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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 229550" data-attributes="member: 2209">Canis,I don't have my PH in front of me but I thought in 3e paladins could be from different backgrounds and backstories, not just knights who dedicate themselves to a LG god. I thought they even made provisions for nonchurch paladins who just serve goodness. Also I thought there was enough room in the concept for people who do not seek out paladinhood but are called on to fight evil. I can see a character who does that and completes his quest not wanting to continually bear the weight of the world on his shoulders and wanting to resign from paladinhood because he doesn't want to bear the burden any longer. I don't see oathtaking as a necessary prerequisite for paladinhood.Under the rules, a LG paladin who does no evil and does not violate the code can "resign the office" and keep his powers. If circumstances place him in a position where inaction would grossly violate the code then he can lose his powers for that inaction, but as a general matter, saying I'm tired, I'm retiring should not get you stripped of your powers under the rules.Think of the hermit who goes off to the desert wastes to hide out until one day he is called upon to help out a princess in distress so he takes a young apprentice and others back on a quest against evil, and guess what, having stayed a good man, he still has his jedi, I mean paladin powers.In your campaign where to become a paladin you must swear an oath to a god and he is powering the paladin rather than the paladins adherence to the force of good, then it is fine for the god to do what he wants."resigns from Paldinhood because he didn`t want or believe he couldn`t bear the burden longer" Does not imply oathbreaking to me, however.</blockquote>

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