Paladins and Paladins

Has some good advice on writing decent Paladins.
(is a reblog of a blogspot, click through, it’s worth it)

A Song of Joy by Caroline Furlong

A good look at why Paladins may be Goody-Two-Shoes, but that does not make them stupid or blind fools. Click the link to learn more, readers:

Good Isn’t Stupid, or weak, or nice.

Note: Minor edits to clear up a point about the Arthurian tales.

Many years ago I had been only DMing for months when a guy I knew invited me to sit in on a game he played. He said it had a ranger, a cleric, a magic-user and two thieves. I sat with him and rolled up a paladin on my first try. I was very eager to play and described how my character rode up to the small country home they used as a base and dismounted, and introduced myself as So and So the paladin.

At that point the entire party attacked my character and killed him in a single round.

“What was that all…

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