Well, I'd love to play a paladin, but somehow I don't think thats what this DM is going for - he HATES paladins and clerics with a passion bordering on insanity.  I might just do it anyway 

.  As a side note, I'm about as lawful good as one can be, I could go around town poisoning children and i MIGHT be lawful neutral after 100 died.  My character was a mind flayer, lawful evil.  He died to save another party member, one who'd accually been very hostile to him.  Came back as an elf thanks to a wierd magical effect in Undermountain.  Illilsene would NOT be pleased (he died lawful good mind flayer).