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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2642220" data-attributes="member: 707">Yes...and...?&nbsp; Do you believe that the fact that the rules don't state &quot;a paladin's powers can be taken away by his god, if he follows one&quot; thereby proves that paladins are beyond the power of the god they serve (if they do indeed serve one,) to judge or censure?&nbsp; Extending that logic, do you believe that, by the rules, the gods only have those powers that have been explicitly granted to them in the core rulebooks?If so, it would seem the gods can do nothing but censure their clerics, since nothing else has been explicitly allowed them.Or, one could decide that the core rulebooks, despite making specific mention of a particular purview of divinity, largely leave the boundaries of divine power undefined, precisely because it is the place of the DM to do so.&nbsp; And further, one might decide that the lack of such specifics is not an indication of an &quot;unwritten rule&quot; disempowering divinities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 2642220, member: 707"] Yes...and...? Do you believe that the fact that the rules don't state "a paladin's powers can be taken away by his god, if he follows one" thereby proves that paladins are beyond the power of the god they serve (if they do indeed serve one,) to judge or censure? Extending that logic, do you believe that, [i]by the rules[/i], the gods only have those powers that have been explicitly granted to them in the core rulebooks? If so, it would seem the gods can do nothing [i]but[/i] censure their clerics, since nothing else has been explicitly allowed them. Or, one could decide that the core rulebooks, despite making specific mention of a particular purview of divinity, largely leave the boundaries of divine power undefined, precisely because it is the place of the DM to do so. And further, one might decide that the lack of such specifics is not an indication of an "unwritten rule" disempowering divinities. [/QUOTE]

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