Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
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Probably not as optimised as either as a single class but if it fits your character and your DM is happy go for it.
It is very MAD you need at least 13 in Dex, Str and Cha and you also need a decent Con. Depending on how you want to play it you then have to decide which of those you want to be mor either 13.
Sneak attack requires a ranged or finesse weapon but you can use a rapier with str and still get sneak attack
There is nothing to stop you being a paladin mainly using ranged attacks, you don't get the archery fighting style but can take defence or protection instead (or one from Tasha's), you wouldn't be able ot smite so you would be using your spell slots ot cast seplls .
Str 15 gives to access to plate for higher AC but you will be very poor at hiding (both these can be bypassed if you can get hold of mithral armor but that is up to the DM (however if your DM is happy for you to get mithral plate, he would probalby be willing ot give you +1 plate and probably +2 later on..
If you are going to reach Paladin 6 the more Charisma you have the better your aura is (this is one of the best Paldin features) as a devotion paladin you are probably lalso using charisma for sacred weapon.
From a optimising point of view I think you would be best off leaving strength at 13 and using rapier and shield.
What are your current stats? How deep do you plan on gointo Rogue? What is the character concept?
Various versions of Batman, the Dark Knight after all, fit a lot of Palladin/Rogue builds. Maybe the Shadow, actually definitely The Shadow. In FFG's Star Wars take on Jedi characters, there's a type called The Sentinel that seem to be very much up the Paladin/Rogue alley, canonically think Mace Windu with some of Obi Wan and Qui Gon's street wisdom (Windu's Vaapaad saber style is basically the smiting equivalent of lightsaber wielding, even relies on the Jedi's fury in a taboo manner). Those are the sorts who skulk the underbellies of cities. For outdoorsy I'd say less Robin Hood and more The Witcher. If the Rogue goes Mastermind, you sort of have an Oracle (Batman not Matrix) type there, which might synergies well with some of the Palladin's more charismatic effects. If the characters live in an oppressive city, freedom fighters like Neo or Morpheus from the Matrix could work as conceptual inspiration for a Rogue/Paladin. Batman had a replacement Azrael, if you wanted to go in a different direction, and the whole Bat family has different grades of Batman-ness to choose from. The Punisher could make sense too, the skills of the rogue could easily be in the training of a commando/operative type who is now on their own fighting for a more personal code in their oath, I mean, all these personalities are a bit over the top, but it's D&D,.
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So my dm is thinking about taking my current campaign past level 20 so I won’t miss out on too much and also I’m talking to him about changing subclass, what do you think oath of the watchers would go well with?
An Inquisitive would have a balance of capitalization and redundancy merged up with a Watcher Oath. Could be Batman, could be something more mystical (there were these Russian films in the early 2000s, Nightwatch and Daywatch about a high magic society in the shadows of civilization as we know it, I could easily see a rogue paladin of your concept fitting into a world like that. A sort of protect the world _by hook or by crook_ from extraplanar threats.
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If say go straight dexadin. Keep that 13 minimum in str and pump up dex with light armor. Use a rapier so you can pull off smite and sneak attack both.
Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Ranged smiting is just not a thing, hence the no consummate archer. Black Widow doesn't strike me as a Devotion paladin - the whole honesty and honor thing.
Alternatively there's Aragorn, who I've always considered more of a paladin than a ranger anyway. Go Scout archetype for the rangery flavour. Leader figure; the slightly larger than life character everybody else aspires to be like while himself is humble and at first not entirely willing to accept his destiny.
Don't really have any canonical character in mind for this option, but the Phantom archetype is very easy to foreshadow before hitting Rogue 3 and I personally love additional skill proficiencies (especially with a character that only got two of them from class and those not from the most interesting selection either). Will probably be a big contrast with that Devotion oath, but that's where the fun (and that foreshadowing) comes in.
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Ugh. Not my jam, no offense. The Netflix show really didn't help, and The Defenders couldn't make up for that. Not the most "devoted" character either (at least that's not what I think of), though that can be worked with.
I don't think I really care about where the smites come in anyway. Just riffing off of a couple of known characters that connect the ideals of the Devotion oath with the flavour a Rogue archetype might bring to the table, I'm not too concerned about making all the mechanics fit.
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Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Ranged smiting is just not a thing, hence the no consummate archer. Black Widow doesn't strike me as a Devotion paladin - the whole honesty and honor thing.
Alternatively there's Aragorn, who I've always considered more of a paladin than a ranger anyway. Go Scout archetype for the rangery flavour. Leader figure; the slightly larger than life character everybody else aspires to be like while himself is humble and at first not entirely willing to accept his destiny.
Don't really have any canonical character in mind for this option, but the Phantom archetype is very easy to foreshadow before hitting Rogue 3 and I personally love additional skill proficiencies (especially with a character that only got two of them from class and those not from the most interesting selection either). Will probably be a big contrast with that Devotion oath, but that's where the fun (and that foreshadowing) comes in.
Ya, I think story-wise the focus should be on why the character moved away from their oaths. You could always play with the Last of Their Kind trope, and rather than having them stop being a paladin 'voluntarily', have the order they belonged to wiped out -- forcing them to turn to more ruthless/less oath-y methods to survive or get vengeance or whatever. Aragorn can certainly be viewed through that lens -- Roland from the Dark Tower too.
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Multiclassing doeesn't have to be "moving away from the oath" it can simply be learning skills different from most others in order to fulfill your oath. For example when a paladin progresses from "level 3" to "level 4" they can improve their strength, or their charisma or learn one of a number of talents called feats OOC. They can instead perfect a couple of their "skills" and how to "strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction" if they believe that will help them perform their oath at least as well.
This approach allows returning to more levels of paladin without having to explain why they returned to their oath. (or how if they ar ethe last of a kind)
Ya, I think story-wise the focus should be on why the character moved away from their oaths. You could always play with the Last of Their Kind trope, and rather than having them stop being a paladin 'voluntarily', have the order they belonged to wiped out -- forcing them to turn to more ruthless/less oath-y methods to survive or get vengeance or whatever. Aragorn can certainly be viewed through that lens -- Roland from the Dark Tower too.
I wouldn't go that far myself, honestly. I don't see any need for the character to be any less devoted to their oath just because they picked up levels in the Rogue class (or any class other than Paladin, for that matter). Other class abilities can be used in service of those ideals just as well, and character without an oath can live their lives living up to the same standards as a paladin too if they want.
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Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
I guess the paladin story fits him in terms of saving the damsel in distress. But he doesn't really do paladin things like heal people, shield the innocent with his massive shield, or pray a lot.
Multiclassing doeesn't have to be "moving away from the oath" it can simply be learning skills different from most others in order to fulfill your oath.
Depends on what kind of campaign you're in. MCing specifically from an Oath of Devotion paladin to rogue would absolutely require a good story justification in my game beyond "I want some new tricks".
If it's a more power-game-y, min-max-y campaign, where you're just optimizing the build, then sure, the character's story doesn't matter.
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Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
I guess the paladin story fits him in terms of saving the damsel in distress. But he doesn't really do paladin things like heal people, shield the innocent with his massive shield, or pray a lot.
I mean, the knights who the term "paladin" originated with couldn't heal either. ;-) The Tenets of Devotion fit certain versions of Robin Hood fairly well, and others not so much - Honesty and maybe (but certainly to a lesser extent) Honor as described in the oath don't really mesh with the brigand type Robin of the Hood, but Courage, Compassion and Duty are a fairly universal fit for any version and Honesty isn't a problem for a Robin who doesn't scheme and deceive.
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There is a strong argument that Robin was actually lawful good. He was very careful who he stole from and he only started doing so because his own land was confiscated. He was also only against Prince John, whom he saw (rightly, at least from the perspective of the stories) as an usurper. He may have lived in the woods and may have been willing to use deception but otherwise is still presented as fighting to reestablish the prior status quo rather than truly fighting for personal freedoms or peasant freedoms in any modern sense.
Yes, one could see a Robin Hood type displaced knight being an Oath of the Crown Paladin, or an Oath of Devotion is King Richard's righteousness is made literal (not hard to do in settings with King with some ties to a divine right), it's perfectly feasible.
Depends on what kind of campaign you're in. MCing specifically from an Oath of Devotion paladin to rogue would absolutely require a good story justification in my game beyond "I want some new tricks".
If it's a more power-game-y, min-max-y campaign, where you're just optimizing the build, then sure, the character's story doesn't matter.
These sorts of arguments popped up a lot in a thread about MCs in general. I think the flaws in the objection are twofold: 1.) frankly, failure of imagination and particularly failure of imagination beyond 2.) some sense that a Paladin has some sort of "integrity" to an Oath that's somehow challenged by multi classing. There are many ways to pick up the Rogue's skill sets besides a criminal lifestyle. A devotion Paladin mixed with a rogue I could see a personality based on the "one good cop" type archetype, like William Somerset (now there's a Paladin name), Morgan Freeman's character in Se7en. Somerset's ideal is justice and righteousness and "goodness" tied up in the character's last line, a false paraphrase of Hemminway, "Earnest Hemmingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for' ... I agree with the second part." So a character who holds sacred virtues they recognize that the current world can not meet (a common problem in philosophy and theology of good and evil and right action), but nevertheless the character is driven to act in service of those virtues, sometimes is pretty dirty places. And like many a cavalier, Morgan Freeman's character's colleagues thought he was a sanctimonious full of himself type.
Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
There is a strong argument that Robin was actually lawful good. He was very careful who he stole from and he only started doing so because his own land was confiscated. He was also only against Prince John, whom he saw (rightly, at least from the perspective of the stories) as an usurper. He may have lived in the woods and may have been willing to use deception but otherwise is still presented as fighting to reestablish the prior status quo rather than truly fighting for personal freedoms or peasant freedoms in any modern sense.
I guess there are different depictions of the Robin Hood character. In some of them we get his backstory as semi-historical noble lord down on his luck. Others just depict him has a bold rural outlaw with high-minded ideals.
You can make an argument he follows a particular enough moral code to be considered lawful even if he breaks the laws of the land. Lawful isn't only about enforceable laws. It's also about having principles, and treating rules as rules rather than guidelines.
But it's not that he's not lawful, it's that he's chaotic. The rich take taxes from the poor and conduct a careful administration with records of all its atrocities. Robin Hood steals from the rich and just throws the coins out at the feet of the peasants along the roadside as he speeds by in his hijacked carriage. His element is surprise, not strategy.
Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
Robin did not particularly smite either, really... If you think of the smites in tech terms, Black Widow perhaps?
Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
I guess the paladin story fits him in terms of saving the damsel in distress. But he doesn't really do paladin things like heal people, shield the innocent with his massive shield, or pray a lot.
I mean, the knights who the term "paladin" originated with couldn't heal either. ;-)
The Knights Hospitallers ran castles where pilgrims could come to rest, and, if necessary, recover from plague. They might not have done a lot of what modern people would call medicine, but they helped sick people get healthy.
The Knights Hospitallers ran castles where pilgrims could come to rest, and, if necessary, recover from plague. They might not have done a lot of what modern people would call medicine, but they helped sick people get healthy.
And Robin had the hungry, wounded and presumably sick tended to in his camp in Sherwood Forest. I don't see much difference.
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So I’m thinking about multiclass going into rogue from oath of devotion paladin, anyone got good ideas that work well?
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Essentially Robin Hood, except probably not as a consummate archer. A rebel tilting at tyrants, a defender of the downtrodden, a shining beacon leading the innocent out of the dark. In game terms, aim for the Swashbuckler archetype to make the most of your charisma or Arcane Trickster if you don't want to lose out on too much spellcasting.
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Probably not as optimised as either as a single class but if it fits your character and your DM is happy go for it.
It is very MAD you need at least 13 in Dex, Str and Cha and you also need a decent Con. Depending on how you want to play it you then have to decide which of those you want to be mor either 13.
From a optimising point of view I think you would be best off leaving strength at 13 and using rapier and shield.
What are your current stats? How deep do you plan on gointo Rogue? What is the character concept?
Various versions of Batman, the Dark Knight after all, fit a lot of Palladin/Rogue builds. Maybe the Shadow, actually definitely The Shadow. In FFG's Star Wars take on Jedi characters, there's a type called The Sentinel that seem to be very much up the Paladin/Rogue alley, canonically think Mace Windu with some of Obi Wan and Qui Gon's street wisdom (Windu's Vaapaad saber style is basically the smiting equivalent of lightsaber wielding, even relies on the Jedi's fury in a taboo manner). Those are the sorts who skulk the underbellies of cities. For outdoorsy I'd say less Robin Hood and more The Witcher. If the Rogue goes Mastermind, you sort of have an Oracle (Batman not Matrix) type there, which might synergies well with some of the Palladin's more charismatic effects. If the characters live in an oppressive city, freedom fighters like Neo or Morpheus from the Matrix could work as conceptual inspiration for a Rogue/Paladin. Batman had a replacement Azrael, if you wanted to go in a different direction, and the whole Bat family has different grades of Batman-ness to choose from. The Punisher could make sense too, the skills of the rogue could easily be in the training of a commando/operative type who is now on their own fighting for a more personal code in their oath, I mean, all these personalities are a bit over the top, but it's D&D,.
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So my dm is thinking about taking my current campaign past level 20 so I won’t miss out on too much and also I’m talking to him about changing subclass, what do you think oath of the watchers would go well with?
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An Inquisitive would have a balance of capitalization and redundancy merged up with a Watcher Oath. Could be Batman, could be something more mystical (there were these Russian films in the early 2000s, Nightwatch and Daywatch about a high magic society in the shadows of civilization as we know it, I could easily see a rogue paladin of your concept fitting into a world like that. A sort of protect the world _by hook or by crook_ from extraplanar threats.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
If say go straight dexadin. Keep that 13 minimum in str and pump up dex with light armor. Use a rapier so you can pull off smite and sneak attack both.
Ranged smiting is just not a thing, hence the no consummate archer. Black Widow doesn't strike me as a Devotion paladin - the whole honesty and honor thing.
Alternatively there's Aragorn, who I've always considered more of a paladin than a ranger anyway. Go Scout archetype for the rangery flavour. Leader figure; the slightly larger than life character everybody else aspires to be like while himself is humble and at first not entirely willing to accept his destiny.
Don't really have any canonical character in mind for this option, but the Phantom archetype is very easy to foreshadow before hitting Rogue 3 and I personally love additional skill proficiencies (especially with a character that only got two of them from class and those not from the most interesting selection either). Will probably be a big contrast with that Devotion oath, but that's where the fun (and that foreshadowing) comes in.
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Ugh. Not my jam, no offense. The Netflix show really didn't help, and The Defenders couldn't make up for that. Not the most "devoted" character either (at least that's not what I think of), though that can be worked with.
I don't think I really care about where the smites come in anyway. Just riffing off of a couple of known characters that connect the ideals of the Devotion oath with the flavour a Rogue archetype might bring to the table, I'm not too concerned about making all the mechanics fit.
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Ya, I think story-wise the focus should be on why the character moved away from their oaths. You could always play with the Last of Their Kind trope, and rather than having them stop being a paladin 'voluntarily', have the order they belonged to wiped out -- forcing them to turn to more ruthless/less oath-y methods to survive or get vengeance or whatever. Aragorn can certainly be viewed through that lens -- Roland from the Dark Tower too.
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Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Multiclassing doeesn't have to be "moving away from the oath" it can simply be learning skills different from most others in order to fulfill your oath. For example when a paladin progresses from "level 3" to "level 4" they can improve their strength, or their charisma or learn one of a number of talents called feats OOC. They can instead perfect a couple of their "skills" and how to "strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction" if they believe that will help them perform their oath at least as well.
This approach allows returning to more levels of paladin without having to explain why they returned to their oath. (or how if they ar ethe last of a kind)
I wouldn't go that far myself, honestly. I don't see any need for the character to be any less devoted to their oath just because they picked up levels in the Rogue class (or any class other than Paladin, for that matter). Other class abilities can be used in service of those ideals just as well, and character without an oath can live their lives living up to the same standards as a paladin too if they want.
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Perhaps a low-level Paladin and a high-level Rogue? I don't know. I don't think there's much Paladin to him other than being good aligned. He's not even lawful good. He's chaotic good. Though I suppose it's rare for a Rogue to be lawful, so any Paladin Rogue is going to experience cognitive dissonance.
I think Robin Hood is just a Rogue who's good enough to win the friendship of a Cleric.
I guess the paladin story fits him in terms of saving the damsel in distress. But he doesn't really do paladin things like heal people, shield the innocent with his massive shield, or pray a lot.
Depends on what kind of campaign you're in. MCing specifically from an Oath of Devotion paladin to rogue would absolutely require a good story justification in my game beyond "I want some new tricks".
If it's a more power-game-y, min-max-y campaign, where you're just optimizing the build, then sure, the character's story doesn't matter.
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Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
I mean, the knights who the term "paladin" originated with couldn't heal either. ;-) The Tenets of Devotion fit certain versions of Robin Hood fairly well, and others not so much - Honesty and maybe (but certainly to a lesser extent) Honor as described in the oath don't really mesh with the brigand type Robin of the Hood, but Courage, Compassion and Duty are a fairly universal fit for any version and Honesty isn't a problem for a Robin who doesn't scheme and deceive.
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Yes, one could see a Robin Hood type displaced knight being an Oath of the Crown Paladin, or an Oath of Devotion is King Richard's righteousness is made literal (not hard to do in settings with King with some ties to a divine right), it's perfectly feasible.
These sorts of arguments popped up a lot in a thread about MCs in general. I think the flaws in the objection are twofold: 1.) frankly, failure of imagination and particularly failure of imagination beyond 2.) some sense that a Paladin has some sort of "integrity" to an Oath that's somehow challenged by multi classing. There are many ways to pick up the Rogue's skill sets besides a criminal lifestyle. A devotion Paladin mixed with a rogue I could see a personality based on the "one good cop" type archetype, like William Somerset (now there's a Paladin name), Morgan Freeman's character in Se7en. Somerset's ideal is justice and righteousness and "goodness" tied up in the character's last line, a false paraphrase of Hemminway, "Earnest Hemmingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for' ... I agree with the second part." So a character who holds sacred virtues they recognize that the current world can not meet (a common problem in philosophy and theology of good and evil and right action), but nevertheless the character is driven to act in service of those virtues, sometimes is pretty dirty places. And like many a cavalier, Morgan Freeman's character's colleagues thought he was a sanctimonious full of himself type.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I guess there are different depictions of the Robin Hood character. In some of them we get his backstory as semi-historical noble lord down on his luck. Others just depict him has a bold rural outlaw with high-minded ideals.
You can make an argument he follows a particular enough moral code to be considered lawful even if he breaks the laws of the land. Lawful isn't only about enforceable laws. It's also about having principles, and treating rules as rules rather than guidelines.
But it's not that he's not lawful, it's that he's chaotic. The rich take taxes from the poor and conduct a careful administration with records of all its atrocities. Robin Hood steals from the rich and just throws the coins out at the feet of the peasants along the roadside as he speeds by in his hijacked carriage. His element is surprise, not strategy.
The Knights Hospitallers ran castles where pilgrims could come to rest, and, if necessary, recover from plague. They might not have done a lot of what modern people would call medicine, but they helped sick people get healthy.
And Robin had the hungry, wounded and presumably sick tended to in his camp in Sherwood Forest. I don't see much difference.
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