QUICK BUILD

You can make a Paladin quickly by following these suggestions. First make strength your highest ability score. Second, make Charima your next highest ability score followed by Constitution. Lastly choose the noble background.

Class Features

As a Paladin, you gain the following class features

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• Chain mail and a holy symbol

Alternatively, you may start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

Divine Sense

The presence of strong evil registers on your senses like a noxious odor, and powerful good rings like heavenly music in your ears.

As an action, you can open your awareness to detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the type (celestial, fiend, or undead) of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity (the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich, for instance). Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has 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

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 an 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.

Holy Sword

Your devotion is so powerful that your weapon is bathed in radiant energy. Each melee attack you perform adds the listed dice as radiant damage.

Auras

At 1st level, your mere presence is enough to inspire allies and protect them with your holy power. There are two kinds of auras a paladin can know, major and minor. You begin play knowing 1 of each. When you gain certain paladin levels, you gain additional auras of your choice, as shown in the major aura and minor aura columns of the paladin table.

You may only have 1 aura, of either type, active. You may use your bonus action to activate or switch your aura. The aura affects you and all allies within 10 feet of you, at 11th level this distance increases to 30ft. and at 17th level it increases to 60ft. Your aura bonus is equal to you Charisma modifier.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular 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.

Divine Health

By 2nd level, the divine magic flowing through you makes you immune to disease.

Sacred Oath

When you reach 3rd level, 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. The Oaths are detailed at the end of the class description or one from another source.

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

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.

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

Beginning at 13th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests.

Sacred Oaths

Choose from Oath of Compassion, Oath of Zealous Action, Oath of Radiance

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Bastion of Faith

Starting at 6th level, you may now have both a major aura and a minor aura active at the same time.

Cleansing Touch

Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to end one spell on yourself or on one willing creature that you touch. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Sacred Oaths

Choose from Oath of Compassion, Oath of Zealous Action, Oath of Radiance

Oath of Compassion

Channel Divinity: Prayer of Healing

Starting at 3rd level, as an action, you can use your channel divinity feature to heal all allies within 30ft by a number of d8's equal to 1+1/2 your paladin level.

Heal the Sick

Beginning at 7th level, Your Lay on hands is now equal to your paladin level times 7.

Healer’s Sanctuary

Additionally, at 7th level, removing a disease or poison from a target only costs 3 points of your lay on hands. Further any attacks against a creature for which you preformed lay on hands, or cleansing touch have disadvantage until the start of their next turn.

A Healer's Work

Starting at 15th level, you may regain a small amount of your lay on hands pool back on a short rest. When you take a short rest you can regain a number of healing points equal to 2 x your paladin level.

Emissary of Redemption

At 20th level, you have become an avatar of peace, which gives you two benefits:

• You have resistance to all damage dealt by other creatures (their attacks, spells, and other effects).
• Whenever a creature hits you with an attack, it takes radiant damage equal to half the damage you take from the attack. If you attack a creature, cast a spell on it, or deal damage to it by any means but this feature, neither benefit works against that creature until you finish a long rest.

Oath of Zealous Action

Channel Divinity: Zeal

Starting at 3rd level, as a bonus action, you can use your channel divinity feature to gain 1 attack as a bonus action. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

Into the Fray

At 7th level, if you see an enemy you may use a dash action as a bonus action to move 30ft toward an enemy.

Champion’s Stand

Beginning at 15th level, when you are reduced to O hit points and are not killed outright, you can choose to drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Piety of Battle

At 20th level, you gain the ability to harness extraordinary martial prowess. As an action, you can magically become an avatar of battle, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You have resistance to all damage.
• All your attacks are rolled with advantage
• Your melee weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Oath of Radiance

Auras

Minor Auras

Listed Below:

Cleansing. Immunity to Poison

Warding. Immunity to Disease

Courage. Immunity to Frightened

Awareness Immunity to Blinded and Deafened

Sanctuary. Immunity to Charmed

Deeds Immunity to Incapacitated, Stunned, and Paralyzed

Accuracy. You can critical hit on 19 or 20.

Ability. Bonus on Athletics, Acrobatics, and Stealth checks

Acumen. Bonus on Perception, Investigation and Insight checks

Resistance. Resistance to 2 types of damage. Can be taken again. Each time select 2 different types of damage.