Paladin

Class Features

As a Paladin, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per paladin level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per paladin level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: All armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

You start with 200 gp, in addition to the equipment granted by your background. The following are good starting items for paladins:

• A martial weapon and a shield or two martial weapons
• Five javelins or any simple melee weapon
• A priest's pack or an explorer's pack
• Chain mail and a holy symbol

Divine Sense

^{1st-level Paladin feature}
When you finish a long rest, choose a number of creature types from the following list equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up): aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. You can always sense when a creature of one of your chosen types is within 30 feet of you, but cannot determine their number or location. As an action, you can briefly enhance your senses to learn the location and number of any creatures of your chosen types within 60 feet of you until the end of your next turn.

Within the same radius, you also detect any locations that have been consecrated or desecrated, as with the hallow spell.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.

Lay on Hands

^{1st-level Paladin feature}
Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your paladin level × 5.

As a Bonus Action, you can touch a creature and draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.

Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from your pool of healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it. You can cure multiple diseases and neutralize multiple poisons with a single use of Lay on Hands, expending hit points separately for each one.

This feature has no effect on undead and constructs.

Combat Maneuvers

^{2nd-level Paladin feature}
You gain the ability to use combat maneuvers. You gain proficiency in two combat traditions from the following list: Cavalry, Juggernaut, Teamwork, Templar. You learn two maneuvers of your choice from traditions you are proficient with.

The Paladin table shows how much focus you have to use your maneuvers of 1st degree and higher. To use one of your maneuvers, you must expend focus from your focus pool. You regain all expended focus when you finish a short or long rest. Your maneuvers show how much focus they cost. The Maneuvers Known column of the Paladin table shows when you learn more maneuvers from a tradition you are proficient with, while the Maneuver Degree column shows the highest degree you can select maneuvers from at a given level. You cannot know more maneuvers of a degree than you know of degrees below it.

Additionally, whenever you learn a new maneuver, you can choose one of the maneuvers you know and replace it with another maneuver, and whenever you finish a long rest, you can replace any maneuvers you know with maneuvers from traditions you are proficient with of the same degree over the course of 10 minutes.

Divine Smite

^{2nd-level Paladin feature}
Choose Sacred or Profane. Once you make this choice, it cannot be changed unless you change your oath.

Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack you can choose to deliver a divine smite that deals an additional 1d8 radiant (Sacred) or 1d8 necrotic (Profane) damage. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is one of the creature types you chose for Divine Sense. The amount of extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Smite Damage column of the Paladin table.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain spent uses upon finishing a long rest.

Spellcasting

^{2nd-level Paladin feature}
You have learned to draw on divine magic through meditation and prayer to cast spells as a cleric does.

Mana

The Paladin table shows how much mana you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend mana from your mana pool. You regain all expended mana when you finish a long rest. The mana costs for spells can be found on the mana cost table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

You prepare the list of paladin spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the paladin spell list. When you do so, choose a number of paladin spells equal to your Charisma modifier + half your paladin level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you can cast.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of paladin spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your paladin spells, since their power derives from the strength of your convictions. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a paladin spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your paladin spells.

Fighting Style

^{2nd-level Paladin feature}
You adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Martial Versatility

Whenever you gain a level in a class that has the Fighting Style feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another style available to your class. This change represents a shift of focus in your martial training and practice, causing you to lose the benefits of one style and gain the benefits of another style.

Sacred Oath

^{3rd-level Paladin feature}
You swear the oath that binds you as a paladin forever. Up to this time you have been in a preparatory stage, committed to the path but not yet sworn to it. Now you choose from the list of available oaths.

Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 15th, 20th, 24th, and 27th level. Those features include oath spells and the Channel Divinity feature.

Oath Spells

Each oath has a list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified in the oath description. Once you gain access to an oath spell, you always have it prepared. Oath spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain an oath spell that doesn't appear on the paladin spell list, the spell is nonetheless a paladin spell for you.

Channel Divinity

Your oath allows you to channel divine energy to fuel magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option provided by your oath explains how to use it.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which option to use. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again. Bginning at 22nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your paladin spell save DC.

Channel Divinity: Harness Divine Power

You can expend a use of your Channel Divinity to fuel your spells. As a bonus action, you touch your holy symbol, utter a prayer, and regain mana equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up). The number of times you can use this feature is based on the level you've reached in this class: 2nd level, once; 6th level, twice; and 18th level, thrice. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Divine Lessons

^{3rd-level Paladin feature}
In preparing to take your oath, you have learned a number of skills and tricks that can help you during your adventures. You gain two divine lessons of your choice. The divine lessons available to you are detailed on the Divine Lessons page. The Lessons Known column of the Paladin table shows when you learn more divine lessons. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Divine Lessons you know and replace it with another Divine Lesson that you could learn at that level.

Ability Score Improvement

^{4th-level Paladin feature}
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. In addition, you may select a single Feat you meet the prerequisites for.

You may also replace one of your skill proficiencies with a skill proficiency offered by this class at 1st level. The proficiency you replace does not need to be from this class.

Lastly, you can do one of the following, representing a shift in the interpretation of your oath:

• Replace the option you chose for your Heraldic Sermon feature with one of that feature’s other options.
• Replace the option you chose for your Inspiring Devotion feature with one of that feature’s other options.

Extra Attack

^{5th-level Paladin feature}
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 28th level in this class.

Heraldic Sermon

^{5th-level Paladin feature}
Your oath has so inspired you that your words seem to be imbued with magic when you talk about it. Choose one of the following features.

Aura

^{6th-level Paladin feature}
You are able to manifest an aura that aids you and your allies. Your aura has a radius of 10 feet, is centered on you, and you must be conscious for you and your allies to benefit from it. You can have only one of the following auras active at a time, and can change which aura is active whenever you finish a long rest.

The range of all auras increases to 20 feet at 13th level, and to 30 feet at 18th level.

Inspiring Devotion

^{9th-level Paladin feature}
You can draw upon your oath for extra assistance in social situations. Choose one of the following features.

Improved Aura

^{10th-level Paladin feature}
You gain a more powerful aura that is active alongside your basic Aura. The range of this aura is the same, and you can only have one Improved Aura active at a time. You can swap your active improved aura upon finishing a long rest.

Divine Warrior

^{11th-level Paladin feature}
Each of your strikes is infused with divine might. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage if you chose Sacred or 1d8 necrotic damage if you chose Profane.

Additionally, whenever you learn a new Divine Lesson or replace an existing one, you can choose from Cleric Signs of Faith or Marshal Lessons of War. Your Paladin levels count as Cleric or Marshal levels for the purpose of fulfilling prerequisites.

Merciful Touch

^{14th-level Paladin feature}
When you use your Lay on Hand on a creature, you can instead expend 5 Hit POInts from the healing pool to produce one of the following effects.

Celestial Alignment

^{17th-level Paladin feature}
You gain the ability to channel great power through your touch based on your alignment. As a Bonus Action, you can expend 60 hit points from your pool of healing from Lay on Hands to cast one of the following spells. You must be within 1 step of the alignment in order to use the option associated with it.

Divine Exemplar

^{20th-level Paladin feature}
Your deity constantly watches over you. Even death cannot touch you as you recover from mortal wounds in a flash of holy light, a sudden swelling of unnatural darkness, or another expression of potent divine power. When you die after being reduced to 0 hit points by a creature of one of the creature types you chose for Divine Sense, or while exemplifying the tenets of your oath, you return to life at the beginning of your next turn with half of your hit points. Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until seven days have passed.

Epic Level Paladin: Epic Ability Score Improvement

^{21st-level Paladin feature}
When you reach 21st level, and again at 25th and 29th level, you gain the benefits of an Ability Score Improvement, but your ability score increase can bring an ability score above 20, to a maximum of 24.

Epic Level Paladin: Improved Divine Sense

^{21st-level Paladin feature}
You can't be Surprised by creatures you sense with your Divine Sense, and you have Advantage on initiative when at least one hostile creature of those types is present in the combat.

Additionally, you can activate your Divine Sense as a Bonus Action, and your enhanced Divine Sense lasts for 1 minute. During this time, you know if you hear a lie told by a creature you can sense with your Divine Sense.

Epic Level Paladin: Greater Divine Warrior

^{23rd-level Paladin feature}
The damage of your Divine Warrior feature increases to 2d8 radiant damage or 2d8 necrotic damage.

Epic Level Paladin: Improved Lay on Hands

^{25th-level Paladin feature}
You can expend 10 hit points from your pool of healing to end one curse on a creature or object. Additionally, when you expend points from your Lay on Hands, you or your target gain temporary hit points equal to half the points you spent.

Epic Level Paladin: Greater Divine Smite

^{26th-level Paladin feature}
You regain the uses of your Divine Smite ability after finishing a short or long rest. Additionally, when you score a critical hit, you may use your Divine Smite without expending a use of your Divine Smite feature.

Epic Level Paladin: Divine Herald

^{29th-level Paladin feature}
When you finish a long rest, you may prepare three additional spells. These spells can be chosen from the Cleric or Paladin spell list. These spells count as Paladin spells for you.

Epic Level Paladin: Divine Champion

^{30th-level Paladin feature}
You have become a true champion of your oath. You gain the following benefits:

This page was last edited on September 08, 2024, at 10:35 PM

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