#I've been wearing clown makeup on this matter for years. truly delusional

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A thing about my D&D experiences is that every group I've ever been in has been so laser focused on the godly servant paladin that BG3 is the first thing to force me to accept that paladins are not only just magical girls in 5e, they have always been magical girls. Believing really hard is all it has ever taken

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#truly went years of my life resenting 5e for 'changing' the god requirements when that in fact was not in any edition I'd played #it's not even in the original 1975 pre-AD&D paladin publication! it's been oaths and the power of heart the whole time! #I've been wearing clown makeup on this matter for years. truly delusional #I was raised with 3.5 and do you know what the literal first fucking sentence in the religion section of paladin is in the PHB #.'A paladin need not devote herself to a single deity- devotion to righteousness is enough.' #wow #anyway love this for kasander faerun's strongest atheist. they are like a little anime girl. in a nonbinary way that isn't a girl at all. #slowly but surely adding more magical girl themes to the durge playlist

I played 3.5 since age 8, when my dad picked it up figuring it was more kid friendly than the 1e AD&D he'd originally set me and my then 6 year old sibling up with for our family campaign.

A thing about my D&D experiences is that every group I've ever been in has been so laser focused on the godly servant paladin that BG3 is the first thing to force me to accept that paladins are not only just magical girls in 5e, they have always been magical girls. Believing really hard is all it has ever taken