Do You Get Upset When Other Players Want To Play A Tier 1 Class?

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Look, sometimes you want to play a Dwarf paladin because it sounds fun and there is no reason a dwarf could not become one lorewise, even though their charisma is awful.

That doesn't mean the dwarf paladin's charisma should be 8 either. Sub-optimal is not inherently a bad thing, but you need competency. If using Point Buy it doesn't cost the player anything. Using Pathfinder numbers, non dwarf paladins might pay 10 for 16 CH and 5 for 14 CO. A dwarf paladin buys the same thing and gets 14 CH 16 CO as a result because of racial modifiers. A 14 CH is decent considering the CH penalty. Using 25 Point Buy he probably bought 16 ST for a final array of ST 16 DX 10 CO 16 IN 10 WI 12 CH 14, which is not terrible for a paladin.