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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 6130548" data-attributes="member: 29746">Point of disorder; the variant Paladins actually never appeared in the 1E book titled Unearthed Arcana at all. They appeared in the 3.5E book with the same title (which was a very different work). E. Gary Gygax had nothing whatsoever to do with Paladins of any alignment except Lawful Good; he didn't even do an Antipaladin. That came in an early issue of Dragon Magazine, as did variant Paladins for all nine alignments (including two versions of the True Neutral version- one that could be a PC and the other that really couldn't because they were too busy destroying anything powerful in the name of Balance).The 1E Unearthed Arcana introduced the seventh stat (Comeliness), and had the first version of the Cavalier class (which immediately changed/moved the Paladin to be a subclass of itself, rather than of the Fighter). It also introduced the Thief-Acrobat and the Hierophant Druid, as well as many very cool spells such as the original Chromatic Orb (a personal favorite of mine).I have two copies of the 1E book and one copy of the 3.5 one, so I can offer specific page references for these things if you like. The Dragon article with the variant Paladins for the seven alignments other than LG and CE is "A Plethora of Paladins" in issue 106 (February 1986; pages 45-56- cover painting is a female Paladin-looking human standing in front of a brown horse, holding an evident metallic-dragon Wyrmling perched on her left hand and an unsheathed saber/longsword in her right).</blockquote>

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