What specifically do you see as conflicting?
Inquistors don't trust anyone, not me members of their church and not their party. No one is above suspicion for an inquisitor so I don't see anyway an inquisitor could never lie. Thus conflicting with a paladins code of conduct.
Inquistors don't trust anyone, not me members of their church and not their party. No one is above suspicion for an inquisitor so I don't see anyway an inquisitor could never lie. Thus conflicting with a paladins code of conduct.
Not seeing it, I'm afraid. Why does my double-checking everything you tell me require me to lie to you?
If there's something I don't want you to know, I can simply say that. "I'm sorry, you don't have a Need to Know."
Hmmm...I still don't agree but I will allow, as long as he can keep up the code of conduct.
I imagine it depends a bit on the code of conduct in question and the way the player applies it.
Could be troublesome, could be easy. Probably not too different from playing a paladin/cleric, I'd say.
I'm thinking that it would simply be a classic Judge Dread style stick up the ass paladin. "I am more righteous than you and seek to impose my demonstrably-correct view of LG on you."
A nuisance, yes, but no worse than your average door-to-door missionary.
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Back in 3.5, paladins were straight up forbidden to multiclass without jumping through some major hoops. Those days are over.
He'd have to be an Inquisitor of a LG, LN, or NG deity. As for "nobody is above suspicion", that doesn't mean he has to lie. An Inquisitor's duty is to root out heresy and corruption in his own church. The people he'd be scrutinizing are the members of his own clergy, who should already know that it's his job to scrutinize them. He could tell them honestly that it's his duty not to trust them at face-value and they should understand that because they're a part of the organization that GAVE him that duty.
If they don't understand, well, that's the kind of mistake a spy posing as a clergyman would make, isn't it?
I would advise against multiclassing a paladin with an inquisitor. The reason is not that there is any conflict, but because you will not have the stats to pull it off. Unless you are rolling for stats and get incredibly lucky you are going to be weak in either class.
Also their abilities overlap a lot but you will be spreading yourself too thin. Most of the better class abilities of either class are level dependant. Combining smite evil with bane sounds cool but you would be better off with greater bane or a higher level smite. The power form both of these classes is the ability to go nova. A high level paladin smiting evil against an evil outsider is crazy. Multiclassing is going to mean that by the time you get all your stuff going the battle may be already won. Remember you only get one swift action per turn and both classes have a lot of uses for swift actions.