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🦸‍♀️5e - Paladin🦸‍♀️

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Paladins are united by their oaths to stand against the forces of annihilation and corruption. Whether sworn before a god’s altar, in a sacred glade before nature spirits, or in a moment of desperation and grief with the dead as the only witnesses, a Paladin’s oath is a powerful bond. It is a source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion.

Paladins train to learn the skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and armor. Even so, their martial skills are secondary to the magical power they wield: power to heal the injured, smite their foes, and protect the helpless and those who fight at their side.

Almost by definition, the life of a Paladin is an adventuring life, for every Paladin lives on the front lines of the cosmic struggle against annihilation. Fighters are rare enough among the ranks of a world’s armies, but even fewer people can claim the calling of a Paladin. When they do receive the call, these blessed folk turn from their former occupations and take up arms and magic.

Class Table

Core Class Traits

Starting Proficiencies

Armor Training	Light Armor, Medium Armor, Heavy Armor, Light Shields, Medium Shields, Heavy Shields
Weapon Proficiencies	Simple, Martial
Spellcasting Focus Proficiencies	Holy Symbols
Saving Throw Proficiencies	Choose one proficiency of each A and B: (A) Constitution OR Wisdom; (B) Strength OR Charisma
Skill Proficiencies	Choose 2: Athletics, Acrobatics, Endurance, History, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, Occultism, and Religion
Tool Proficiencies	-
Starting Equipment	Choose A or B: (A) 1 Armor worth less than 150 SP, a Shield, 1 Weapon, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, 10 SP; (B) 150 SP

Martial Class

Maneuver Ability: Strength or Dexterity
Maneuver Attack: STR/DEX + Proficiency Bonus
Maneuver Save DC: 8 + STR/DEX + Proficiency Bonus
Combat Traditions: You gain proficiency in two of the following Combat Traditions: 🤺Attentiveness, 🤺Comradery, 🤺Might, 🤺Prowess
Exertion: The Martial Table shows how much Exertion you have to use Manuevers. To use one of these Maneuvers, you must expend an amount of Exertion as defined by the Maneuver. You regain any spent Exertion at the end of a Short or Long Rest.
Maneuvers: You know a number of Maneuvers from Combat Traditions you are proficient in as shown in the Martial Table. The Maneuvers Known column of the Martial 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. Whenever you gain a Level in this Class you can replace one of your Maneuvers with another Maneuver of your choice.
Fighting Style: You gain one Fighting Style 🥇Class Feat of your choice.
Weapon Masteries: You can use the 🗡️Mastery Properties of all Weapons you are proficient in.
Extra Attack: Starting at 5th Level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Starting at 17th Level you can attack three times. This is shown in the Martial table below.

Martial Table

Martial Table

Level	Exertion	Maneuvers Known	Maneuver Degree	Attacks per Attack Action
1st	2	1	1st	1
2nd	2	2	1st	1
3rd	3	2	1st	1
4th	3	3	1st	1
5th	4	3	1st	2
6th	5	4	1st	2
7th	6	4	2nd	2
8th	6	5	2nd	2
9th	7	5	2nd	2
10th	7	5	2nd	2
11th	8	6	2nd	2
12th	8	6	2nd	2
13th	9	6	3rd	2
14th	9	6	3rd	2
15th	9	7	3rd	2
16th	9	7	3rd	2
17th	10	7	3rd	3
18th	10	7	3rd	3
19th	10	8	4th	3
20th	10	8	4th	3

Class Maneuvers

Fighting Style Feats

Spellcaster Class

Spellcasting

Spellcasting Ability: Charisma
Spell Attack: CHA + Proficiency Bonus
Spell Save DC: 8 + CHA + Proficiency Bonus
Spellcasting Focus: Holy Symbol (Which can be painted on your shield)
Spell List: ☄️Divine Spell Source
Spell Slots: The Spellcaster Table shows how many Spell Slots you have to cast Spells. To cast one of these Spells, you must expend a Slot of the Spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a Long Rest.
Cantrips: Whenever you gain a Level in this Class, you can replace one of your cantrips with another cantrip of your choice from your Spell List.
Spells: You prepare a number of spells from your Spell List as shown in your Class’s the Spellcaster Table. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can change your list of prepared spells, replacing any of the spells there with other Divine spells for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Focus Masteries: You can use the 🎩Spell Focus Mastery Properties of all 🎩Spellcasting Foci you are proficient in.

Spellcaster Table

Spellcaster Table: Half Caster

Level	Cantrips	Spells	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	1	2	2	—	—	—	—
2nd	1	3	2	—	—	—	—
3rd	2	4	3	—	—	—	—
4th	2	5	3	—	—	—	—
5th	2	6	4	2	—	—	—
6th	2	7	4	2	—	—	—
7th	2	8	4	3	—	—	—
8th	2	9	4	3	—	—	—
9th	3	10	4	3	2	—	—
10th	3	10	4	3	2	—	—
11th	3	11	4	3	3	—	—
12th	3	11	4	3	3	—	—
13th	3	12	4	3	3	1	—
14th	3	12	4	3	3	1	—
15th	3	13	4	3	3	2	—
16th	4	13	4	3	3	2	—
17th	4	14	4	3	3	3	1
18th	4	14	4	3	3	3	1
19th	4	15	4	3	3	3	2
20th	4	15	4	3	3	3	2

Spell List

Class Features

Level 1: Divine Sense (Flavor)

As a Bonus Action, you can open your awareness to detect Celestials, Fiends, and Undead. For the next 10 minutes or until you have the ☠️Incapacitated condition, you know the location of any creature of those types within 60 feet of yourself, and you know its creature type. 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.

Number of Uses: You can use this feature a number of times equal to your CHA, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Level 1: Lay on Hands

Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you finish a Long Rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of 💖Hit Points equal to 5 x your Paladin level.

As a Bonus Action, you can touch a creature (which could be yourself) and draw power from the pool of healing to restore a number of 💖Hit Points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in the pool.

You can also expend 5 💖Hit Points from the pool of healing power to remove the ☠️Poisoned condition from the creature; those points don’t also restore 💖Hit Points to the creature.

Level 1: Paladin’s Smite

Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee 🎲Weapon Attack or an ⚔️Unarmed Strike, you can expend a spell slot to deal extra Necrotic or Radiant damage (your Choice) to the target, equal to 1d8 + 1d8 per level of the spell slot. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is a Celestial, Fiend or an Undead.

You cannot cast any spells using a spell slot the turn you used this feature. If a Paladin’s Smite effect requires a 🎲Save, the 🎲DC equals the ☄️Spell Save DC from this class’s Spellcasting feature.

Level 2: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 3: Archetype (Subclass)

Choose one Archetype, which represents you best. Your Archetpye grants you new abilities at 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, and 19th level.

Level 4: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 5: Faithful Steed

You can call on the aid of an otherworldly steed. You gain the following benefits:

Find Steed: You always have the ☄️Find Steed spell prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest.

Strong Steed: While you are 🐴Mounted, you and your steed gain the following benefits:

• You cannot be unmounted against your will.
• Your mount has Resistance against all damage.
• Whenever your mount regains any 💖Hit Points, its 🏃‍♀️Speed increases by 20 feet until the end of your next turn.

Level 5: Sacred Aura

You radiate a protective, unseeable aura in a 10-foot Emanation that originates from you. The aura is inactive while you have the ☠️Incapacitated condition. You can have one of the following aura effects active at a time and you can change which effect is active, whenever you finish a Long Rest. While within the Emanation, you and your allies benefit from the aura’s effect:

Aura of Courage: You and your allies have Immunity to the ☠️Frightened condition. If a ☠️Frightened ally enters the aura, that condition has no effect on that ally while there.

Aura of Healing: Immediately after you or an ally casts a spell with a spell slot that restores 💖Hit Points to one creatures other than the spellcaster, both the spellcaster and the target regain 💖Hit Points equal to 2 x your CHA.

Aura of Protection: You and your allies in the aura gain a bonus to 🎲Saves equal to your CHA (minimum bonus of +1).

If another Paladin is present, a creature can benefit from only one Sacred Aura at a time; the creature chooses which aura while in them.

Level 6: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 7: Archetype Feature

You gain the 7th-level Archetype Feature of the Archetype you chose at 3rd level in this class.

Level 8: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 9: Abjure Foes

As a ⚔️Magic action, you can expend one use of your Channel Oath to overwhelm foes with awe. As you present your 🎩Holy Symbol or 🗡️Weapon, you can target a number of creatures equal to your CHA (minimum of one creature) that you can see within 60 feet of yourself. Each target makes a WIS Save. Failure: The creature has the ☠️Frightened condition for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. While ☠️Frightened in this way, a target is also ☠️Dazed.

Level 10: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 11: Archetype Feature

You gain the 11th-level Archetype Feature of the Archetype you chose at 3rd level in this class.

Level 12: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 13: Radiant Strikes

Your strikes now carry supernatural power. When you hit a creature with a melee 🎲Weapon Attack or an ⚔️Unarmed Strike, the target takes an extra 1d8 Necrotic or Radiant damage (your Choice).

Level 14: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 15: Archetype Feature

You gain the 15th-level Archetype Feature of the Archetype you chose at 3rd level in this class.

Level 16: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 17: Undying Sentinel

You gain the following benefits:

Ever Young: You can’t be aged magically, and you cease visibly aging.

Restore Life: When you are reduced to 0 💖Hit Points and not killed outright, you can drop to 1 💖Hit Point instead, and you regain a number of 💖Hit Points equal to 3 x your Paladin level.

Number of Uses: Once you’ve used this benefit, you can’t use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Level 18: Feats

You gain one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Level 19: Archetype Feature

You gain the 19th-level Archetype Feature of the Archetype you chose at 3rd level in this class.

Level 20: Aura Expansion

Your Sacred Aura is now a 30-foot Emanation.

Level 20: Feats

You gain one 🥇Epic Boon Feat, one 🥇Class Feat, one 🥇General Feat and one 🥇Skill Feat for which you qualify.

Inspiration/Quelle

Inspiration/Quelle

Class Artwork: Michael Broussard; Player’s Handbook 2024