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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5860579" data-attributes="member: 92511">Personally, I like paladins having to be Lawful Good. But am open to the idea of "any Lawful" to allow for LE and LN sorts.I also insist that paladins in my games are religious orders, tied to a temple and god. Thus, naturally, only LG, LN and LE deities are able to have paladins at all.Since, from what we are hearing, the use of Alignment at all in 5e is going to be a matter of options. 1) Whether to have ALignment or not in the first place and 2)If you do want alignment in your game, then are you going to use the traditional AD&D 9-pt., the 4e 5-pt or the OD&D 3-pt.So I don't hold out a lot of hope for alignment restrictions on paladins...or any other class for that matter.My take has always been that while Paladins are gifted with divine "powers" they are still a sub-class of the Fighter and do not in my games receive spellcasting abilities. So, for all of the paladin/cleric/priest jabber of later, in my ideal 5e version:The Paladin is the divine Non-caster, all fighting skill with no spells but granted/gifted powers.The Cleric is, well, the cleric. The "middle man", fighting skill and spell casting and some "gifted powers" (like Turn Undead or Specialty priest stuff).The Priest would be the divine-caster, no fighting skill, all spells, all the time and granted/gifted powers (i.e. Priests should be able to Turn Undead too, possibly more effectively than Clerics and similar command/defense against demons and such like the original paladin, and receive more/better/bigger specialty priest powers).But as to the original post: No, I don't think we will see a set restriction like LG or high Cha (I don't think, in fact there will be any ability minimums for any class or even options thereof anywhere in 5e). But there will be, I expect, the optional module with Alignment. That if you are going to use Alignment in your games, the DM should feel free to apply such restrictions...but again, not necessarily/optionally.EDIT PS: I DO think the paldin should be required to adhere to chivalric ideals, or at least general ideals like "honor" and/or "valor", no matter what their alignment, if any. It's kinda part and parcel of the flavor of the paladin. Otherwise their just a fighter with divine powers or a cleric with a sword. But again, I think the incorporating of such ideals/codes/flavor won't be built in to the class, but presented as a module for optional use./END EDIT PS--SD</blockquote>

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