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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ichneumon" data-source="post: 6315739" data-attributes="member: 98772">Ever since the Lawful Good restriction was penned in that first PHB, non-LG paladins have been inevitable. The concept of the anti-paladin fascinated players from when the paladin first existed, and while this class stayed officially LG until 2008, splatbooks and Dragon articles have been more than happy to explore different archetypes of the paladin. The "Lawful Good only" restriction was never going to survive serious scrutiny, and while some players feel comfortable with only the Holy Knight to represent paladinhood, there are many fine non-Lawful Good paladin concepts out there that people want to explore. I'm all for having them available.It will be interesting to see what oaths are available. I think an Oath of Freedom would be great, even if it tends towards the more chaotic end of the scale. The blackguards could be represented by the Oath of Betrayal, which I could see errant paladins of other oaths switching to if they can't abide by their original oath (I'd have the player making this choice, rather than delivering it from on high).</blockquote>