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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaltab" data-source="post: 9360363" data-attributes="member: 6775806">While I understand the need to avoid turning paladins into colonizers or racial holy warriors, I'm not sure your analysis is quite accurate. the original 'Paladins' as best I can tell are 12th century legendary figures placed in the 8th Century and primarily associated with battles in and around France. There's a story of them going to Jerusalem, though not to fight in the Crusades but to retrieve something stolen by a giant.As for the other baggage, I think D&D has already been de-tangling itself from it for years. Gygax hasn't been in the picture since 1989 so his horrid opinions on alignment aren't terribly relevant. Furthermore, in 5E they're no longer required to be lawful good or even to serve a god. Their Divine Sense doesn't detect the alignment of mortal creatures, just the presence of extra-planar creatures. And since there are non-good celestials and non-evil undead and fiends in more recent books, it also doesn't actually reveal alignment at all, just creature type.I'm sorry if this isn't quite + enough, but this is my best attempt to engage with the topic.</blockquote>