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Ajantis acts odd

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate (Classic)' started by Farthy, Mar 4, 2002.

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    [​IMG] He follows Helm and should therefore act neutral but lawful; as Helm is Lawful Neutral. Why is he lawful good? They should let paladins be lawful good, lawful neutral or lawful evil.
     
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    Because the ad&d&d rules say paladins can only be lawful good. And you don't have to have exactly the same alignment as your deity.
     
    Volar Blackmane, Mar 4, 2002
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    Paladins are supposed to embody all that is good and lawful. If they were not lawful good, you'd be changing quite a bit about the class. There ought to be kits or some such for variations of paladins, evil and neutral paladins.
     
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    So basically what he's sayin is that if you are not lawful good on paper and in reality, yo can kiss paladinship goodbye... thats what the D&D boss's said! So there :p
     
    Sniper, Mar 10, 2002
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    Helm is a neutral God... but I suppose neutral good then :) In FR, many paladins follow Helm, but still they are paladins and so indeed acting as Lawfull GOod, like all Paladins should.
     
    Shadowcouncil, Mar 18, 2002
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    [​IMG] It is because of the 'one-step rule' that applies to Paladins and Clerics in D&D. This means that you can have an alignment one step to the side of your patron deity, ie. in the case of Helm: Helm is Lawful Neutral, so you can go one step to either side, this means that you can be a cleric of Helm if you are Lawful Neutral (of course), Lawful Good (one step to the good side), Lawful Evil (Vice Versa) or True Neutral. Therefor a Paladin can have Helm as his patron because he just moved one step towards goodness.

    Whew, that was quite a ramble...
     
    Firestorm, Mar 29, 2002
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