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The Arthurian legends were very much a morality fable. Every time these knights strayed from the good and noble, they were afflicted. Lancelot was forever barred from seeing the grail; Arthur himself died as a result of his sins, via Mordred; note that this connection was not lost on medieval...

There is nothing stopping him except the fact that it is not in his nature. He's LG. People don't flip on "crazy evil" light switches, in real life or in realistic game-worlds. There's nothing stopping you from doing it, either. But you won't. Because it is not in your nature. So it's a pure...

That's a good question. For myself, there are only a couple instances where this is true. Paladin is one; druid is another. Ranger comes close, but I tend to lump them in with frontier defenders-of-civilization. Everyone else is recognized by their general role in the world: this is a fighting...

It's how the game world works. It's not an abstract; it's a concrete, observable fact. Not meta at all.

Using paladin mechanics to verify their position is indeed how we do it in my gaming group's game worlds. When possible, yes. But such people are rare in my game world, such that the any-alignment paladin will not be able to obtain the same cachet just because of their class. No one can be...

My short answer: it isn't acceptable. My long answer: I have a big problem with how druids were presented in 1e with respect to alignment. The RULES say neutral only, and yet their position in human communities, especially those of the Old Faith, leaned more good, or even in some cases, lawful...

Do you honestly feel that 1e-3.x were giving you the middle finger because they had LG-only paladins?

No, I can't, because those things apply to any cleric or even secular figure. What sets the LG paladin apart is that the mechanical restriction is the single greatest guarantor to the people of the world he inhabits that he will act justly and goodly. If we remove the alignment restriction, then...

I've never played Eberron, but I'm genuinely surprised. Maybe FR is a good fit for the "holy warriors of chivalric virtue aren't really all that special" paradigm, but Greyhawk (where I play 1e and on whose chassis I build my other-edition homebrews) definitely is not. The basic assumption of...

That is precisely the point Savage Wombat is making. These two statements belong in two VERY different games. And the assumptions of who you are as a LG paladin are very different in them, as well.

In what edition were you unable to do this RAW?

I really don't see how it's possible TO avoid it, if your intention is a clone. Look, the reason WotC didn't sue the makers of OSRIC into the ground has nothing to do with the merits of such a lawsuit; Hasbro has enough lawyers to make such a lawsuit untenable for any indie game publisher. And...

So you can prepare them, but not cast them? :p I kid. Yes, you can cast more spells. Extra prepared slots = extra spells castable.

Also, when making a character you assign a point value to each background, up to 5 per (you get 8 total IIRC). This is your skill bonus when rolling a skill check against a background. EDIT: Whoops, Evenglare posted exactly this before I refreshed! :o

Alas, they were on my "hope against all hope" list for D&D 5E.

That's pretty hyperbolic. There are no game-nazi's (in the grammar-nazi sense, not the Godwin sense) coming to enforce The One True Game Lore(tm) at your table. We're talking about what the default base assumptions of the published game should be; the version no one actually plays because once...

Heh. I can take the entire text for Frank Herbert's Dune, change all the proper names, rewrite every sentence (terribly) in my own voice, and get my butt sued off for publishing a derivative work without license from the copyright owner.

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion "We've not a moment to lose, then," says Darvus as he dismounts and begins leading his mount deeper into the woods. He looks around for a sturdy tree to tie his horse to. Darvus turns back to the group and says, "I agree with Tamarie. We should leave our...

It's just the first page. There's always a chance they can have options. TBH, I would prefer the PS tiefling be in an actual PS supplement next to the aasimar.

Oh yeah? In my campaign everyone starts the game with a death save, laying in a ditch covered with a tarp.