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This isn't entirely true. From my experience the paladin choice options only show up if you default the char as a cleric, and then make them a paladin with multi-class after the fact. A good example of this is the druid healer. The paladin version of her dialogue only shows up if you went cleric and then paladin, and I would know since I tested it. If you went paladin and then cleric, you only get the option to reply as a cleric of your deity. At least in the case of Selune, since that was the type of paladin I wanted to run personally.

But yeah, paladin should absolutely have an optional choice of whether or not they were following a deity or not, especially when the dialogue is already in the game. It quite frankly feels sorta punishing to the player when they have to lose the 12th paladin level, especially when as I said the content is already there. It feels even more punishing when you consider that while the paladins in TFR are powered by their oath and not their faith, it wouldn't be out of character for them to still in most cases be devoted to a deity of their choosing. Hence why most deities canonically have official paladins in their ranks.

Edit: Something tells me the paladin of (insert deity) dialogue options are incomplete, and even when multi-classing they go away at least by the time of act 2. Since I arrived in the shadow-cursed land, I've not had a single [Paladin of Selune] option when speaking to anyone, just the cleric option. This was the most obvious when talking to our favorite cleric of Selune herself, since she of all people would've been expected to have options when the player was a paladin of Selune. It genuinely makes me wonder why they scrapped the system for paladins having a deity, and still allowing the player to see some of the dialogue options when the player MC as cleric and paladin. Why not completely remove them from the game entirely at that point?