encounter can't be over the threshold by some amount. In 5e at least, it says you CAN build individual...

Perhaps you don't understand what a threshold is.

Says who?

It's not up to the player whether or not the Great Old One will be indifferent. It's only a possibility and were I wanting that to be the case, I'd get the DM on board with it prior to making the character. And if I couldn't get him on board and it was a deal breaker, I'd make something other...

Didn't NuTSR get at least some copies out? I thought they did, but maybe I'm misremembering. It's not as if I was all that invested in their products. LOL

It was in Legends and Lore in the Egyptian deity section. Edit: Found it. "Priests of Horus are, like the god’s avatar himself, paladins. Unlike the traditional characters of this class as described in the Player’s Handbook, they are only of chaotic good alignment. Thus, they are not bound by...

Worse than NuTSR?

Maybe. I don't really remember anything other than CG.

You are incorrect in that reading. The problem isn't with characters risking their lives. It's with a character who is just about healing others. That's pretty boring for most people. Most people want to risk their characters' lives while hacking down enemies, throwing fireballs, stabbing...

Seems you tripped and fell out of 1e and landed in 3e!

Holy Avengers were LG and wouldn't allow themselves to be used by a CG paladin. At least by RAW. I would have made an exception for the paladin of Horus as well.

I'm not doubting your math, but for what it's worth, my experience in 1e/2e was that rings of protection and bracers were fairly common. They also seemed fairly common in official sources and modules on NPCs and in treasure hordes.

Specialty priests were clerics generally speaking. A few were other classes, like the CG paladin specialty priest of Horus. I never found it hard to get people to play clerics. Clerics were fun as long as you weren't a healbot.