A Plethora of Paladins Alignment Is Everything to These Seven Npcs by Christopher Wood
A plethora of paladins Alignment is everything to these seven NPCs by Christopher Wood Editors introduction Night covered him as he rode through the forest, and he shivered at This article was received and accepted prior to the publication of the realization that darkness was the element of his enemy. the Unearthed Arcana volume, in which paladins were made a Aan felt his bold mount beneath him. The warhorse had served subclass of the cavalier. Thus, the article presents these variant him well in his years of service to the church, hard years of the serv- paladin subclasses as subclasses of the fighter. Of course, these ice that only a paladin can give. He rode now in that service, toward classes may be treated as separate from true paladins, since the the stronghold of Gulgazh the shadowed, the chaotic, the anti- article makes paladin a generic term for any holy warrior who paladin. Swords would be bloodied before the sun rose again. promotes the causes of his or her alignment. Anti-paladins were dealt with in the article, The Anti-Paladin, The struggle is as ancient as life itself. The two vastly diverging reprinted from DRAGON® issue #39 in the Best of DRAGON alignments, lawful good and chaotic evil, represent the truest of Magazine, Volume 2. Use of these classes as player characters is not convictions. They are the extremes. recommended, as they have not been playtested for balance and But extremes are always facets of a greater whole, and without the tend to duplicate powers from existing classes. middle, the extremes represent nothing.
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