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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6314976" data-attributes="member: 18">I agree that the narrow archetype fits those genres better, but the problem is that LG-only does not. I mean, for Paladins &amp; Princesses D&amp;D, Romantic Fantasy, JRPG Fantasy, and Arthurian Fantasy, they should probably be NG or &quot;Any Good&quot; (I see to recall Dragonlance's Solamnic Knights allowing non-LG alignments).I know this may seem like a minor quibble, but it was a huge deal to me when I first came to D&amp;D. I'd read books about knights and so on, and the ones I wanted to be, those truly righteous, were clearly not lawful by the then definition in D&amp;D - they would certainly break and bend unjust laws in order to do what was truly right. Nor did following the spirit of the Paladin code seem to require being lawful.But Chivalric Fantasy, where you have the character torn between the demands of duty and what he actually wants to do? That's where LG-only works well for this archetype, but for the others? Not so much. (That's ignoring all the other issues LG can cause for some players and DMs.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6314976, member: 18"] I agree that the narrow archetype fits those genres better, but the problem is that LG-only does not. I mean, for Paladins & Princesses D&D, Romantic Fantasy, JRPG Fantasy, and Arthurian Fantasy, they should probably be NG or "Any Good" (I see to recall Dragonlance's Solamnic Knights allowing non-LG alignments). I know this may seem like a minor quibble, but it was a huge deal to me when I first came to D&D. I'd read books about knights and so on, and the ones I wanted to be, those truly righteous, were clearly not lawful by the then definition in D&D - they would certainly break and bend unjust laws in order to do what was truly right. Nor did following the spirit of the Paladin code seem to require being lawful. But Chivalric Fantasy, where you have the character torn between the demands of duty and what he actually wants to do? That's where LG-only works well for this archetype, but for the others? Not so much. (That's ignoring all the other issues LG can cause for some players and DMs.) [/QUOTE]

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