(10-18-2013, 01:59 PM)IncubusManatee Wrote: How many times have you met an exceptionally well played Paladin?Â
How many times have you met an exceptionally well played Rogue?
Ask yourself these questions.Â
You can mess up on either. You can play either. But one is vastly more chosen over the other-and done bad. (In the RP sense, not the game-mechanics sense. Coming from a D&D/NWN background)
Most of the poorly played Paladins I'd out and out say were bad guys. Every Paladin I met in Wow I'd straight up say was Lawful Evil at best and More like Neutral Evil with Lawful tendencies. In D&D I've never had more arguments over alignment than stuff based on the actions of a Paladin. Â Its to the point I will not allow someone to play a Paladin unless I see a solid character outline(and this has worked out wonderfully I had a Orc penetant warrior who was shown mercy and thus took up the whole chivalric code it was pretty damned awesome.).
On the other hand.. how do you play a Rogue wrong? The Gentleman thief is well within his perview. Robinhood as well. The only "Wrong" concepts I'd ever seen for a rogue were ones who caused inter party conflict in D&D and even that wasn't so much playing the concept wrong as a concept that just didn't work with that particular group. So ultimately I'd say your question is fundimentally flawed its rather easy to fail at playing a paladin but nearly impossible to play a Rogue wrong.