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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 662360" data-attributes="member: 9254">Old paladins make great adventure hooks.  Pretend you're an 18th level paladin and you've reached the age where presonally smiting evil is not really that much of an option.  In previous years, you had kept the thousands of GP in items because you used them to thwart evil. What do you do with the gear?  Well, you could give it to the church but paladins are a one-man church anyway, so that's really just being lazy.  Paladins aren't lazy so you set about finding people who can use it; being a paladin you can't help but attach a quest/mission to it.  With this mental model, Paladin's don't "own" items, they are holding them for future heroes.  Of course it's very unlikely you'll give up you your "backup gear" (+2 sword, shield+1 and mithral chain+2) until you die since there's no telling when you'll be need to disuade evil, even if you can no longer smite it.</blockquote>