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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sledged" data-source="post: 1692641" data-attributes="member: 17045">That's something I hadn't considered.  One of things I liked best about the 3E ranger is that it had no alignment restrictions.  If hadn't already made up my mind to use martial versions of the prestigious paladin and ranger, the last two posts alone would have sold me on the idea.    Which reminds me of another reason I decided to go with the prestigious paladin; I had considered allowing the UA's variant paladins, but I didn't like them because I felt they were just knock-offs of the standard paladin.  "Good and evil are not simply mirror images of each other."  I can't remember where I first read this, but it made complete sense when I did, and I suppose the same could be true about law and chaos.  I also felt that since there's already the blackguard PrC, the LE and CE paladins were just redundant.  The blackguard fills the role of anti-paladin well enough on its own.  Which only left the anarchic-paladin version, and thanks to the DotF/CD, we have the holy liberator which fills that little niche nicely.  Lastly, since holy liberator and blackguard were prestige classes, it only made sense to use the prestigious paladin instead of the base class version.</blockquote>