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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 600688" data-attributes="member: 9249">Start with the Code. It will flesh out the specifics of what Lawful Good means to your character, and give you guidelines to go by. Good examples of ready made codes are the knightly code from Dragonheart (or any other movie that spells it out), the Bushido code, or the Nine Noble Virtues of modern Asatru. Paladins are allowed to have flaws-- the most common flaws are pride and intolerance, which is the classic Lawful Stupid Paladin. As a Paladin, you'll probably have high Wisdom and Charisma-- you should be an empathic, basically likable person.As a Paladin of Heironeous, you'll probably want to fit into the Knight in Shining Armor stereotype-- unless you have some better, more compelling image of your character to work with. There's plenty of knightly warriors in fantasy fiction to give you ideas, there.For a nonstandard Paladin, you could avoid the idea of nobility or knighthood, and be a peasant Paladin. You'd probably start with less powerful weapons and little or no armor. You'd be more humble, but no less determined to right wrongs. Defenders of the Faith has an organization called Justice Blade, which is a group of atypical Paladins.You might also want to look at Fighter or Cleric-based Prestige Classes, for ideas of what to aspire to. That will help shape your Paladin's personality considerably. Also, it will help you avoid the terrible, mind-numbing boredom of upper-level Paldinhood, should you be so lucky as to reach those levels. If your DM allows multiclassed Paladins, there are several Core classes that can also help define your Paladin and make him stand out. A couple levels of Monk would make for a very nontraditional Paladin, while Sorceror adds some arcane might to your crusade for justice. Fighter enhances your natural fighting ability, or Cleric can bring you closer to your god-- as well as improving your spellcasting and undead abilities, without too badly impacting your combat ability. (Picking the War domain gives you Weapon Focus for free, which makes the first level not cost you any combat ability at all.)</blockquote>

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