Inner Sea Combat-Iroran Paladin Woes

[drbrain]

This is a thread for all those that are bummed about the Iroran Paladin archetype from Inner Sea Combat being unable to build into Champion of Irori.

For those that don't know, Champion of Irori is a prestige class that blends Monk and Paladin. It requires Smite Evil from Paladin and Still Mind from Monk, among other things, as prerequisites. Unfortunately, the new Paladin archetype (Iroran Paladin, which adds some monk-like attributes to the Paladin class and links to the same god as the Prestige Class) that should fit into this theme completely shuts you out of that Prestige Class, as it replaces Smite Evil :(

Aside from reaching out for solidarity, I'd love to know the reasoning behind this. Ideally, someone official will see this and answer, but in absence of that, if anyone with better grasp of the rules than I have could tell me why this combination would be frowned upon, please enlighten me.

Hopefully, if enough Brothers and Sisters of Irori can stand and be heard, we could get some errata maybe? A kung fu Paladin can dream, can't he? ;)

[Joseph Wilson]

Response from the archetype's designer on the product discussion page: link

[Insain Dragoon]

There are worst woes to be had from Inner Sea Combat. Ioran Paladin is fuctional and able to work at high levels. Most archetypes from the book can't even claim that. SpellScar Drifter? Can't even challenge with his gun. Grapple Rogue? The other rogue archetypes? The fire mounted barb?