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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 1872621" data-attributes="member: 17969">In addition to the alignment variants Li mentions above, UA has a 15 level paladin prestige class.  Unfortunately, it's just as top heavy, it just delays min/maxing till level 6.  Even Worse, rather than having it's own spells it continues cleric advancement at every other level, so not only do you have the problem of fighters taking a few levels of paladin, now clerics can do it too.  The best paladin variant I've seen (although admittedly I don't seek them out) is the Paladin Warrior, a ten level PrC from the Warcraft RPG by Sword and Sorcery.  It's a little setting specific (both in the requirements and in the fact that it's abilities function against undead and outsiders specifically rather than evil in general), but that can be modified without much fuss.  Here's the ability breakdown:1st: Lay on hands, detect outsiders, detect undead, turn outsiders/undead2nd: Aura of courage3rd: Smite Undead/Outsider4th: Divine Health, remove disease 1/day5th: Divine Grace6th: Greater Turning, smite 2/day7th: Extra Turning8th: Banishing Strike 1/day9th: Smite 3/day10th: Power turningedit.  Oops, I initially omitted the word other in the third sentence.</blockquote>