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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 1952355" data-attributes="member: 17596">I think there would be far fewer paladins if DMs went strictly by the book, so I have to agree with you there. Following a paladins code to the letter is a difficult thing. Just as bushido is difficult to live up to without surrendering a great deal of yourself in the process. That, however, is the essence of servitude, and that's essentially what paladins are...servants. Servants to Lawful Good deities with fairly strict ideas about how a paladin should behave...otherwise there would be no code. I think the big problem here is how people view paladins. Some DMs can interpret the essence of a paladin so strictly that they would be nearly unplayable...while others see them as little more than honest cops fighting the good fight. I just consider myself lucky none of my players ever choose paladin PCs.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>