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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zarrock God of Evil" data-source="post: 269863" data-attributes="member: 2025">I think your perception of what a paladin SHOULD be is much too narrow. Basically they're no more and no less than the righteous champions of law and good and to quote the PHB: "No one, no matter how diligent, can become a paladin through practice. The nature is either within one or not, and it is not possible to gain the paladin's nature by any act of will." I see no official support of the fact that paladins need to be natural leaders or have an above average intelligence. Sure - they inspire - but they inspire through their virtues. A paladin with a 10 Charisma would still be a good paladin - an inspiration to the good cause even though is personality and magnetism itself may not be particularly inspiring. I think one of the advantages of the new alignment system and the description of the paladin is that everything is not so set in stone - so dependent on the historical archetypes. To my mind there's plenty of different ways to portray a paladin-like character correctly. To give some food for thought, I've consulted the old Complete Paladin's Handbook.The old Complete Paladin's Handbook set these as the core values of the paladin (and I expect the 3E version to be even more flexible with this):Virtues:FealtyCourtesyHonestyValorHonorand adds that the following could be considered paladin's virtues by some:HumilityGenerosityChastityCelibacyIndustry</blockquote>

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