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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 221769" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Hey there Reapersaurus!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Reapersaurus wrote:Quote:____________________________________________________"One question, SHARK:would you allow a Paladin in your campaign that was not a member of this Vallorean order?Not a member of ANY 'order' - just an individual who knows what's right and wrong and will fight to his death to defend others."____________________________________________________End Quote.Yes, Reapersaurus, there are paladins that exist in other cultures, in other realms, and so it would be perfectly acceptable to have a paladin in the campaign that wasn't a member of this Vallorean order.Yes, there are paladins that aren't members of any order in particular, but those paladins are still trained and supervised by members of the church. Only sophisticated urbanized cultures with highly organized religions are likely to develop the concept and standard of paladins--barbarian cultures would use different kinds of characters, obviously. Thus, in any such culture that is likely to have paladins, regardless of whether those paladins are organized into official orders of knights, the priests of the temples would still train, supervise, guide, and discipline individual paladins. Paladins don't just wake up one day and say, "I'm a paladin!" Paladins are the epitome of law, goodness, and discipline. They aren't rogues, just travelling about and choosing to do whatever they want. The individual paladin may think he knows what is right and wrong, but it isn't the individual paladin that decides what doctrine forms the understanding of what is right and what is wrong. The paladin's gods, and the paladin's church, is responsible for determining and deciding that which is right and wrong. The paladin, having received this knowledge and training, submits in holy obedience and discipline, and goes forth to vanquish evil in the name of his gods and his church, whether that religion happens to be the Vallorean pantheon, or a religion in some other culture.I knew you would love this!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I reedited it, and added some additional material from the similar article that I wrote over a year ago.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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