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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5617688" data-attributes="member: 14159">Gotta strongly disagree here.1. How does anybody know anybody is a Paladin when they first meet them?  It's not like you can read their character sheet or they have a Paladin ID Card they can pull out.  So what if they are wearing shiny armor and carrying a sword and brandishing a Holy Symbol and are convincing about it.  It could just as easily be a Fighter/Rogue (with maxed out Disguise and Bluff) or even a Warrior/Expert, as long as they were only emulating a low-level Paladin to begin with.  A Cleric with the War and Trickery domains could easily pull it off for a while as well (heavy armor, swings a sword, carries a holy symbol, good at lying, can turn undead and cast some divine spells).  Why would everybody know the details of the Paladin class so well they can pick out a fake so easily?2. Why would Paladins automatically get law enforcement powers wherever they went?  What if the faith the Paladin was a member of was not practiced, not known, or even not tolerated in the land they were in?  Why does having one level in a character class give someone special social privileges?  Do Clerics get special privileges on their own as well, what about Wizards?  Druids?  Monks?3. Detecting as Evil is not a crime in and of itself.  In all of D&D lore, the only place I can think of that had that as a rule was on Krynn. . .right before the Cataclysm (i.e. the Gods smited the whole world for the theocratic ruler being so presumptuous to make Evil alignment a crime in and of itself).  Someone can be horribly Lawful Evil and play by all the rules of society, but twist those rules to their own ends and never break a law while being quite immoral, they'd detect as very Evil to a Paladin, but they've gone out of their way over they years to scrupulously obey the law.</blockquote>

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