That said, while deities are essential to clerics, they can also be fundamental to (some) paladins and monks and not having the character creation option and dialogue to reflect this would, I think, lead to a much poorer roleplaying experience for these classes. And the incremental work shouldn’t be huge as likely they could share much of the deity-specific dialogue of clerics of the same god. .
Most Paladins, not some
SCAG page 132 below virtues: "MOST Paladins in the forgotten realms, like clerics, are devoted to a particular deity."
As for Powers. This sentence below refers to devoted warriors (ideals and oaths). SCAG Paladins page 131. "...When such a warrior also has great devotion to a particular deity, that god can reward the faithful with a measure of divine power, making that person a Paladin"..
"They say he who smelt it dealt it." Sooo technically... this burnt corpse is your fault officer."
