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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8268098" data-attributes="member: 82106">Right, Paladins, Rangers, and Monks have an absolute prohibition on leaving the allowed alignment range and will lose their class identity if they actually do change. Druids apparently EFFECTIVELY have the same thing, though it is the DMG, not the class description, which imposes that restriction. Clerics certainly will suffer worse than other characters by changing, but could continue to function, albeit they might change allegiances to a new god. I'd imagine it will be VERY difficult to convince said god or its followers to grant them spells beyond level 3!Thieves and Assassins are much more ambiguous. While the PHB says what their alignments 'are', it doesn't contain any 'lose your class benefits' verbiage. Nor does the DMG address this. I mean, presumably a lawful good thief would run into some obvious impediments, but a lot of his abilities don't seem INHERENTLY evil. I would think you could still practice these things as a lawful or chaotic good PC. You might need to make up for past misdeeds, deal with unsavory associates, etc. Assassins have a whole extra problem in that their one class special ability seems to be rather 'evil', OTOH you can always argue that ganking evil dudes by whatever means is not exactly the most vile of all acts... In any case the whole 'assassination power' is a pretty oddball and hard to incorporate ability in the first place, and seems vastly more appropriate as a way to adjudicate NPC assassination missions than anything else. It is pretty unclear how you would even use it in normal play. If it was me, I would rule that thieves and assassins retain their class abilities, but they obviously have to live by their new alignments, and that could be pretty tough. TBH I'm not sure how you would enforce the other interpretation, that it is simply impossible to change your alignment if you are a member of these classes, as that would conflict with RP.</blockquote>

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