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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5798437" data-attributes="member: 7006">No restrictions.&nbsp; Suggestions and recommendations only.The reason being... people are going to ignore the restrictions anyway.&nbsp; We've always done it, and always will do it.&nbsp; So why bother putting in a hard and fast &quot;rule&quot;?In this day and age... many people want to play paladins for ALL the deities in whatever pantheon they are using.&nbsp; So restricting them to LG-only (even for gods that aren't LG) I think is silly.&nbsp; We're going to ignore the so-called restriction they write in regardless.&nbsp; So just acknowledge how people play the game and say &quot;The paladin is the exemplar of the holy knight.&nbsp; Normally they are Lawful Good as representation of that ideal, however, a paladin can also be the representation of whichever deity or concept they follow, and when that occurs, they will usually match the alignment of that deity/concept or be one step away.&quot;That way... those who feel the paladin should be LG only can do so... but the other folks who don't feel that limitation is necessary don't have to.It's the same reason why there's no reason to put level limits on demi-human characters, or ability score limits on females (both of which have occurred in the past).&nbsp; All they do is put restrictions on things that many of us have realized aren't actually necessary.&nbsp; DMs already put restrictions in their own games as part of campaign-building... there's no real reason for the game to do it too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5798437, member: 7006"] No restrictions. Suggestions and recommendations only. The reason being... people are going to ignore the restrictions anyway. We've always done it, and always will do it. So why bother putting in a hard and fast "rule"? In this day and age... many people want to play paladins for ALL the deities in whatever pantheon they are using. So restricting them to LG-only (even for gods that aren't LG) I think is silly. We're going to ignore the so-called restriction they write in regardless. So just acknowledge how people play the game and say "The paladin is the exemplar of the holy knight. Normally they are Lawful Good as representation of that ideal, however, a paladin can also be the representation of whichever deity or concept they follow, and when that occurs, they will usually match the alignment of that deity/concept or be one step away." That way... those who feel the paladin should be LG only can do so... but the other folks who don't feel that limitation is necessary don't have to. It's the same reason why there's no reason to put level limits on demi-human characters, or ability score limits on females (both of which have occurred in the past). All they do is put restrictions on things that many of us have realized aren't actually necessary. DMs already put restrictions in their own games as part of campaign-building... there's no real reason for the game to do it too. [/QUOTE]

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