Re: what is it about angels?

"psychohist" <psychohist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I agree with you that part of what Mary is seeing here is a clash
> between a style which allows the characters to figure out their own
> ethics and morals and a system with predefined alignments.  That said,
> given that the system has predefined alignments, I think the angel is
> fulfilling itself perfectly:  it is forcefully reminding the player
> characters of what those alignments are, in a way the player
> characters can't ignore.

I think Mary's example points out the reason Paladins as a whole are
rather 
worthless in D&D in their traditional role. The designers decided (rightly

it seems in many cases) that even the clearest ethical and moral 
restrictions on the class would be ignored. That being the case, they at 
best could only be as powerful as other cl*****. At worst, weaker so that 
problems like this wouldn't show up in the game.

I wish they had dropped them completely.