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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Castellan" data-source="post: 1841767" data-attributes="member: 639">I understand your concern, but is this not the purpose of a con-man? To take advantage of stereotypes?From my point of view, I don't think I can do everything a paladin could do, and therefore, it will require me to come up with a "code of honor" and and explanation of why things are as they are for me.I can't have a special mount (all bluffing aside) -- I certainly can't call on it to appear next to me per the paladin rules. Why? Perhaps it's not a part of my "faith," or maybe I feel that it is a sacrifice I've "chosen" to make to impart humility on myself?I think a true flim-flam artist will start with stereotypes and work backward to the features he can successfully mimic. He'll have to come up with some pretty compelling reasons why he doesn't have some of those stereotypical features. But, then you've created a "paladin" who may seem even more real, since he's more unique.If the d20 rules have taught us anything, it's that there exists a plethora of options for your characters, and (even just sticking to WotC stuff) creating a variant of the class is natural. I'm looking for a way to incorporate the vast array of skills, feats, and class abilities to approximate someone of honor so that I can lie, cheat, and steal my way through life.Besides, who's to say that this character wouldn't go on a tirade whenever anyone asks, "What do you mean you can't Lay on Hands?"The fact is, in medieval times, the average person probably assigned a generic set of attributes to knights. It was up to the individual to confirm or deny the preconceptions of those people.I'm loving the ideas. Please, give me more!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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