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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Left-handed Hummingbird" data-source="post: 598791" data-attributes="member: 268">Kamikaze Midget, That Paladins prerequisite is Lawful Good and not Chaotic Good, is flavor, I agree. But the way the Paladin is bound to this Alignment - whatever it is - is NOT flavor, IMHO.Alignment has a direct effect on the D&D World. It matters whether you're Chaotic or Lawful. Not just in the way you behave, but how the powers of D&D affect you.Thus, you might create a class similar to the Paladin but for the fact that you need to be Chaotic Good, but it doesn't change the fact that the powers you wield are Chaotic Good in themselves, and that they are granted to you only as long as you stay in that Alignment.You may houserule Alignment prerequisites out of D&D, but if you consider Alignment a question of flavor and nothing else, you have to houserule quite a lot out of D&D, IMHO.And remember, even though the rules are clear on the fact that you lose your Paladin powers when you stray from the path of Lawful Good, the rules concerning the Blackguard prestige class is a great example of how you can create rules that allow you to keep/change your powers when you change alignment by converting your Fallen Paladin-levels for special powers. There is no reason why we don't see more of this type of conversions: How about a Noble Savage-prestige class for Lawful ex-Barbarians that convert the defunct rage-powers to - I dunno - expertise bonusses or something. And I, too, agree completely with Oni. I think it would be reasonable if all the prestige classes you are able to leave also provided better rules for where such an exit would leave the character. As I suggested in my reply to Xarlen, perhaps a former Assassin should be allowed to convert some - if not all - of his Ex-Assassin levels to Rogue levels.</blockquote>

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