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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1889278" data-attributes="member: 7240">Yes. But this is a matter of taste; people who like Faerun are people who are not especially concerned with their world making sense culturally or mythologically. I would make the case that Paladins in Faerun are no more out of place than anything else because everything in Faerun is out of place. Faerun is a fine world to play in if you don't see realistic or culturally resonant mythology or culture as important things in your game. I'm not telling you that you have to run Paladins the way I run them; I'm just saying that if you care about the kinds of things I care about, Paladins and Monks are problematic classes. Never. But that's a spurious argument. I'm not arguing about what Paladins and Monks are called. I'm arguing about what they refer to. You could use the same argument to argue that D&D halflings have nothing to do with hobbits. There is a middle ground you are missing here. If my perception is part of a shared cultural understanding of something, it has an actual reality to it beyond the inside of my head. As is abundantly evident by other posts in this thread, many people who play D&D see the Paladin as referencing the same chivalric ideal.</blockquote>