Paladin

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Overview & Creation

PHB, Pgs. 83-88

Oath of the Grim Hunt From Blackwoods Tome of Heros

Oath of the Common Man By Walrock Homebrew

 

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Class Features

Divine Sense Your conection to faith allows you to open your higher senses to detect holy or unholy powers, places, or objects in a 60 ft. radius. Anything behind total cover or out of direct line of sight still provides a signal, but it registers very little. This can be used 1 + cha modifer and is reset after a LR.

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Lay on Hands

Your divine rights provide you the ability to heal the equivalent of your level x 5. This pool is used by touching your target and selecting how many points to heal, or expend 5 to cure a disease or neutralize poison. This is reset after a long rest and has no effect on undead and constructs.

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Fighting Style

At 2nd level, 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.   Defense While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.   Dueling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.   Great Weapon Fighting When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.   Protection When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

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Spellcasting

By 2nd level, you have learned to draw on divine magic through meditation and prayer to cast spells as a cleric does.

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Divine Smite

Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is an undead or a fiend.

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Divine Health

By 3rd level, the divine magic flowing through you makes you immune to disease.

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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.   Becoming a paladin involves taking vows that commit the paladin to the cause of righteousness, an active path of fighting wickedness. The final oath, taken when he or she reaches 3rd level, is the culmination of all the paladin’s training. Some characters with this class don’t consider themselves true paladins until they have reached 3rd level and made this oath. For others, the actual swearing of the oath is a formality, an official stamp on what has always been true in the paladin’s heart.   Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 15th, and 20th level. Those features include oath spells and the Channel Divinity feature.

Breaking Your Oath

A paladin tries to hold to the highest standards of conduct, but even the most virtuous paladin is fallible. Sometimes the right path proves too demanding, sometimes a situation calls for the lesser of two evils, and sometimes the heat of emotion causes a paladin to transgress his or her oath.   A paladin who has broken a vow typically seeks absolution from a cleric who shares his or her faith or from another paladin of the same order. The paladin might spend an all-­night vigil in prayer as a sign of penitence, or undertake a fast or similar act of self-­denial. After a rite of confession and forgiveness, the paladin starts fresh.   If a paladin willfully violates his or her oath and shows no sign of repentance, the consequences can be more serious. At the GM’s discretion, an impenitent paladin might be forced to abandon this class and adopt another.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

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Ability Score Improvement

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.

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Extra Attack

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

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Aura of Protection

Starting at 6th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1). You must be conscious to grant this bonus.   At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

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Aura of Courage

Starting at 10th level, you and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can’t be frightened while you are conscious.   At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

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Improved Divine Smite

By 11th level, you are so suffused with righteous might that all your melee weapon strikes carry divine power with them. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon, the creature takes an extra 1d8 radiant damage. If you also use your Divine Smite with an attack, you add this damage to the extra damage of your Divine Smite.

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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.

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Starting Equipment

• A martial weapon and shield or two martial weapons
• Five Javelins or and simple melee weapon
• A Priest's pack or an Explorer's pack
• Chain mail and a holy symbol

 

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Subclass Options

Sacred Oaths

Becoming a paladin involves taking vows that commit the paladin to the cause of righteousness, an active path of fighting wickedness. The final oath, taken when he or she reaches 3rd level, is the culmination of all the paladin's training. Some characters with this class don't consider themselves true paladins until they have reached 3rd level and made this oath. For others, the actual swearing of the oath is a formality, an official stamp on what has always been true in the paladin's heart.

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Oath of Devotion

The Oath of Devotion binds a paladin to the loftiest ideals of justice, virtue, and order. Sometimes called cavaliers, white knights, or holy warriors, these paladins meet the ideal of the knight in shining armor, acting with honor in pursuit of justice and the greater good. They hold themselves to the highest standards of conduct, and some, for better or worse, hold the rest of the world to the same standards. Many who swear this oath are devoted to gods of law and good and use their gods' tenets as the measure of their devotion. They hold angels-the perfect servants of good-as their ideals, and incorporate images of angelic wings into their helmets or coats of arms.

Tenets of Devotion

Though the exact words and strictures of the Oath of Devotion vary, paladins of this oath share these tenets:

Honesty

Don't lie or cheat. Let your word be your promise.

Courage

Never fear to act, though caution is wise.

Compassion

Aid others, protect the weak, and punish those who threaten them. Show mercy to your foes, but temper it with wisdom.

Honor

Treat others with fairness, and let your honorable deeds be an example to them. Do as much good as possible while causing the least amount of harm.

Duty

Be responsible for your actions and their consequences, protect those entrusted to your care, and obey those who have just authority over you.

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed:

Oath of Devotion Spells

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	protection from evil and good, sanctuary
5th	lesser restoration, zone of truth
9th	beacon of hope, dispel magic
13th	freedom of movement, guardian of faith
17th	commune, flame strike

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options:

Sacred Weapon

As an action, you can imbue one weapon that you are holding with positive energy, using your Channel Divinity. For 1 minute, you add your Charisma modifier to attack rolls made with that weapon (with a minimum bonus of +1). The weapon also emits bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light 20 feet beyond that. If the weapon is not already magical, it becomes magical for the duration. You can end this effect on your turn as part of any other action. If you are no longer holding or carrying this weapon, or if you fall unconscious, this effect ends.

Turn the Unholy

As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring fiends and undead, using your Channel Divinity. Each fiend or undead that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes damage. A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Aura of Devotion

Starting at 7th level, you and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can't be charmed while you are conscious. At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Purity of Spirit

Beginning at 15th level, you are always under the effects of a protection from evil and good spell.

Holy Nimbus

At 20th level, as an action, you can emanate an aura of sunlight. For 1 minute, bright light shines from you in a 30-foot radius, and dim light shines 30 feet beyond that. Whenever an enemy creature starts its turn in the bright light, the creature takes 10 radiant damage. In addition, for the duration, you have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by fiends or undead. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.  

Oath of the Grim Hunt

The Oath of the grim hunt is a calling that requires its followers to seek out and destroy the many evils that stalk the mortal realms. Often called Grim knights, or Knight Slayers, these hunters dedicate themselves, body and soul, to hunting down the monstrous, the wicked, and the mutated, destroying them with a burning, merciless prejudice.

Tenets of the Grim Hunt

Kill the monster, burn the cult

Seek and destroy the monsters that seek to feast on the woes of mortals, and end the lives of their mortal followers.

Defy the dark ones

Evil persists because it lays seeds. Destroy the foundations of the dark gods power and wipe their names from the histories.

Be ever prepared

Your enemy never rests, but you must never be unable to answer the call. Abstain from drink and gluttony. Keep your body strong, and your will unbreakable.

No mercy for the wicked

Your enemies lack empathy and mercy. Have none and show them none.

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.

Oath of the Grim Hunt Spells

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	hunters mark, faerie fire
5th	see invisibility, hold person
9th	dispel magic, magic circle
13th	locate creature, elemental bane
17th	hold monster, scrying

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

Hunt's End

Whenever you hit a creature with a melee attack, and use your divine smite feature, you can use your Channel Divinity to increase the damage die of the smite to a d10 instead of a d8. If the target is an aberration, fiend, undead, or monstrosity, the die increases to a d12.
You can then re-roll any of the damage dice once.

Merciless Crippling

As an action, you can use your channel divinity to horribly cripple a creature with divine power. Choose a creature within 60ft of you. They must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have their flying and burrowing speeds are reduced to 0, and their movement speed halved for one minute.

Beacon of Cleansing

Beginning at 7th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you is under the effects of a spell or other effect that allows it to repeat a saving throw at the end of each of its turns, it can repeat the saving throw at the start of its turn instead, possibly ending the effect early.
At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

The Living Inevitable

Starting at 15th level, You can no longer be charmed or paralyzed, and you can't be sensed or scryed upon by divination magics unless you want to be.

Champion of the Grim Hunt

As an action, you can take the form of a divine monstrosity for one minute as if under the effects of the shapechange spell. The divine monster has the same statistics as a Planetar, though it lacks the Innate Spellcasting and Healing Touch traits. You choose what this form looks like, and the form cannot be dispelled by magic.
Additionally, while transformed, you radiate an aura of menace while you're not incapacitated. The aura extends 30 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. Hostile creatures within the aura can't regain hit points, and lose resistance to any damage types.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Oath of the Common Man

The Oath of the Common Man is born of togetherness, mutual suffering, and righteous indignation at those who would put their boot heel to the collective neck of the worst-off in soci­ety. When a greedy baron levies unfair taxes that cut the poor to the bone, when a pompous dragon ransacks the countryside to build his own personal hoard, when a bloodthirsty tyrant forces the poor into conscripted service in his armies, to fight and die on the frontlines, the paladin of the Common Man will be there with the fury of the oppressed at their back, with thunder in their voice and fire in their eyes, and the will of the people behind their every word and action. To a paladin of the Common Man, tyrants and avaricious industrialists are worse than any fiend, and they must be thrown down, their schemes bent and broken, before the might of those they sought to keep beneath them. Paladins of the Common Man always wear armor and clothing that is simple, un-ornate, but well-cared-for and kept up with the labor and dedication that comes only from earnest devotion.

Tenets of the Common Man

The tenets that a paladin of the Common Man obeys vary wildly from individual to individual, but all carry within them the same revolutionary spirit, the single idea that the change the world needs to break free from tyranny is destined to happen, but that much work needs to be done alongside every common man and woman to bring this collective dream to fruition. A paladin of the Common Man thus roughly upholds the following tenets:

Equality

All creatures are inherently equal, and those that deny this fact for their own gain do the common man harm.

Community

A struggle is meaningless if it is not done together for a greater purpose than oneself. Stand and fight with your brothers and sisters for the betterment of all.

Respect

Give respect, love, and kindness to those disenfranchised who find themselves with­out any. They are your comrades and the reason you fight.

Change

The world must change if it is to be any better, and it will not change if we do not act. Do your part to make a more just future.

Labor

You are not above the work that the common man does. Whenever you have a chance, labor with them as they do and work to ease their difficult lot in life.

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.

Oath of the Common Man Spells

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	longstrider, sanctuary
5th	calm emotions, enhance ability
9th	counterspell, tongues
13th	fabricate, freedom of movement
17th	legend lore, wall of stone

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

Worker's Harmony

As an action, you un­leash a message of unity in a loud, booming voice, calling on the spirits of common laborers who have died in oppression to come to aid you, or another. Either you are considered to be aided by the Help action from an unseen or indistinct source for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modi­fier (minimum 1), or one friendly creature within 30 feet of you that you choose (including your­self) gains proficiency with a specific type of artisan's tools for one hour.

Turn the Bourgeois

Those that hold them­selves a class above the common working man must be brought down and made to fear the peasantry. As an action, you utter an indictment against those who would trample the rights of laborers, inspiring the same terror in them that they inflict on those they hold as lessers. Any fey, non-chaotic fiend, or dragon that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes damage. At your DM's discretion, aristo­cratic humanoids and undead may also be affected by this ability, as long as they are intelli­gent and unsympathetic to the plight of the lower classes.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Aura of Solidarity

Beginning at 7th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you takes damage, you may choose to instead divide that damage evenly between all willing friendly tar­gets within this aura, rounding up fractions to the nearest whole hit point. As an example: If there are 3 friendly creatures in this aura (yourself included) and one takes 20 hit points of damage, you may choose to have all three friendly creatures (so long as they are willing) take 7 hitpoints of damage instead.[p/] At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Revolutionary Spirit

Starting at 15th level, you may take the Help action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

In addition, you inherently have advantage on all Charisma checks involving interaction with laborers and the common man.

Strength of the People

At 20th level, you can transform yourself into a larger-than-life icon of the working class and their revolutionary struggle. Using your action, you can gain the following benefits for 1 minute, as long as you can see or hear a conscious friendly creature:

• You grow to large size and your equipment grows with you, doubling your reach and movement speed.
• At the start of each of their turns, any friendly creature that can see or hear you (including yourself) gains a number of temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you may apply the benefits of the Help action to a number of friendly creatures equal to half your Charisma modifier, rounded up (minimum 1), within 30 feet of you and that can see or hear you.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.    

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