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[reldnahkram]

I've had this perverse desire all night to make (and maybe find a place to play) an Orcish Paladin. But again, that's just a perverse desire, I'm pretty sure I know what I want to do with my next character. Someone should run a one or a few shot during senior week (hint-hint).

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[deathbysnusnu.livejournal.com]

There's actually a very particular place for them in Eberron... the orcs of the Demon Wastes, who serve something similar to the Silver Flame and do a lot to keep the denizens of the great canyon network called the Labyrinth in check, have paladins among them.

[carnap.livejournal.com]

Orcish paladin? Go you!

Personally, what I really want to do is play an orcish wizard. . .

[kid-prufrock.livejournal.com]

But, but ... -2 to Cha! And Wis!

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but you make up for that with the +4 Str. And by forgetting completely about Int. You don't really need skills. And it'd be entertaining to have a character who wasn't as intelligent as his horse.

[kid-prufrock.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Strength helps. Note that all paladins should forget completely about Int — since all of the other five ability scores either directly impact a paladin's combat prowess or class abilities, you absolutely have to dump where you can, and "where you can" here means Int.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Right. The way I see it, Cha and Wis are the most important, followed closely by Con. Str and Dex should be middling/above average, if possible, and Int should be non-zero. The feasibility of this depends on the DM and how you're generating, shortly after having this idea, I rolled a 17/15/14/13/12/8, which is probably too strong for most campaigns, but about the kind of roll you'd want to pull this off.

[deathbysnusnu.livejournal.com]

Dex is 12 at most. You wear heavy armor. If you're talking about a paladin who already suffers Wis and Cha penalties, you absolutely have to do it. End of story.