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<blockquote data-quote="Morlock" data-source="post: 6348806" data-attributes="member: 6776981"><p>Paladins and alignment is easily and properly house-ruled: Paladins are LG. There, done. I'd add "human, elf, or half-elf only" too, because I'm a bigot. I just don't see the stunty-race Paladin thing, and orcs and half-orcs? Uhm, no.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nope! Thief, Assassin, Barbarian,[fill in evil class here], there are plenty of appropriate places to put orcish character art. It's fine on the cover of Dragon or whatever, but not in the PHB as the first, archetypical illustration.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To my mind, alignment reflects action, not thought. And I think of Paladin as a very strict class, one where backsliders can observe from afar and do their striving as fighters.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I do have that much room for interpretation in the Paladin; his LG need not be everyone else's LG. Lawful changes from one jurisdiction to the next and I don't think the Paladin (or any other LG character) need or should change along with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the burn spell slots on class abilities thing is an inspired way to let people play spell-less versions of spellcasting classes. It would be nifty to seal the deal with an extra crumb or two for characters <em>incapable</em> of using those slots on spells, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morlock, post: 6348806, member: 6776981"] Paladins and alignment is easily and properly house-ruled: Paladins are LG. There, done. I'd add "human, elf, or half-elf only" too, because I'm a bigot. I just don't see the stunty-race Paladin thing, and orcs and half-orcs? Uhm, no. Nope! Thief, Assassin, Barbarian,[fill in evil class here], there are plenty of appropriate places to put orcish character art. It's fine on the cover of Dragon or whatever, but not in the PHB as the first, archetypical illustration. To my mind, alignment reflects action, not thought. And I think of Paladin as a very strict class, one where backsliders can observe from afar and do their striving as fighters. I do have that much room for interpretation in the Paladin; his LG need not be everyone else's LG. Lawful changes from one jurisdiction to the next and I don't think the Paladin (or any other LG character) need or should change along with. I think the burn spell slots on class abilities thing is an inspired way to let people play spell-less versions of spellcasting classes. It would be nifty to seal the deal with an extra crumb or two for characters [i]incapable[/i] of using those slots on spells, though. [/QUOTE]
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