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Playing a paladin is weird and periodically confusing.
For one thing, I have to remember more rules at one time than usual -- I've played spellcasters, and I've played melee-heavy characters, but I've never played a melee-heavy character who could also periodically cast spells. Timing issues are stressing me out. (Fortunately, I have exactly one spell so far. I have a few levels to figure things out before it becomes a real issue.)
Because my gaming group, like most other gaming groups, thinks paladins as written are kind of stupid, I have a little more freedom in playing the character than the actual rules call for. My character is, in fact, a nun (the setting has nuns, and it specifies that they're mostly paladins, and when I saw that in the book I got very excited and demanded to play a nun), and as such has nunly obligations in addition to standard LG paladin obligations, which fits in better with my group than a "standard" paladin would, since we're playing a city-based game and everyone else has actual jobs as well (the rogues are locksmiths! They have a store and everything! It makes it a lot easier to be a paladin in a party with two rogues when they're legitimate locksmiths!).
The main thing I'm trying to do is play my character as LG, but not as Lawful Douchebag or There's-A-Giant-Stick-In-My-Butt Good (or, worse yet, There's-A-Giant-Stick-In-My-Butt Douchebag), which are the two standard paladin pitfalls. My character is a nun, yes, and was also raised by nuns, but she's also an actual human in her early 20s who had a fairly standard adolescence and may or may not have jumped the nunnery fence on a regular basis (a point on which she takes the Fifth. Or would, if there was a Fifth Amendment in this setting).
Next level I get a horse! (Although actually I'm trading the horse in for a different set of benefits, because I live in the city and can just take a damn cab if I'm in that much of a hurry.) Maybe also an actual usable mini if Zack ever finishes painting it! It's exciting!
Because my gaming group, like most other gaming groups, thinks paladins as written are kind of stupid, I have a little more freedom in playing the character than the actual rules call for. My character is, in fact, a nun (the setting has nuns, and it specifies that they're mostly paladins, and when I saw that in the book I got very excited and demanded to play a nun), and as such has nunly obligations in addition to standard LG paladin obligations, which fits in better with my group than a "standard" paladin would, since we're playing a city-based game and everyone else has actual jobs as well (the rogues are locksmiths! They have a store and everything! It makes it a lot easier to be a paladin in a party with two rogues when they're legitimate locksmiths!).
The main thing I'm trying to do is play my character as LG, but not as Lawful Douchebag or There's-A-Giant-Stick-In-My-Butt Good (or, worse yet, There's-A-Giant-Stick-In-My-Butt Douchebag), which are the two standard paladin pitfalls. My character is a nun, yes, and was also raised by nuns, but she's also an actual human in her early 20s who had a fairly standard adolescence and may or may not have jumped the nunnery fence on a regular basis (a point on which she takes the Fifth. Or would, if there was a Fifth Amendment in this setting).
Next level I get a horse! (Although actually I'm trading the horse in for a different set of benefits, because I live in the city and can just take a damn cab if I'm in that much of a hurry.) Maybe also an actual usable mini if Zack ever finishes painting it! It's exciting!