Yep Larian pulled a last minute change on this one, they used to have the default ruling from the PHB, all throughout EA (3 years) up untill a month ago.... Very regrettable. Give it a couple of weeks and there will be a mod for it Im sure. Its been discussed quite a bit on the forum.
Personally I was planning on Human or Dwarf Paladin. Did a Half Orc Barb instead due to the Racial ability bonuses change. Hope they add PHB rules as an option at least.
PS: Other than that and the lack of deity choice for Paladins, Im enjoying the heck out of this game. Im not rushing act 1 though, even though I had 240 hrs in EA XD. Thankfully, there are enough new stuff in act 1 to keep it interesting nonetheless.
Yeah i am not rushing anything either, and all in all i am enjoying it. I only now just got through the goblin camp. My save is the night after . While there are things that are not true to D&D in game that is worse off, there is also stuff in game that are changes that is better then in D&D. So its a tradeoff. Like I can see a strength build monk with tavern brawler feat being exceptionally strong... literally. Though the feat should have worked on flurry of blows too, and at the moment the modifier doesn't apply to flurry of blows. I wonder if it would apply if you had dual wielder with tavern brawler if it would then work properly.
