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[TheRocketSurgeon]

These people are making me seriously reconsider my recent decision to roll up a Paladin for my Pathfinder group.

Back in my full-on D&D geek days (during the late Middle Ages known as the '80s), I had a lawful evil cleric who was a lot of fun. I got to let out my rotten, scheming inner-son-of-a-bitch on a regular basis, and there wasn't a hell of a lot my fellow players could do about it since I was the only character in the group who could heal. Think "Iago runs a protection racket".

Shakespeare reference. Nice! 

I'm currently playing an Inquisitor, a sort of off-Paladin type who does the "dirty work" of the church (they have more magic than a Pally, but less fighting capacity like a Cleric, but they have other skills like Ranger-type tracking and a few Rogue-skills). It has been a lot of fun, but we're coming to the end of this module, so I'm thinking of whether to continue this guy to higher levels or roll up a full Pally.

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Addendum to Explain Pathfinder:

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It dawns on me that if you played in the 80s, you don't know 3rd Edition D&D, which is the basis for the Pathfinder game. Instead of THAC0, they use a system of adding all numbers together, starting with a "Base Attack Bonus" that goes up by level, at different rates, depending on the character class. It's a lot easier than THAC0 calculations; we call it the d20 system. "Warrior" types, like the Fighter, Ranger, Barbarian, and Paladin start at BAB 1 and go up by 1 at each level. When you reach BAB 6, you get a second attack, so your BAB reads 6/1. A Paladin at level 20, then, would have a BAB of 20/15/10/5, four attacks per round, of decreasing likelihood to hit. Wizards and Sorcerers (full spellcasters) get the lowest BAB progression, starting at 0, then going 1, 1, 2, 2, 3...up to a max at level 20 of 10/5. In between that are the rest of the classes, from Rogue (thief) to Cleric, and their progression goes 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7... up to 15/10/5. The Inquisitor is in that group. Depending on balancing factors like what skills they have (like a Rogue's ability to Disable Traps), they have various "spell tree" progressions. Paladins and Rangers, with all their fighting skills, have the lowest, maxing at 4th level spells that they only attain at class level 17. Next is the Bard and the Inquisitor, who max at 6th level spells (also at 17), while the Cleric and Druid can go clear up to the Wizard's level 9 spells (though they get few skills, and their spells aren't as useful in battle as those of a Wiz or Sorc). In battle, my Inquisitor functions a bit like your Cleric would have, before, as a second-line fighter, but with some healing spells and a few Rogue-like tricks he can pull. It's a jack-of-all-trades class, and very versatile but challenging to play. I like playing a religious fanatic; I've modeled him as somewhere between a young Torquemada and Rhadam Asunawa from Wheel of Time. Ironically, our Ranger in the party is played by a guy who's getting his PhD in Theology and Christian Education, and his character is an ardent atheist, while I the real-life atheist am playing a religious fanatic. We have bonded over this fact.

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