Depends where the conquest paladin is trying to conquer. A conquest paladin on a quest to conquer the underdark and bring it into the light. Woukd very much need that mindset to survive.
@@noubodisperrfct5513 levels 1-3/5 should just be the prologue to the main campaign. I like starting at 1 because it gives me and my group some time to get a feel for our characters and the world that we’re in. As a Paladin, I like to work with my DM to give some set up to why my Paladin takes a specific oath, like as a Vengeance Paladin coming back to the still warm bodies of a childhood friend or family member and swearing in the dirt and mud that you dedicate yourself to bringing their murderers to justice, etc.
@@Nickelback8469 Yeah that is what Dms are intended to do. Unfortunately for myself and many others my old Dm uses it to get rid of characters they don't like and test out peoples builds.... Or lack there of... Safe to say no one played a wizard with them.
My first paladin was a sentient Cake, and my current paladin is an Aetherborn. The first one yelled at people to eat him, the other one basically eats people.
Yeah I had to carry the party through a lot of sessions when our barbarian was gone omg I basically only healed myself and had to be the one melee character
For anyone reading- while the paladin is often the one with the party's braincell/self control, my paladin is the embodiment of the 'I have very few braincells but make up for it with many heartcells' meme. Ironic, as her goddess is Athena. It's a family thing. (She will, however, pick up other party members to remove them from uncomfortable situations)
My favorite dnd memory is when my bard and our paladin teamed up. The paladin had a super magic sword which combined with smite did about 40 damage per round. My bard then just hid behind him, curing all wounds and providing inspiration, and when the dragon took flight, my bard dimension doored us both onto it's back to continue the system. It was supposed to be a near TPK for our six member party, but the two of us took it down all by ourselves
Unless you're Oath of Vengeance. Then, the barbarian and the rogue are your besties and all you need to do is point them in the right direction and watch the blood of the wicked flow
I had a Paladin in a pathfinder game that first session the npcs told everyone who didn’t follow their religion to convert or they would throw them in a bonfire, she just walked right into the fire then started hurling insults and burning logs at them thanks to fire resistance. I really loved that character.
Lawful neutral alignment is best. Cold, efficient brutality in the name of upholding the law. My first character was a construct, a lawful neutral Paladin/Artificer armed with a flail and kite shield, and essentially was a fantasy Robocop.
The lvl 1 Paladin probably: “Yeah yeah laugh it up chuckle fucks you just wait till we start going up lvls I bet you’ll want me around when my very presence is giving you all +3 to every save, or when I can pop a boss like a balloon. Oh what’s that your hurt or have a condition that my lay on hands can fix, sorry all I’m good for is tanking.” * proceeds to smite the evil thing into oblivion. *
As a rogue who fell a Hydra from more than 800 feet away with a critical longbow, I can safely say that I enjoy having a paladin as a friend and an ally
I mean I was playing an oath breaker and just stood there as cultist stole the souls of several defenseless children he could of done something but he didn’t
I started playing paladin mid campaign at lvl 5 or 7 I think and my dm buffed me because I'm the only tank and now I Just bulldoze half our enemies and shrug off most attacks. Plus I created a knight order so I am accompanied by at least 3 more paladins most of the time who flank the enemy and we all devine smite together. Truly a euphoric experience.
One of my players had 1 level of cleric, and then went paladin after that... except for 3 levels of celestial warlock late-game (carrying around a saint's reliquary). Cantrips for ranged battle, a divine domain, can't lose her weapon, gets a few spell slots back every short rest... yeah she was friggin O.P. as... uh, _heck._ (whew, narrowly dodged a smiting there 😅)
Then they become an Oathbreaker instead of whatever Oath they would've had if they were *too much* of a murder hobo. There are upsides to everything I suppose.
Playing with a paladin, we were saving towns from giants First session after our paladin died... We may have... burnt an entire town to the ground because we got robbed at the inn..
When I played dnd rise of tiamat, I was a oath of the ancients paladin and my party respects me on the first session. A bug bear or a hobgoblin nearly killed our ranger and I was in a Bush waiting for a opportunity to attack got a nat 20 to hit the hob and delt 32 points of damage. Basically the dm said that when my warhammer collided with the hob's mid section it sent a shock wave through the hobgoblin basically liquified his internal organs and leaving him on 1 hp left. The whole party was only level 1.😅
Just started a warforged oath of vengeance palladin that has crippling anxiety and fear because he doesn't know if he would still be alive tomorrow (because we dont know how long they can live) he is depressed and has no hope or dreams in life because, why bother if you die tomorrow. But he made an oath to other warforged from his batch that were all killed 30 years ago from the war that he would kill their creator but still obeys anyone commanding him because that's all he knows yet. That's the only thing that forces him to move at all.
My DM and I work shopped a paladin who's oath was to a devil and his oath was so powerful when they died he resurrected into a revenant and now they're an undead Devil loving tank just eviscerating enemies with necrotic damage
Anyone notice the paladin has a magic sword? It disappears at times hiding itself into the background. Watch the sword when he says "your inclined to be the goody two shoes saint"
Oh geez, the barbarian and wizard in my party are so bloodthirsty, and me (paladin) and the Druid normally go after their turns so we basically clean up after them until they piss off a new population.
I'm the paladin in our group with no other healers or tanks. I'm also the babysitter because THEY ARE ALWAYS GETTING INTO GODDAMN TROUBLE IF I LOOK AWAY FOR ONE SECOND. Fun and hilarious lol
I play my paladin slightly different. Playing in a pirate themed campaign, think of my character as Elizabeth swan from pirates of the Caribbean. Starts from royalty and is lawful good, slowly turning to chaotic good. Currently I just want to rid the seas of evil pirates and sea creatures. I probably have way more blood lust than our barbarian does. I definitely hit harder and more often then she does.
Fun thing: for our campaign I play as a half foot teifling. Our barbarian and everyone else in the party, aside from the dm, won’t let me fight god For some background behind it: We’re all level 6 and tend to have a ton of fun messing around, even if our dm likes to through emotional rollercoasters at us. For our last one we were all saying how we are gods and I’m over here, a chaotic 9 year old child, saying “We can Fight God.” I get a bunch of no’s before being backed up cause, technically, God’s used to fight each other all the time. It was interesting to hear-
Through an "unholy" combination of cloak, ring, and blessing of protection and my +3 shield my AL character has 27 AC but I am so weak in the damage department the only thing I can do is tank. not like I get a chance to have my turn before everyone is dead anyway.
"That evil smells like rotten eggs and good sounds like a choir of angels." Insert me and my pallock, whose patron would probably lean to the more biblically accurate eldritch angels.
I like the idea of paladin being lawful good, because when I play my chaotic good paladin DMS be like "you cant do that you have to be lawful" and me being "yes and technically no you see my deity is chaotic and is good so my character is just following his deities footsteps." Dm 😥😥 but the.. its says in da rules
I am currently in a campaign as a half-ork paladin with chain mail armor and an enchanted great sword that gives me +4d6 to my rolls for damage and I can’t help but give 5 gold to those I think need help or just to help people understand my intentions but I in no way would let some person bully me or others around it is in the path to protect the weak after all. Also my god is Helm chillest of them all.
Me: chaotic good Tiefling paladin rogue who heals everyone, has a wife, eats quesadillas, has a robot hand, and kills everything Our party of 4 was called the FDA (five dumb a*ses I doubt we had a collective intellince score over 50)
My party only had spellcasters so I decided to go with paladin. Level 2 I get a natural 20 with my lance and smite: 32 damage on a wolf Combat with a paladin is kinda fun huh
As a a Warlock whose gonna go into Paladin for some sick extra stuff..with my DM wanting my Patron as my God for it...I think my Chaotic Good Sea Monster Mom wants blood. So she will get blood.
I am convinced that the only reason why paladins are moral babysitters is because evil LITERALLY smells more fowel than a baked cooked skunk and they just want the suffering to stop
This is a PSA, you do not have to be a good paladin. You can be morally grey or even evil, you just have to make sure to follow the rules of your oath, lest your DM makes you an oathbreaker. For this, I'd reccomend a conquest, vengeance, or oathbreaker paladin, cause none of these are really good or evil, but can be played both ways very easily Bonus points if you multiclass hexblade warlock for extra flavor, and an (imo) much stronger build than just pure paladin
There's nothing morally upright about an Oath of Conquest Paladin. There's me, and everyone else beneath my boot.
Renegade Shepard? "You either get in line, or you become one of the many that are crushed beneath my boot."
I mean, you could argue batman is at least partially a conquest paladin. Make the bad guys afraid of me etc.
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Depends where the conquest paladin is trying to conquer. A conquest paladin on a quest to conquer the underdark and bring it into the light. Woukd very much need that mindset to survive.
Same me and my conquest werewolf high elf and his two bags of tricks will rule the world
I was gonna ask if you could have a chaotic (maybe evil) Paladin. But this sums it up well.
This is why our DM started us at level 3 this campaign. Now our Conquest Paladin can actually enjoy himself.
If you don't start at lvl 3 its a survival horror till you reach that point lol
Wouldn't that technically be level 1 then.
@@SpecterNeverSpectator it really should be. I have no Idea why they put the subtypes mainly at level 3....
@@noubodisperrfct5513 levels 1-3/5 should just be the prologue to the main campaign. I like starting at 1 because it gives me and my group some time to get a feel for our characters and the world that we’re in. As a Paladin, I like to work with my DM to give some set up to why my Paladin takes a specific oath, like as a Vengeance Paladin coming back to the still warm bodies of a childhood friend or family member and swearing in the dirt and mud that you dedicate yourself to bringing their murderers to justice, etc.
@@Nickelback8469 Yeah that is what Dms are intended to do. Unfortunately for myself and many others my old Dm uses it to get rid of characters they don't like and test out peoples builds.... Or lack there of...
Safe to say no one played a wizard with them.
I like when
The sword reflects the green screen
My first paladin was a sentient Cake, and my current paladin is an Aetherborn. The first one yelled at people to eat him, the other one basically eats people.
👈🏾 Vore detected
Yeah I had to carry the party through a lot of sessions when our barbarian was gone omg I basically only healed myself and had to be the one melee character
Same, Warlock Simic with about 55 hp at level 6. Also tank with 19AC cause fuck your attacks enemy.
For anyone reading- while the paladin is often the one with the party's braincell/self control, my paladin is the embodiment of the 'I have very few braincells but make up for it with many heartcells' meme. Ironic, as her goddess is Athena. It's a family thing. (She will, however, pick up other party members to remove them from uncomfortable situations)
the sword is so shiny it reflects the green screen just enough to look like it phases out of existence for a bit
My favorite dnd memory is when my bard and our paladin teamed up. The paladin had a super magic sword which combined with smite did about 40 damage per round. My bard then just hid behind him, curing all wounds and providing inspiration, and when the dragon took flight, my bard dimension doored us both onto it's back to continue the system. It was supposed to be a near TPK for our six member party, but the two of us took it down all by ourselves
Unless you're Oath of Vengeance. Then, the barbarian and the rogue are your besties and all you need to do is point them in the right direction and watch the blood of the wicked flow
One of my groups once had a paladin who's hair had its own charisma check.
You can see the base of his neck getting irritated from him rubbing against his armour
I had a Paladin in a pathfinder game that first session the npcs told everyone who didn’t follow their religion to convert or they would throw them in a bonfire, she just walked right into the fire then started hurling insults and burning logs at them thanks to fire resistance. I really loved that character.
What was your paladin?
She was an Aasimar with fire resistance 5 in place of the spell-like ability
I like to combine paladin and rogue to nuke everything in a single hit
So like...is a paladin who's speed let's him move 30ft at a time +1 constitution that has the strength of 15 +2 good?
My paladin is kind of like a goody toe shoes but he also gets like every single brutal kill so ehhh
Lawful neutral alignment is best. Cold, efficient brutality in the name of upholding the law. My first character was a construct, a lawful neutral Paladin/Artificer armed with a flail and kite shield, and essentially was a fantasy Robocop.
@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 yeah lawful neutral and chaotic good are my favorite alignments
Two shoes
Holy Radiant Damage at level 2 helps make sure you're deleting bad guys
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD oh gross I just realized what I said
My ancient oath paladin lying about everything as he goes along with his group
My Viking Paladin of conquest: I agree *threatens to blow up a cathedral first session*
My paladin was an idiot and used thundering smite in a pyramid waking up a horde of mummies and almost got us all killed.
The lvl 1 Paladin probably: “Yeah yeah laugh it up chuckle fucks you just wait till we start going up lvls I bet you’ll want me around when my very presence is giving you all +3 to every save, or when I can pop a boss like a balloon. Oh what’s that your hurt or have a condition that my lay on hands can fix, sorry all I’m good for is tanking.” * proceeds to smite the evil thing into oblivion. *
*Vibes in Paladin + Sorcerer*
"due to the Barbarian you have your work cut out for you"
meme artificer:
meme bard:
meme warlock: yah yah... ZZZ
This armor looks so good on you!
Everyone who uses paladins be like: so anyway I started spreading the word of god
Rouge: you’re covered in blood
Paladin: that’s what I said
Bruh my paladin scream BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD to heal him self
The Oath of Throwing it Back Paladin is too much for this world
The "lay on hands" joke was beautifully written.
Oath of Vengeance and Conquest just chained in a corner to prevent their "justice"
As paladin being on my favorite classes in anything I feel this down to every last word
As a rogue who fell a Hydra from more than 800 feet away with a critical longbow, I can safely say that I enjoy having a paladin as a friend and an ally
I don't know about Paladins man but I do know that this armor looks really sick!
I mean I was playing an oath breaker and just stood there as cultist stole the souls of several defenseless children he could of done something but he didn’t
My oath of vengeance paladin: morally good, and upstanding citizens? HA!
This gives me Wizards101 class selection vibes
I started playing paladin mid campaign at lvl 5 or 7 I think and my dm buffed me because I'm the only tank and now I Just bulldoze half our enemies and shrug off most attacks. Plus I created a knight order so I am accompanied by at least 3 more paladins most of the time who flank the enemy and we all devine smite together. Truly a euphoric experience.
One of my players had 1 level of cleric, and then went paladin after that... except for 3 levels of celestial warlock late-game (carrying around a saint's reliquary). Cantrips for ranged battle, a divine domain, can't lose her weapon, gets a few spell slots back every short rest... yeah she was friggin O.P. as... uh, _heck._
(whew, narrowly dodged a smiting there 😅)
Before level 3 there’s nothing stopping a paladin from being a murder hobo.
Then they become an Oathbreaker instead of whatever Oath they would've had if they were *too much* of a murder hobo. There are upsides to everything I suppose.
Playing with a paladin, we were saving towns from giants
First session after our paladin died...
We may have... burnt an entire town to the ground because we got robbed at the inn..
Great video! Just sent it to the Paladin in the party.
Yesssssss, may everyone be roasted equally!
This is why I’m glad my dm allowed us to start at level 3! I am a useful paladin of vengeance
I like how the sword has a cloaking feature.
Can I just say btw that outfit looks cool on you
Indeed. Where did it come from I wonder?
I was a Redemption Paladin my last game. My rolls and AC drove my DM crazy.
When I played dnd rise of tiamat, I was a oath of the ancients paladin and my party respects me on the first session. A bug bear or a hobgoblin nearly killed our ranger and I was in a Bush waiting for a opportunity to attack got a nat 20 to hit the hob and delt 32 points of damage. Basically the dm said that when my warhammer collided with the hob's mid section it sent a shock wave through the hobgoblin basically liquified his internal organs and leaving him on 1 hp left. The whole party was only level 1.😅
I just like how the sword sometimes turns to grass
Just started a warforged oath of vengeance palladin that has crippling anxiety and fear because he doesn't know if he would still be alive tomorrow (because we dont know how long they can live) he is depressed and has no hope or dreams in life because, why bother if you die tomorrow. But he made an oath to other warforged from his batch that were all killed 30 years ago from the war that he would kill their creator but still obeys anyone commanding him because that's all he knows yet. That's the only thing that forces him to move at all.
Love these little videos, equally love the legendary Grass Sword~
My DM and I work shopped a paladin who's oath was to a devil and his oath was so powerful when they died he resurrected into a revenant and now they're an undead Devil loving tank just eviscerating enemies with necrotic damage
Pretty accurate for a Devotion paladin at 1st level. Of couse once you do get smite your killcount goes through the roof.
I actually have a goblin paladin who worships shiny rocks and is the chaotic one in the party
*Laughs in Naga Paladin (Ancients!) that's slowly turning the party towards cannibalism*
Anyone notice the paladin has a magic sword? It disappears at times hiding itself into the background.
Watch the sword when he says "your inclined to be the goody two shoes saint"
Oh geez, the barbarian and wizard in my party are so bloodthirsty, and me (paladin) and the Druid normally go after their turns so we basically clean up after them until they piss off a new population.
I'm the paladin in our group with no other healers or tanks. I'm also the babysitter because THEY ARE ALWAYS GETTING INTO GODDAMN TROUBLE IF I LOOK AWAY FOR ONE SECOND. Fun and hilarious lol
Playing oath of vengeance gives you so much freedom even as lawful good
I swear you look amazing in that armor
*laughs in Oath of Conquest Dragonborn Paladin devoted to Tiamat*
Yo this is low-key spot on 🤣
Oath of the Ancients is my favorite oath because it lets you play as a character with more personality than a single trait.
Party: planing on a distraction
Me paladin oath breaker: ..... how about i beet up the druid...
I played my first paladin today and immediately was put in the baby sitting roll lol
I play my paladin slightly different. Playing in a pirate themed campaign, think of my character as Elizabeth swan from pirates of the Caribbean. Starts from royalty and is lawful good, slowly turning to chaotic good. Currently I just want to rid the seas of evil pirates and sea creatures. I probably have way more blood lust than our barbarian does. I definitely hit harder and more often then she does.
Fun thing: for our campaign I play as a half foot teifling. Our barbarian and everyone else in the party, aside from the dm, won’t let me fight god
For some background behind it:
We’re all level 6 and tend to have a ton of fun messing around, even if our dm likes to through emotional rollercoasters at us. For our last one we were all saying how we are gods and I’m over here, a chaotic 9 year old child, saying “We can Fight God.” I get a bunch of no’s before being backed up cause, technically, God’s used to fight each other all the time.
It was interesting to hear-
Idea, evil paladin who uses the sense evil thing to sense out other evil people and plot with them
I feel every part of this so hard. My only job is to treat my hp like a yoyo so the magus can look good.
Okay wait, that armor is bad ass, need details
Who needs healing when the most common types of damages are halved?
At level there I became the hero of the party. With my great sword and 2 active smites
I have played games where the bard has more blood lust than the Demons we were slaying
Through an "unholy" combination of cloak, ring, and blessing of protection and my +3 shield my AL character has 27 AC but I am so weak in the damage department the only thing I can do is tank. not like I get a chance to have my turn before everyone is dead anyway.
"That evil smells like rotten eggs and good sounds like a choir of angels."
Insert me and my pallock, whose patron would probably lean to the more biblically accurate eldritch angels.
I like the idea of paladin being lawful good, because when I play my chaotic good paladin DMS be like "you cant do that you have to be lawful" and me being "yes and technically no you see my deity is chaotic and is good so my character is just following his deities footsteps." Dm 😥😥 but the.. its says in da rules
Thankfully, my campaign takes place in a world where the gods have abandoned everyone, and I’m an Oath of Vengeance paladin. True neutral ain’t bad
I played a very evil paladin who craved for blood lust and one shot strahd. I named her Luna light
Especially when you're a Minotaur paladin oath of vengeance 🎉🎉 and yes that Homebrew got weird 🤔 darn me for listen to the DM on what I should play
*snorts in Oath of Vengeance paladin*
I quite enjoy bein' the wall, get all enemies focus so the team can end them
oath of glory says I do cool shit for the sake of being cool 😂
What if a paladin became a warlock multieclass?
Paladin aka the Dad or Mom of the party.
I am currently in a campaign as a half-ork paladin with chain mail armor and an enchanted great sword that gives me +4d6 to my rolls for damage and I can’t help but give 5 gold to those I think need help or just to help people understand my intentions but I in no way would let some person bully me or others around it is in the path to protect the weak after all. Also my god is Helm chillest of them all.
Jokes on you I move the fastest in the party
MY PARTY HAS 3 PALADINS
Me: chaotic good Tiefling paladin rogue who heals everyone, has a wife, eats quesadillas, has a robot hand, and kills everything
Our party of 4 was called the FDA (five dumb a*ses I doubt we had a collective intellince score over 50)
who else thinks of oath of throwing it back paladin and nuclear paladin whenever they hear about this class?
We think the same... thank you One Shot Questers 😂
Paladin has to be a good guy, meanvile oath of conquest and vengence: scul we tell him?
And then there Michael Bryant from the prince division.
My party only had spellcasters so I decided to go with paladin. Level 2 I get a natural 20 with my lance and smite: 32 damage on a wolf
Combat with a paladin is kinda fun huh
Why is nobody talking about the armour
....where did you get that armour?! I am looking for something just like it for a cosplay!
Me: laughs in Oathbreaker
Healing Tank is best Tank even if its creepy and believe me it can get really creepy
imma lazy bag of chips so i really like being a tank
As a a Warlock whose gonna go into Paladin for some sick extra stuff..with my DM wanting my Patron as my God for it...I think my Chaotic Good Sea Monster Mom wants blood. So she will get blood.
This is perfect man😂
Then theres Vengence Paladin that is basically the Punisher
I am convinced that the only reason why paladins are moral babysitters is because evil LITERALLY smells more fowel than a baked cooked skunk and they just want the suffering to stop
He kinda sounds like Nevercake from league of legends cartoon.
Oath of nurgle paladin go hard
* laughs in Soulles Being *
This is a PSA, you do not have to be a good paladin. You can be morally grey or even evil, you just have to make sure to follow the rules of your oath, lest your DM makes you an oathbreaker.
For this, I'd reccomend a conquest, vengeance, or oathbreaker paladin, cause none of these are really good or evil, but can be played both ways very easily
Bonus points if you multiclass hexblade warlock for extra flavor, and an (imo) much stronger build than just pure paladin
Charismatic damage sponge.