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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 880176" data-attributes="member: 8158">Something's the same until it changes. Ranger's used to have to be good-aligned, druids had to be true neutral. Then the boys at WotC wised-up and realized that tight alignment restrictions make for dull, cookie-cutter classes...except with the paladin. Oh, there are some pretty darn evil causes out there that have always had zealous champions (q.v. "Spanish Inquisition", "Reign of Terror", "Final Solution"). All you really need to be a champion is an ideal a designated enemy (enemies) of that ideal.A blackquard can be aptly labeled a champion of darkness, death, taking candy away from small children, etc. And a chaotic good paladin can be a champion of liberation from oppression.As for historical references to paladins, WotC designers have maintained on many an occasion (and TSR before them), D&D classes like paladins, bards, druids, and rangers are just archetypes loosely based on their inspirations.</blockquote>