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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wilrich" data-source="post: 2823604" data-attributes="member: 18624">An interesting discussion came up amongst my group recently and I'd be curious to see what people think.  The issue concerned the paladin class:The paladin must follow a fairly strict moral code or risk losing many of his class abilities -- the question is, is this accounted for in the way the class is balanced against the others?  That is, is a paladin who has not "fallen" slightly more powerful than the other classes (relatively and generally) because a paladin (unlike most conventional classes) runs the risk of losing their class abilities and becoming much less powerful than the other classes?  This was purely a theoretical discussion (no one is currently playing a paladin), but it did get us wondering about how (or if) such things are taken into account in the game.  The consensus we reached was that this does not appear to be taken into account, because, it seemed to us, that an "unfallen" paladin is more or less equal in power to the other classes and that this, ultimately (again b/c of the risks the paladin runs of falling), makes the paladin slightly weaker than the other classes -- who are more or less equal in power to an unfallen paladin but do not run the risk of loosing their class abilities.Thoughts?  Comments?  I'm just curious to see what people think about the topic.Thanks!</blockquote>