355 – Multiclassing

Didn’t see THIS coming, didya?

BWA HA HA HA (evil DM Laugh)!

~Rob

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Horay for the Paladins!

Amusingly, I kinda already had her mentally pegged for a paladin despite being officially a fighter…

…so, is that multiclassing, paladin as a prestige class, the hammer converting her to a paladin all the way, or will she turn out to have been a paladin all along without realising what she was doing?

As for her response to “pure of heart” – as one of my gaming colleagues is fond of saying, there’s nothing in the paladin’s code about chastity. Good and honourable, yes, celibate, no.

I’m with Stardrake….kinda figured she was already a Pally.

Besides, as for “good and honorable”…my gaming groups always wandered a bit away from the classic LG Paladin type and decided that a Paladin should be the purest representation of that diety. So while a Paladin of Corellan, for example, might be truthful and honorable, a Paladin of Baal would NOT be.

By the way, if you ever get invited to a party hosted by a Paladin of Dionysus…you should accept.

…Blast it eternally, Your right. I didn’t see this coming. This is an interesting development though. The 5th party member is religious, sentient, Short… And theres a paladin in the party now. Very clever, Mr. Rob.

Yay, Becky is going to be a Pally, my favorite class 😀

Not what I expected at all. Well done.

I always looked at Paladins like Andor,…. the epitome of what that Deity wants out of sentient races,…. so if she goes Paladin of Moradin nothing requires her to be too pure in all respects,…lol

Don’t do it, Becky! Magic items that demand you make major life changes are never good news. 🙁

As far as paladins go, I always had a thing for paladins who struggle to be good, rather than those with a stick up their rears. Think of Jules at the end of Pulp Fiction “I’m trying, Ringo, I’m trying to be good.” A dude with more violent urges, who does what he can to keep himself under control. Someone who’s lived through the dark side of life, no longer naive, but who feels that the effort to be good is supremely important, perhaps more important than the results of that effort.

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My other big irk was that standard DND paladins were pretty much fine with Chaotic Good folks, but never with Lawful Evil. Just didn’t seem quite right. I can totally envision a paladin who though he believes in good, feels he must uphold law above all. A view like “While some will take advantage of gaps in the law for personal advantage, there can be no real good in society without order. Chaos and anarchy always lead to misery in the end”. And thus a paladin who can tolerate the lawful evil, and crusades against chaos.

@theBitterFig – I like that take on paladins, well said. 🙂

I don’t know about current D&D, since I am stuck in 2nd edition, :p, but then a Paladin of Helm could be NG

@theBitterFig, ever hear of the palidins of the Pale? worship Pholtus, and when they come into an area, they first cast detect chaos, and kill everyone chaotic, then they kill the evil-if they get around to it. Pholtus is LG(N) meaning he is somewhere between lawful good and lawful neutral…
Had one party get offered support from the Pale and shout hell no, they would fight Iouz on their own thank you very much…

What’s a paladin?

@Robert A paladin is a holy warrior endowed by their god with divine abilities. Click here to find out more.

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355 – Multiclassing