Originally Posted by BuckettMonkey

Frankly, I don't understand what the problem is with tiefling paladin.
Since the third edition, D&D began experimenting with the paladin archetype, which led to the emergence of classes such as antipaladin (blackguard), who known to affiliate themselves with demons and serve dark, generally malevolent deities, and are described as being hated by all other races and classes that serve good.. The Fifth Edition also features "unusual" versions of the paladin, from the Oath of Conquest paladins serving the forces of the Nine Hells to the Oathbreaker who replace the previously mentioned blackguards.
So what's the problem?

Yeah I have a problem with evil paladins in general. Make them a separate class and call them blackguards. That's one thing 3rd edition definitely did better.
Basically this tiefling paladin is a special snowflake race with a special snowflake class.
The Paladin as a title was iconic of goodie two shoes, and it should have remained as such. The word "Paladin" still carries connotations of being an upstanding good person, which a tiefling is just not going to be, because that's not what they are about, for one, and for two, if they make our tiefling companion into an upstanding good person that will merely give a third exra special snowflake point at which I will just throw my hands up and murder her.
Actually scratch that, I will just be fooled by those "paladins" of Tyr and kill her.

Last edited by Eldath; 26/11/20 01:00 PM.