Supernatural ones, don’t become common until high levels. You the worst thing that generally happens is that you run away. Potentially turning Lay on Hands into a huge pile of guranteed damage.Įffects aren’t terribly common, they’re easy to mitigate, and if they affect

You can also burn this on undead creatures, Is useful for getting those last few hit points without wasting more chargesįrom your Wand of Lesser Vigor. Isn’t huge, but the ability to precisely set the amount of healing you use Paladin’s insanely good saves, and a good reason for a two-level class dip (unless you spend a feat), which forces Paladins into melee. Smite Evil is also limited to melee attacks Get very few uses per day, the damage isn’t huge, and missing wastes yourĪlready limited attempts. Use it to check potentially disguised enemies, or to peek through thinĪbout what constitutes a “normal melee attack”, so check with your DM. Paladin’s flavor involves hunting evil, this makes your life a lot easier. Paladins get a few important skills, but don’t expect to use them much.Īura of Good (Ex): This essentially never matters.ĭetect Evil (Sp): Consider so much of the Proficiencies: Heavy armor, tower shields,Īnd because Paladins are so MAD Intelligence is frequently a dump stat. The equivalent of Great Fortitude, Iron Will, and Lightning Reflexes for Even with modest Charisma, this is likely at least On top of that, Divine Grace allows them to add their Charisma bonus They have good Fortitude saves, and need bothĬonstitution and Wisdom, giving them good saves in the two most important Saves: Paladins have the best saves in the I also omit the use of “Flaws” since they allow a massive increase in power with essentially no cost to the character. Those options also tend to be wildly unbalanced and rarely receive errata. I am of the opinion that those options are intended to be limited to campaigns run in those settings, and as such they don’t really apply to a generic campaign. It’s important to note that I generally omit campaign-setting specific content.

Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.

Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.

For help identifying sourcebook abbreviations, see my Sourcebook Abbreviations Guide. Because so little of 3.5 is available on the SRD, I will attempt to tag items with a superscript indicating their book of origin. RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which tend to be more consistent than 3.5 handbooks. Multiclassing and Prestige Classes Disclaimer.Paladin very low on the class tier list, but that certainly doesn’t make Of abilities also comes with horrile MAD. Like Turn Undead, have very little function for Paladins. Lack abilities to overcome other challenges. Roles (unless they invest skill points to also serve as a Face), and they Versatility of a large spell list, Paladins typically serve purely combat The Paladin suffers a few of the same limits as a Fighter. Skill list and few skill points, but even with these limits the Paladin can Recover from damage and negative status effects. Players because they are simple to play, don’t require a ton of buildĭecisions at every level, and the Paladin’s abilities make it easy to Has a huge pile of resistance and immunities, it can heal, it can cast a few The Paladin is a fantastic class in a lot of ways.

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