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From: bob@plus5.UUCP (Bob Simpson)
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Subject: Re: (Re: Religious Flaming) & Paladins
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 14:16:39 EDT
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In article <282@tilt.FUN>, chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen) writes:
> ...I claim that a Paladin is a particularly devout fighter-type who due to
> his INCREDIBLE devotion to his god/religion and his actions on behalf
> of his god/religion/church has gained a measure of favor and as a result
> command powers normally only available to the clergy of that god/religion.

	Why restrict this to fighters?  A while back John Sapienza suggested
	that the class be called "Champion" and the powers extended to other
	classes as well.  I don't have the stats, but they appeared in Alarums
	& Excursions (Did I spell that right?) ages ago.  The general
	correlations were:

		Fighter    = Paladin
		Magic-User = Magi
		Cleric     = Saint
		Bard       = Herard
	
	A quick hack would be to allow these classes to "go holy" for the
	differnce in the required xp from fighter > paladin.  For example:

	 new	increase xp
	level	required by
	  2	+    750
	  3	+  1,500
	  4	+  4,000
	  5	+  6,000
	  6	+ 10,000
	  7	+ 25,000
	  8	+ 50,000
	  9	+100,000
	 10	+200,000
	 11	+300,000
	 12+	+100,000 (and +100,000 per level thereafter)

	Of course, this would be heresy in a One True Way AD&D game...  :-)
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