Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
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There are people on Reddit that repeatedly say “Deus Vult” anytime paladins are brought up. When paladins had the ability to detect evil at will, them being zealous murderhobos that kill anyone that detects as evil became a stereotype. Like I said, paladins are often depicted in armor based off the Knights Templar. According to Gygax, they’re supposed to kill all evil. Not to mention the existence of fallen paladins/oathbreakers that make deals with demons and that medieval root (the Knights Templar being accused of abandoning God and worshipping Baphomet).I know this is a + thread, but I think this might be a "you" problem. You've read literature that simply isn't associated with how people play DnD paladins and now your conflating the two as one and the same.
The people on reddit are a minority, are you often playing in games where this sort of stuff comes up because I'm not, I've never seen one of these bloodthirsty paladins because the DnD version of a paladin doesn't have much in common with these medieval paladins that you're worried about, especially not the current version of DnD. It really does seem like you've read some literature that isn't really relevant to how paladins are typically played in DnD and are now making it seem like they represent this horrific evil when they really don't.There are people on Reddit that repeatedly say “Deus Vult” anytime paladins are brought up. When paladins had the ability to detect evil at will, them being zealous murderhobos that kill anyone that detects as evil became a stereotype. Like I said, paladins are often depicted in armor based off the Knights Templar. According to Gygax, they’re supposed to kill all evil. Not to mention the existence of fallen paladins/oathbreakers that make deals with demons and that medieval root (the Knights Templar being accused of abandoning God and worshipping Baphomet).
If you don’t agree with the premise of the thread, you don’t have to engage.