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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6315636" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think that's one legitimate way to go, yes. It requires rethinking &quot;clerics&quot; pretty heavily. 2nd ed AD&amp;D did a bit of this. I personally think it puts a lot of pressure on the coherence of the paladin class, though, because once you go polytheist and, from the point of view of the game system, abandon the view that LG is the objectively best alignment, it becomes rather mysterious why only one set of gods has special champions.The other way of going is the 4e way, which embraces the distinction between clerics and paladins as primarily mechanical (and adds invokers into the mix) - so you get STR clerics and paladins, WIS melee clerics, CHA paladins who are mostly melee but with a bit of spell-casting, then WIS caster clerics and invokers filling the role of &quot;white wizards&quot;.I think it's a bit of an unstable combo to try and go both ways at once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6315636, member: 42582"] I think that's one legitimate way to go, yes. It requires rethinking "clerics" pretty heavily. 2nd ed AD&D did a bit of this. I personally think it puts a lot of pressure on the coherence of the paladin class, though, because once you go polytheist and, from the point of view of the game system, abandon the view that LG is the objectively best alignment, it becomes rather mysterious why only one set of gods has special champions. The other way of going is the 4e way, which embraces the distinction between clerics and paladins as primarily mechanical (and adds invokers into the mix) - so you get STR clerics and paladins, WIS melee clerics, CHA paladins who are mostly melee but with a bit of spell-casting, then WIS caster clerics and invokers filling the role of "white wizards". I think it's a bit of an unstable combo to try and go both ways at once. [/QUOTE]

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