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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 1842983" data-attributes="member: 360">Paladins don't need to be commonplace for people to have a good idea of what they can do. There just need to be enough of them that the common people know they are real, not just legends.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think if that's the published guideline, WW ought to rework it and tone things down a lot. That means there's six vampires for every player in the NFL, nearly 30,000 vampires in the US, and 600,000 vampires in quasi-early 21st-century earth.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, I had a paladin who was a member of a very specific knightly order, which had specific dress code. Her order was an arm of the lawful good church that was the state religion in her native country. If she was &quot;in uniform&quot; -- and she usually was -- then she was pretty much walking around wearing a neon sign that said &quot;paladin&quot; to anyone who recognized the &quot;uniform&quot; -- pretty much anyone from her home country, or any other educated or well-travelled person. If something like this doesn't exist in the game world Castellan's playing in, then it's much more difficult to impersonate a paladin.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one's going to use divinations or detection spells if he's sufficiently good at the act. And I can't see deities taking a direct hand in things unless he's causing serious problems for the church. Even then, in settings with more remote deities (like Eberron), or deities that don't care much about their churches one way or the other, deities still might not step in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 1842983, member: 360"] Paladins don't need to be commonplace for people to have a good idea of what they can do. There just need to be enough of them that the common people know they are real, not just legends. I think if that's the published guideline, WW ought to rework it and tone things down a lot. That means there's six vampires for every player in the NFL, nearly 30,000 vampires in the US, and 600,000 vampires in quasi-early 21st-century earth. Well, I had a paladin who was a member of a very specific knightly order, which had specific dress code. Her order was an arm of the lawful good church that was the state religion in her native country. If she was "in uniform" -- and she usually was -- then she was pretty much walking around wearing a neon sign that said "paladin" to anyone who recognized the "uniform" -- pretty much anyone from her home country, or any other educated or well-travelled person. If something like this doesn't exist in the game world Castellan's playing in, then it's much more difficult to impersonate a paladin. No one's going to use divinations or detection spells if he's sufficiently good at the act. And I can't see deities taking a direct hand in things unless he's causing serious problems for the church. Even then, in settings with more remote deities (like Eberron), or deities that don't care much about their churches one way or the other, deities still might not step in. [/QUOTE]

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