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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grover Cleaveland" data-source="post: 2652220" data-attributes="member: 34932">Naturally it's an exception when beings who are made of pure good, evil, law, balance, and/or chaos change their alignments -  it's an event of similar magnitude to a water elemental becoming a pyromancer. This doesn't mean they have no free will (to the extent of not even being able to have class levels!), only that they behave according to their natures unless given a profound reason not to. Certainly, there's nothing inherit in the nature of evil that would prevent a arcanaloth from learning more about sorcery or a demon from becoming a cultist of Demogorgon - in fact, their natures demand it. I think the option of giving class levels to all sentient creatures is one of the best features of 3rd edition.A being of utter chaos who succumbs to the temptations of law (for example) is going to be one in a million, but the fact that it's possible at all indicates that they have the freedom of choice, even if it is normally incomprehensible for them to exercise it in such a way. If not, they'd be incorruptible, and that's clearly not the case. Baalzebul was a fallen archon before he was transformed into a baatezu.The rules clearly state that creatures with the "always" designator may change alignment, although this is unique or rare. There are also plenty of examples of fiends and celestials with class levels in the books, so your position is really indefensible except as a quirky personal variant.</blockquote>

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