With the Blackguard, why isnt the Paladin a PC

[jarlaxlecq]

With 3.5 coming out i wonder why they didn't make paladin a Prestige
class, lol the anti blackguard Any ideas why?

 

[ph34r]

Because if WotC didn't make stuff we didn't like, we wouldn't have anything to complain about!

 

[trancejeremy]

Tradition, I guess.

 

[Darkness]

I wonder if the assassin and blackguard would be core classes, in case they weren't evil...

 

[heimdall]

In 1st Edition, Assassin was a character class. "Blackguard" was written up as an NPC-class, the Anti-Paladin, in Dragon, but some DMs used it as a core class for their evil campaigns (I did). I've converted the old write-up to a 3E core class for my campaign.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Green Ronin has the Death Knight class (not PrC) in Secret College of Necromancy. It works well.

It's the same as I think of paladins. A paladin doesn't have to have proved himself and be some knight that adventured for years. He can just be someone that was divinely inspired from youth, or just selected by the fate's because of position.

Limiting it to LG is the sacred cow, but then having a generic class for all alignments doesn't work we well, and having 9 different classes seems a little silly.

 

[d3]

Limiting it to LG is the sacred cow, but then having a generic class for all alignments doesn't work we well, and having 9 different classes seems a little silly.

It would seem to me that a LG alignment is central to the Paladin class, their defining element as it were. Sacrificing one's self for the benefit of other good beings while maintaining chivalrous behaviour is the core element of the class.

However, the fact that it is a full class may be a bit of a sacred cow. Perhaps it should be switched to a prestige class, and be replaced with something more general like Green Ronin's Holy Warrior.

 

[Hardhead]

It would seem to me that a LG alignment is central to the Paladin class, their defining element as it were. Sacrificing one's self for the benefit of other good beings while maintaining chivalrous behaviour is the core element of the class.

I agree. I never understood why so many people wanted ot make them "any good" in alignment. To me, that strips the class of it's most crucial RP aspect.

 

[Tzarevitch]

What is even more bizarre is that the Holy Liberator (the CG version of the paladin) IS a Prestige Class.

Tzarevitch