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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDNFan" data-source="post: 6316106" data-attributes="member: 6776483">Again...Woooooooooooosh.Divine agency is the key difference.Whom is the paladin taking a vow to? To whom is he making a solemn Oath? His god. That is the difference. Gods are real in D&D, they have real power, and can give real spells and magical, supernatural abilities to their followers. Unless you think a paladin's aura springs from his general sense of humor? Or his lay on hands ability to cure disease and remove poison and bring the injured back from the brink of death, to be things that anyone can do, after uttering an Oath to their girlfriend or to their landlord? If such Oaths had any real power without divine agency, other than psychological ones, then there would be some very powerful people indeed. But there aren't. Fighters can't learn to Lay on Hands, and barbarians can't cast fireball. Different classes, different ways to achieve power. The paladin's way is through his god, or through some supernatural contract with a magical force of some kind. Regardless, the Oath itself is a real thing, and that which has a moral outlook embedded into it. If you violate that, whatever intelligence that understands that you took that Oath, and what it means, and chose to gave you that power, must also know when you break it, otherwise...arrr, it's just too annoying to even continue explaining this to you.I'm sorry, but I'm adding you to ignore because I just can't do it any more. Going around in circles like this. Too much time wasted. No more. I've got more appealing things to do.</blockquote>

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