DnD 2024 rules are being released under Creative Commons.
Uh huh, "removed micro-transactions" by only selling entire books instead so anyone wanting a class from a book now needs to drop $30 instead of $5, dude is super spinning this if that's how he put it. They removed micro-transactions in a transparent bid to force people to spend way more.
I would normally cheer the removal of subclasses, but I know whatever replacement their diversity hires are brewing will be 10x worse.
This was always my standard character when I'd guest star as a PC in another GM's game, to the point "oh no it's this FUCKING GUY again" whenever I showed up. I would be an incredible jackass and the challenge would be that since I had some knowledge about the MacGuffin, they'd have to put up with me until they got the info I had. And no torture, because there was always a paladin.
They get the idea from their own gayness. The archetype of the Paladin is Richard Lionheart sacrificing his fortune to fight the Saracen, not some pussy who feels bad about killing
That's when you find an excuse for the paladin to be elsewhere on some deeply important quest heavily connected to his deity. Even if you have to bend the truth a little. That way he can sincerely repent afterwards for letting himself be bamboozled by the party and claim he had no knowledge of what was taking place in his absence.
You don't even need that big an excuse.
that beyond thing was changed days if not weeks ago tho, hardly new.
I feel like the various Paladin codes and Divine fighting styles did a good job at making this distinction in 1e, just that there weren't enough of them. Like how Paladins of Torag are empowered to use deceit, do not accept surrender unless strategically advantageous, and are expected to protect their race first while Paladins of Sarenrae must accept surrender and work to redeem the wicked. The big roleplaying distinction in playing a Paladin is sticking to a strict code rather than more vague guidelines like a Cleric, after all.
A pathfinder character I theorycrafted and did a little backstory work for was an anti-paladin of Hei Feng. I felt that Hei Feng's antipaladin code would allow for play with a regular, non-evil party while still actually roleplaying Chaotic Evil pretty well. Unfortunately a game that he would fit in never materialized, but I've always loved that at least someone writing for Paizo actually cared about the differences between separate deities and their paladins/anti-paladins.
That antipaladin code is really interesting, it reads like a proper paladin code but from the mind of a deeply cruel sort of being. "Yeah, I will help the good and not use deceit all so I can revel in the slaughter."
Ultimate magus 10 sorceress 3 wizard 2 spam fireball with energy admixture energy substitution and maximize spell and that's it.
in player core 2 champions is getting causes without sanctification, one of them justice (just skinning some reports). litanies and oaths got moved into another sourcebook coming later tho.
Intradasting, I was more thinking of a druidic style of paladin, like a Green Knight deal who's dedicated to True Neutral Balance above all. I suppose to make that more interesting, they'd need to have more nature gods than just Gozreh and the Green faith.
I had a bunch of index cards with stuff written about NPCs, either generic or attached to a specific location, mini-scenarios, etc. and would flesh them out as necessary. I used to have hundreds of these things, most of which never got used, but it would make it more open world and less forcing the party into some linear thing.
