Fall Paladin, Fall!

[RNightstalker]

It is, sadly, kind of common, because a lot of DMs like imposing their views of how a character should be played on the players.

I've been here for around 3 years, and it's scarily common to see players complaining about DMs railroading them into a character-changing choice. And that's with the game at its current low-population state. I find it hard to imagine how many people got scammed by bad DMs back in the 2000s when 3.5 was bustling with players.

You definitely should never force a change into a player, but them playing clerics or paladins or crusaders or whatever means they also gotta show their faith, so it's a balance.

You said it dude.