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<blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 5938633" data-attributes="member: 1473">Hmmm. No, not to me. I see the breakdown sort of like this:Cleric - requires investiture into a church, by own choicePaladin - may or may not be member of an order of knighthood but is not an invested priest, dedicates himself to a god or gods or holy cause by own choiceFavored Soul/Oracle/Invoker/whatever you want to call it - chosen by the gods whether or not she likes itI think it is a very important part of the paladin's 'thing' that they choose to devote themselves to some specific god or cause. The code of conduct aspect becomes meaningless if they're forced into it rather than choosing it. They're a divine class, that means gods get involved to me, whether directly (I am a Paladin of Pelor) or indirectly (I am dedicated to the ideal of Freedom, so Tritherion is giving me my power anyway.)You may glean from this that I prefer Paladins as a more general holy warrior catch-all rather than LG only. That in itself is a core design point that probably has to be hashed out and decided one way or another at WotC before they ever even get into the class ability design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IanB, post: 5938633, member: 1473"] Hmmm. No, not to me. I see the breakdown sort of like this: Cleric - requires investiture into a church, by own choice Paladin - may or may not be member of an order of knighthood but is not an invested priest, dedicates himself to a god or gods or holy cause by own choice Favored Soul/Oracle/Invoker/whatever you want to call it - chosen by the gods whether or not she likes it I think it is a very important part of the paladin's 'thing' that they choose to devote themselves to some specific god or cause. The code of conduct aspect becomes meaningless if they're forced into it rather than choosing it. They're a divine class, that means gods get involved to me, whether directly (I am a Paladin of Pelor) or indirectly (I am dedicated to the ideal of Freedom, so Tritherion is giving me my power anyway.) You may glean from this that I prefer Paladins as a more general holy warrior catch-all rather than LG only. That in itself is a core design point that probably has to be hashed out and decided one way or another at WotC before they ever even get into the class ability design. [/QUOTE]

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