SRD5:Paladin
See SRD:Paladin (disambiguation)
Paladin is a class in 5th edition.
Class Features
As a Paladin, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Paladin level after first
Proficiencies
Armor: All armor and shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom , Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, Religion.
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) five javelins or (b) any simple melee weapon
- (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
- Chain mail and a holy symbol
Paladin Overview Table
| Level | Proficiency Bonus |
Features | —Spell Slots per Spell Level— | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |||||||
| 1st | +2 | Divine Sense, Lay on Hands | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style, Spellcasting, Divine Smite | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 3rd | +2 | Divine Health, Sacred Oath | 3 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 5th | +3 | Extra Attack | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||
| 6th | +3 | Aura of Protection | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||
| 7th | +3 | Sacred Oath Feature | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | ||||
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | ||||
| 9th | +4 | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | ||||
| 10th | +4 | Aura of Courage | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | ||||
| 11th | +4 | Improved Divine Smite | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | ||||
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | ||||
| 13th | +5 | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | ||||
| 14th | +5 | Cleansing Touch | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | ||||
| 15th | +5 | Sacred Oath Feature | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | ||||
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | ||||
| 17th | +6 | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 18th | +6 | Aura Improvement | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 20th | +6 | Sacred Oath Feature | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||
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.
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.
Spellcasting
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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.
Divine Health
By 3rd 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. Now you choose an oath, such as the Oath of Devotion.
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.
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.
- Oath of the Ancients [1]
- Oath of the Crown [2]
- Oath of Conquest [3]
- Oath of Devotion [4]
- Oath of Martyrdom [uc 1]
- Oath of Redemption [3]
- Oath of Treachery [ua 1]
- Oath of Vengeance [1]
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.
Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your paladin spell save DC.
Ability Score Improvement
{{#set: Features=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.
Extra Attack
{{#set: Features=Extra Attack}}Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Aura of Protection
{{#set: Features=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.
Aura of Courage
{{#set: Features=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.
Improved Divine Smite
{{#set: Features=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.
Cleansing Touch
{{#set: Features=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.
Breaking Your OathA 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. |
Sources
- SRD-OGL v5.1 - 5th edition SRD/OGL document published Jan. 2016 by WotC
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