Remember, when you wanna divine smite with your fists... Your DM is allowed to forego any rule they damn well feel like, and should forego said rules o3o.
Step one: allow unarmed strike smites. Step two: wait for all the Full Metal Alchemist Armstrong builds to flood the community Step three: Bask in his glory.
Technically Armstrong uses a weapon, he basically uses a kind of brass knuckles that are combined with gauntlets to make it easier to grapple as well. Easy work around be a paladin, equip brass knuckles...go fist of the north star with smites, bonus points to dip into monk for flurry of blows, or fighter for action surge.
Welp unarmed strike smites are already allowed RAW. It says a melee weapon attack, but unarmed strikes actually count as melee weapon attacks, it was even confirmed. Otherwise monks wouldn't be able to stunning strike with their fists since it also mentions melee weapon attacks. Guess D&D wiews ''these hands' as a valid weapon option.
@@pungoblin9377Best thing is to consider what your tenets mean to your character and to run these over with your dm! That and remember that it's a group co-op game and you aren't the mc, you all are. Now then back to figuring out how to conjure infinite frogs
@@pungoblin9377 talk with your dm and get their idea of the world and how your character could fit in. paladins can sometimes be overbearing with too much deus vult and add extreme dps, they tend to steal the spotlight. I'd advice sharing in the spotlight in and out of combat and playing for the group. Paladins can make for great defenders and buffers in the rght situations, not just big bonky boys xD hope this helped and good luck :)
@@TeraclonPaladins could be stereotypical lawful stupid characters… or they could be what most pallys are, actual characters with morals and ideas beyond follow law, retake holy land. Also they only have that dpr is you’re in melee, and willing to forgo half of being a paladin, and also that dpr isn’t that good. Basically, you’re falling into the classic fifth edition fallacy of overrating Divine Smite. Don’t do that. Paladins are usually pretty good to have at your table unless it’s a stereotypical unfun one. Paragon, unconditionally heroic paladins are fun to have around, the stereotype from editions before 4th is not, and as previously stated the dpr isn’t that crazy and has a bad opportunity cost. TL;DR Play what you want, mostly how you want, and flavor is free so if you want the paladin gameplay loop but none of the paladin flavor, yeah sure, have fun with that.
@@pungoblin9377 The best thing to remember is Your Paladin makes the Oath, not their party. They are honor bound to uphold this standard, that isn't true of everyone else.
Actually, paladins can, because while they are limited to melee weapons for their smites, weirdly enough unarmed strikes are considered melee weapons in 5E.
I'm playing an Oath of Glory Paladin who's basically a Scottish Gallowglass adventurer who's gone back to adventuring because it's what he loves, and it's a blast. This is a super fun subclass.
I'd love to see a "you might be a wildfire druid" some day. The way you hype up classes is so fuckin amazing🤣 currently playing a wildfire druid and it's so damn fun!
I've only ever made one paladin. And he was a Variant Human Glory Paladin. He's also one of the only characters whose family I also made character sheets for. His wife is an Orc shaman who he fell in love with after being captured by her tribe. And their son is a Half-Orc Valor Bard.
Oath of Conquest for me. Spiritual Weapon and Extra Attack are my jam on a spellblade type. Add Magic Missle and I'd probably be playing a College of Swords Bard at that point. I just don't wanna.
I don't usually like a video, but this one was VERY entertaining. Paladin is my favorite class, and the "SMITE!" Made me laugh every time. Good job man!
YES glory paladin! I remember reading their abilities and thinking they were the coolest but a bunch of people online said they were mid so I ended up going with a different subclass for my current campaign. I still think I went with the right choice, but MAN would I love to play full path of glory one day
I'll just say this: My group was in a zone that temporarily buffed us the lvl 20, and my Glory Paladin riding his Pegasus almost single handedly took down an Empyrean (with some healing from the druid). Gods, I miss playing that character sometimes.
Great class. However for those who are trying to figure out the RP side of the character might I suggest this. I’m playing a lvl 13 Minotaur Paladin. He is all about hogging the spotlight for personal glory, but not for the reasons you might think. You see, he believes that the more legendary he becomes the more he can inspire the masses to push their limits to be the best they can be in their chosen field. It’s through this inspiration that he believes he brings glory to his god and serves his god. So yes he can be a bit reckless and an egomaniac, but it’s central to how he plays in game. Would love to hear how you RP yours
While I haven’t played one, I would imagine a good motivation would be to try and restore honor to your family. In that regard, it actually becomes a less evil-coded oath of vengeance style paladin as you try to right your personal wrongs.
I wonder if a glory paladin seeking the attention of a particular demigod, god, or hero makes sense? Maybe someone who COULD have been a warlock, but is convinced the best way to earn their patron's respect is to refuse any of their gifts and instead train like Goku? 😂
I played a Lizardfolk Glory Paladin a while back who would spend his free time making gear for the rest of the party. The man's Persuasion was the best in the group, and one time his Interception saved a party member by one hit point. We never finished the campaign, but I can't think of many times I had that much fun playing DND.
Currently playing this subclass and having a blast. Very paladin lite. I'm the Captain America of the group. Took interceptor fighting style and inspiring leader as my only feat just keeping my party up fighting. Very paladin lite too.
I’m so used to running campaigns for paladins yet never have played one. I have loved the theme of the Glory paladin since I saw the play test for it and have been eagerly awaiting a campaign where no one else picks the paladin straight away to play one!
I usually play cg paladins from either vengeance, Conquest, devotion or redemption I think I found a new favorite and I strongly believe this subclass is underestimated and need more love because you feel like a perfect attack and support paladin with this subclass
I had a comedic concept for a Glory Paladin once. If anyone still remembers that old sitcom "The adventures of Pate and Pete", my glory paladin was pretty much Artie, "The strongest man... in the world".
glory paladins are so underrated. i feel like their subclass features offers the best mix of teamwork, support, and active combat efficacy 1. their oath is probably the most flexible/non-contentious oath when it comes to general teamwork and decision making. the oath is basically striving to make good stories, and ensuring that you and your party are better today than they were yesterday 2. unlike almost every other channel divinity, a glory paladin can actually make use of their 3rd level class feature not just every day, but every combat they have channel divinity available -and the effects last all day. namely in inspiring smite, which doesn't burn your action, so there's no real setup or cost to action economy unless you're a PAM build. temp hp will always be useful in every adventuring day, *and again it lasts for the full day*. so you could actually give yourself like 12-30 temp hp, short rest, then give 12-30 more temp hp to another party member, repeat 3. extra movement in actual practice comes in handy quite often. so many situations where 30ft is *just* out of range of an enemy or some other important objective. not to mention that it often gives players easier opportunities to flank, which is a rule that every table i've ever played at in the last half decade has used. you basically get infinite access to what's essentially the vengeance paladin's main crowning feature for no real resource cost, *and* give it to the party member you're flanking with. all it takes is literally the most basic amount of teamwork. not to mention niche non-combat situations where extra movement is useful in general 4. haste. do i really need to say more? beyond the reminder that if you pick up res con you'll likely have +10 to con saving throws by level 9, meaning you outright can't fail a concentration check until you take at least 24 damage in one hit, or 44 damage before the odds will be against you. even if you don't take res con and have a +7 to con saving throws, you'd still need to take at least 38 damage before the odds are against you succeeding 5. if you get to high levels, the level 15 ability is probably one of the best level 15 paladin subclass features
This vid validates some of my past ideas for Centaur Glory Paladin. All those buffs to speed on horse person decked out in full plate. Might not be top speed, but definitely sounds like it'd be up there.
"Have you ever picked a fight with an immortal eldritch nightmare for the love of the game?" - that's generally my whole shtick for playing games. Find the biggest, toughest bastard and fight it 'til one of us falls down.
Playing a warlock currently for tomb of inhalation. Kinda lost the point of the character amd a little disappointed with the warlock class so I'm playing him very "evil/suicidal" so that either 1 he keeps living and antics ensue or 2 he dies amd my I get to play my backup character who is in fact: a paladin looking for said eldritch warlock lol
3:54 You might not be able to smite with your bare hands, you can smite with your claws if they are natural weapons. Path of the beast barbarian and Alter Self spell. Not to mention those races changed by MMM.
You talked about smiting so much the TH-cam AI thought you were talking about Smite the MOBA lol. Also, if you are taking recommendations, I hope you do a video on the Tempest Cleric. I know it's not the best made subclass (it's from the 2014 Players hand book), but it's the one I played the most and have the best memories
One of my favourite chars is Hafling Paladin of Glory He uses knuckles He is SHORT He uses all the smites possible to uppercut enemies of Sune (aka grumpies) where it counts so hard, sometimes my dm lets me force their head to explode
I feel like this was made to be multi classed with champion fighter. Action surgue is always great on a martial, you get extra wepon proficients if you want/need them for your build, boosted crit is terrifying with smight, and the flavor is just right there.
Fun fact If you wanna lay down the smackdown with your fists as a Paladin, ask your DM to reflavor a sword as brass knuckles. Same mechanics, but GLORIOUS flavor.
To be fair to Improved Divine Smite, the idea is basically that you are now so in-tune with your SMITE that some of it is always leaking out on every attack even when you don't consciously invoke it (and it does add that extra die even when you SMITE properly so yeah).
I'm sorry but if I'm DMing a game, and the pally has monk levels or the unarmed fighting style, I'm letting them consider their fist as weapons to smite with because its just cool and isn't any more powerful then any other weapon. Its silly.
If I were to stat Steve Harrington as a D&D character, I'd totally use Oath of Glory Paladin. I mean, the subclass aura is all about encouraging your charges to run faster lol perfect for that sequence in Season 2 when they were running away from the demodogs in the tunnels.
So max level you can divine smite is 4th level for 5d8. For fiends and undead you get a bonus of 1d8 for a total 6d8. Since it happens on all melee attacks, Improved gets you that 6d8 all the time with an additional 1d8 on fiends and undead for 7d8. Thats why its improved. Every smite is done at 1+ spell level.
I started by questioning myself; there is always a god of beauty, love, art, ecc, and usually we see their equivalent of a cleric...but how a paladin would work for her?. So i ended up creating a goliath paladin that want to be like one of those heroes from the epic tales, aspiring to physical and mental perfection while inspiring the others with his own glorious example of perfection in every situation.
If you wanna attribute this to an actual sport, the easiest reflavoring would probably be baseball: - turn your maul into a baseball bat - ranged spell attacks are pitching or hitting a magically conjured baseball - is a team sport, so defending your allies and running up to them makes sense Or convince your DM to allow Unarmed Fighting and homebrew some magical cleats to make it work for football!
I let paladins smite on unarmed strikes in my games. You’re channeling divine energy to annihilate your foes through your violent wrath. Punching counts
Could you make some not-so-good subclasses feel badass? Like those Purple Dragon Knights or Nature Clerics, or even Dream Druids... If you're feeling bold, I could toss that Way of the 4 Elements Avatar Monk.
In the sage advice compendium, they state,"If a DM decides to override this rule, no imbalance is created. Tying Divine Smite to weapons was a thematic choice on our part-paladins being traditionally associated with weapons. It was not a game balance choice. "
3:58 uhm AVTUALLY smite requires a melee weapon attack, not an attack with a melee weapon. Every melee attack is either weapon or spell, and since punch isnt a spell, a punch is still a melee weapon attack. So unarmed smite is a go!
Paladin is very fun in roleplay but a word of warning for people who play them: be very conservative of your spell slots because their early on spells are not great and the slots are better used for smiting when you need it. When you have no slots you just kinda feel like a worse Fighter.
I've got an Oath of Glory Paladin who's follows Horus Re... And she's an ABSOLUTE coward. 🤣 Can't enter fights without Channeling Divinity for herself, going from Usopp to All Might in anime terms. WISH I could play her in a campaign.
Wait a minute, why is Divine Smite capped at 5d8? If your smite does 2d8 for a 1st Level spell slot and you get an additional 1d8 for every spell slot higher than 1st, shouldn't it cap at 6d8 since a 5th Level spell slot would represent an 4 extra 1d8? Am I missing something here? Why does a 5th Level Divine Smite do the same damage as a 4th Level Divine Smite?
"You step up to me thinkin you can handle the best, but you see there is no equal. For the cream.. rises to the top" -Macho Man Glory Paladin
"Who are you?"
"Just a guy who's a paladin for fun!"
"What kind of oath is that?!"
A very petty vengeance paladin
Remember, when you wanna divine smite with your fists...
Your DM is allowed to forego any rule they damn well feel like, and should forego said rules o3o.
So apart from Lay On Hands, we also get Catch These Hands
RAW you can smite by punching people but the damage doesn’t double on crits
So basically if I have a cool DM I can do a monk/paladin build with radiant fists
@@militaryjones9468 if you don't have a cool DM get or make a set of brass knuckles.
RAW.... I also dumb o3o
Step one: allow unarmed strike smites.
Step two: wait for all the Full Metal Alchemist Armstrong builds to flood the community
Step three: Bask in his glory.
Perfect. Also guess what unarmed smites are RAW in base 5e as unarmed strikes are melee weapon attacks
Step 4: profit
This divine smite has been passed down the Armstrong family for generations!
Technically Armstrong uses a weapon, he basically uses a kind of brass knuckles that are combined with gauntlets to make it easier to grapple as well. Easy work around be a paladin, equip brass knuckles...go fist of the north star with smites, bonus points to dip into monk for flurry of blows, or fighter for action surge.
Welp unarmed strike smites are already allowed RAW. It says a melee weapon attack, but unarmed strikes actually count as melee weapon attacks, it was even confirmed. Otherwise monks wouldn't be able to stunning strike with their fists since it also mentions melee weapon attacks. Guess D&D wiews ''these hands' as a valid weapon option.
Paladins can be the best and the worst class to have in your campaign as a GM xD
I’m actually thinking of playing a paladin. Got any tips for how to avoid being a bad player?
@@pungoblin9377Best thing is to consider what your tenets mean to your character and to run these over with your dm! That and remember that it's a group co-op game and you aren't the mc, you all are. Now then back to figuring out how to conjure infinite frogs
@@pungoblin9377 talk with your dm and get their idea of the world and how your character could fit in. paladins can sometimes be overbearing with too much deus vult and add extreme dps, they tend to steal the spotlight. I'd advice sharing in the spotlight in and out of combat and playing for the group. Paladins can make for great defenders and buffers in the rght situations, not just big bonky boys xD
hope this helped and good luck :)
@@TeraclonPaladins could be stereotypical lawful stupid characters… or they could be what most pallys are, actual characters with morals and ideas beyond follow law, retake holy land. Also they only have that dpr is you’re in melee, and willing to forgo half of being a paladin, and also that dpr isn’t that good. Basically, you’re falling into the classic fifth edition fallacy of overrating Divine Smite. Don’t do that. Paladins are usually pretty good to have at your table unless it’s a stereotypical unfun one. Paragon, unconditionally heroic paladins are fun to have around, the stereotype from editions before 4th is not, and as previously stated the dpr isn’t that crazy and has a bad opportunity cost. TL;DR Play what you want, mostly how you want, and flavor is free so if you want the paladin gameplay loop but none of the paladin flavor, yeah sure, have fun with that.
@@pungoblin9377 The best thing to remember is Your Paladin makes the Oath, not their party. They are honor bound to uphold this standard, that isn't true of everyone else.
"Paladins can't smite with unharmed strikes as an official ruling."
Well the official ruling is wrong.
They CAN smite with an improvised weapon. You know, like a gauntlet. So, that's a thing.
Actually, paladins can, because while they are limited to melee weapons for their smites, weirdly enough unarmed strikes are considered melee weapons in 5E.
"I recognize WotC has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."
@@DParkerNunyaGary's immortal words take what you want, Change what you want
@@roguebarbarian9133no. They are just considered melee weapon attacks, not melee weapons
I'm playing an Oath of Glory Paladin who's basically a Scottish Gallowglass adventurer who's gone back to adventuring because it's what he loves, and it's a blast. This is a super fun subclass.
Mind if I steal? Because that's a great yet simple idea. Brings to mind the Scotsman from Samurai Jack!
@@mitchmcginn4250 funnily enough, the Scotsman was part of my inspiration for him. Go for it, have a blast!
I'd love to see a "you might be a wildfire druid" some day. The way you hype up classes is so fuckin amazing🤣 currently playing a wildfire druid and it's so damn fun!
I second that. I love the his videos and how he spins especially with the gloom stalker ranger , twilight cleric, and that shadow Sorcerer lol
Done 2 months ago
I've only ever made one paladin. And he was a Variant Human Glory Paladin. He's also one of the only characters whose family I also made character sheets for. His wife is an Orc shaman who he fell in love with after being captured by her tribe. And their son is a Half-Orc Valor Bard.
Oath of Conquest for me. Spiritual Weapon and Extra Attack are my jam on a spellblade type. Add Magic Missle and I'd probably be playing a College of Swords Bard at that point. I just don't wanna.
"Speaking of mindless chimps, ..." ;;; gold... absolute GOLD!!
I don't usually like a video, but this one was VERY entertaining. Paladin is my favorite class, and the "SMITE!" Made me laugh every time. Good job man!
YES glory paladin! I remember reading their abilities and thinking they were the coolest but a bunch of people online said they were mid so I ended up going with a different subclass for my current campaign. I still think I went with the right choice, but MAN would I love to play full path of glory one day
Played it for a one shot back when it was Unearthed Arcana, and, even at level three it is SO strong.
Playing it now and absolutely enjoying it.
As an avid sports fan (especially basketball) I really appreciate this video. I can't like this one enough.
I'll just say this: My group was in a zone that temporarily buffed us the lvl 20, and my Glory Paladin riding his Pegasus almost single handedly took down an Empyrean (with some healing from the druid). Gods, I miss playing that character sometimes.
What gods?
Great class. However for those who are trying to figure out the RP side of the character might I suggest this. I’m playing a lvl 13 Minotaur Paladin. He is all about hogging the spotlight for personal glory, but not for the reasons you might think. You see, he believes that the more legendary he becomes the more he can inspire the masses to push their limits to be the best they can be in their chosen field. It’s through this inspiration that he believes he brings glory to his god and serves his god. So yes he can be a bit reckless and an egomaniac, but it’s central to how he plays in game. Would love to hear how you RP yours
While I haven’t played one, I would imagine a good motivation would be to try and restore honor to your family. In that regard, it actually becomes a less evil-coded oath of vengeance style paladin as you try to right your personal wrongs.
I wonder if a glory paladin seeking the attention of a particular demigod, god, or hero makes sense? Maybe someone who COULD have been a warlock, but is convinced the best way to earn their patron's respect is to refuse any of their gifts and instead train like Goku? 😂
I played a Lizardfolk Glory Paladin a while back who would spend his free time making gear for the rest of the party. The man's Persuasion was the best in the group, and one time his Interception saved a party member by one hit point. We never finished the campaign, but I can't think of many times I had that much fun playing DND.
Just found your channel today and binge watched all of these at work...I NEED MORE!!! MOOOOREE!!!
Currently playing this subclass and having a blast. Very paladin lite. I'm the Captain America of the group. Took interceptor fighting style and inspiring leader as my only feat just keeping my party up fighting. Very paladin lite too.
I’m so used to running campaigns for paladins yet never have played one. I have loved the theme of the Glory paladin since I saw the play test for it and have been eagerly awaiting a campaign where no one else picks the paladin straight away to play one!
Glory Paladin is my favorite character to play. Awesome video!
I usually play cg paladins from either vengeance, Conquest, devotion or redemption I think I found a new favorite and I strongly believe this subclass is underestimated and need more love because you feel like a perfect attack and support paladin with this subclass
I had a comedic concept for a Glory Paladin once. If anyone still remembers that old sitcom "The adventures of Pate and Pete", my glory paladin was pretty much Artie, "The strongest man... in the world".
glory paladins are so underrated. i feel like their subclass features offers the best mix of teamwork, support, and active combat efficacy
1. their oath is probably the most flexible/non-contentious oath when it comes to general teamwork and decision making. the oath is basically striving to make good stories, and ensuring that you and your party are better today than they were yesterday
2. unlike almost every other channel divinity, a glory paladin can actually make use of their 3rd level class feature not just every day, but every combat they have channel divinity available -and the effects last all day. namely in inspiring smite, which doesn't burn your action, so there's no real setup or cost to action economy unless you're a PAM build. temp hp will always be useful in every adventuring day, *and again it lasts for the full day*. so you could actually give yourself like 12-30 temp hp, short rest, then give 12-30 more temp hp to another party member, repeat
3. extra movement in actual practice comes in handy quite often. so many situations where 30ft is *just* out of range of an enemy or some other important objective. not to mention that it often gives players easier opportunities to flank, which is a rule that every table i've ever played at in the last half decade has used. you basically get infinite access to what's essentially the vengeance paladin's main crowning feature for no real resource cost, *and* give it to the party member you're flanking with. all it takes is literally the most basic amount of teamwork. not to mention niche non-combat situations where extra movement is useful in general
4. haste. do i really need to say more? beyond the reminder that if you pick up res con you'll likely have +10 to con saving throws by level 9, meaning you outright can't fail a concentration check until you take at least 24 damage in one hit, or 44 damage before the odds will be against you. even if you don't take res con and have a +7 to con saving throws, you'd still need to take at least 38 damage before the odds are against you succeeding
5. if you get to high levels, the level 15 ability is probably one of the best level 15 paladin subclass features
This vid validates some of my past ideas for Centaur Glory Paladin. All those buffs to speed on horse person decked out in full plate. Might not be top speed, but definitely sounds like it'd be up there.
Really blue balling us with that space jam tune. Besides that love the content
woooooo!! yeah baby that's what i've been waiting for that's what it's all about!!!
Showing Matt getting his face rocked was way too funny
"Have you ever picked a fight with an immortal eldritch nightmare for the love of the game?" - that's generally my whole shtick for playing games. Find the biggest, toughest bastard and fight it 'til one of us falls down.
Playing a warlock currently for tomb of inhalation. Kinda lost the point of the character amd a little disappointed with the warlock class so I'm playing him very "evil/suicidal" so that either 1 he keeps living and antics ensue or 2 he dies amd my I get to play my backup character who is in fact: a paladin looking for said eldritch warlock lol
Great video as always! Hope we can get my favorite underrated psychic boi sorcerers sometime soon 🧠
WotC: “Y’all ready for this?”
DM’s around the world: “No.”
3:54 You might not be able to smite with your bare hands, you can smite with your claws if they are natural weapons.
Path of the beast barbarian and Alter Self spell. Not to mention those races changed by MMM.
I love that you mentioned Bo Jackson he's my favorite football player!
You talked about smiting so much the TH-cam AI thought you were talking about Smite the MOBA lol.
Also, if you are taking recommendations, I hope you do a video on the Tempest Cleric. I know it's not the best made subclass (it's from the 2014 Players hand book), but it's the one I played the most and have the best memories
Love using this archetype with a mount they make it faster and harder to target due to their aura.
Another glorious video to bring honor to your channel I await your next broadcast for Glory!
One of my favourite chars is Hafling Paladin of Glory
He uses knuckles
He is SHORT
He uses all the smites possible to uppercut enemies of Sune (aka grumpies) where it counts so hard, sometimes my dm lets me force their head to explode
I feel like this was made to be multi classed with champion fighter. Action surgue is always great on a martial, you get extra wepon proficients if you want/need them for your build, boosted crit is terrifying with smight, and the flavor is just right there.
This was fun! I enjoy these videos a lot. Oath of Ancients paladin next, perhaps?
So I have a Hobgoblin Glory Paladin and let me tell you... It's like I'm back in 3.5e with all this re-rolling I get to do!
Fun fact
If you wanna lay down the smackdown with your fists as a Paladin, ask your DM to reflavor a sword as brass knuckles. Same mechanics, but GLORIOUS flavor.
Warhammer, because bludgeoning damage.
@LupineShadowOmega make it a maul, actually. 2d6 bludgeoning. You could say the individual d6 is for each fist in your 1-2 punch.
Just for showing the Tennessee Volunteers at 00:19 i now have to be a Glory Paladin
this video was so entertaining i watched it twice
Resilient into constitution just so it’s much harder to get knocked out of haste. More benefits less negatives
Another banger as always
To be fair to Improved Divine Smite, the idea is basically that you are now so in-tune with your SMITE that some of it is always leaking out on every attack even when you don't consciously invoke it (and it does add that extra die even when you SMITE properly so yeah).
I'm sorry but if I'm DMing a game, and the pally has monk levels or the unarmed fighting style, I'm letting them consider their fist as weapons to smite with because its just cool and isn't any more powerful then any other weapon. Its silly.
EXACTLY!
If I were to stat Steve Harrington as a D&D character, I'd totally use Oath of Glory Paladin. I mean, the subclass aura is all about encouraging your charges to run faster lol perfect for that sequence in Season 2 when they were running away from the demodogs in the tunnels.
I used to call this the better Champion Fighter since they have the same theme, but this one is better thought out machanics.
So max level you can divine smite is 4th level for 5d8. For fiends and undead you get a bonus of 1d8 for a total 6d8. Since it happens on all melee attacks, Improved gets you that 6d8 all the time with an additional 1d8 on fiends and undead for 7d8. Thats why its improved. Every smite is done at 1+ spell level.
I started by questioning myself; there is always a god of beauty, love, art, ecc, and usually we see their equivalent of a cleric...but how a paladin would work for her?.
So i ended up creating a goliath paladin that want to be like one of those heroes from the epic tales, aspiring to physical and mental perfection while inspiring the others with his own glorious example of perfection in every situation.
Everyone DUNKED on the glory paladin during the polls. They didn't truly know the magnificence
If you wanna attribute this to an actual sport, the easiest reflavoring would probably be baseball:
- turn your maul into a baseball bat
- ranged spell attacks are pitching or hitting a magically conjured baseball
- is a team sport, so defending your allies and running up to them makes sense
Or convince your DM to allow Unarmed Fighting and homebrew some magical cleats to make it work for football!
Babe wake up new “you might be a dnd” video just dropped
Me thinking of Glory Paladin: _I have the power of God and anime on my side!_
YMBA describing Glory Paladin: *_PALADIN IS BALLIN'!!!_*
I played this once in a very homebrewed setting but this dude that i had quite litearlly slam dunked a god out of existance by the end of his life.
"While theyre the greatest to ever play, we're to greatest to ever slay!" 😢 missed opportunities
Found my next character to play as.
Please add Conquest Paladin to the next poll, it’s my absolute favorite subclass ever
I let paladins smite on unarmed strikes in my games. You’re channeling divine energy to annihilate your foes through your violent wrath. Punching counts
Could you make some not-so-good subclasses feel badass? Like those Purple Dragon Knights or Nature Clerics, or even Dream Druids...
If you're feeling bold, I could toss that Way of the 4 Elements Avatar Monk.
Real "COLE TRAIN BABY" energy here
my next smite is gonna be on your name
FOR GLORY, FOR OUR BROTHERS, FOR THE EMPORER
In the sage advice compendium, they state,"If a DM decides to override this rule, no imbalance is created. Tying Divine Smite to weapons was a thematic
choice on our part-paladins being traditionally associated
with weapons. It was not a game balance choice. "
This video SMITES
The Circle of Stars is my favorite Druid subclass, could you make a video about it?
Oathbreaker paladin! Or maybe Stars Druid?
3:58 uhm AVTUALLY smite requires a melee weapon attack, not an attack with a melee weapon. Every melee attack is either weapon or spell, and since punch isnt a spell, a punch is still a melee weapon attack.
So unarmed smite is a go!
OneD&D is allowing fist smites!
Could you do swarm keeper ranger?
Well at least now they can smite on unarmed strikes!
100% certain if Gow'ron from Star Trek played DnD, this is what class he would pick.
Reminder that if you ask your dm to smite with your fists, he'll probably allow it
It's the Jaime Lannister class!
Talk about my baby boy the shadow monk next.
Paladin is very fun in roleplay but a word of warning for people who play them: be very conservative of your spell slots because their early on spells are not great and the slots are better used for smiting when you need it. When you have no slots you just kinda feel like a worse Fighter.
Perfect subclass for a Leonin
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I wanna see a warlock pact of symbiont pls !
Wildfire Druid!
Leonin Glory Paladin get 45 feet of movement. Throw haste on that, and nothing is getting away
Oath of ballin
You think you would ever do the 3rd party sub-classes? Like with Kobold Press?
Love it
i rolled my stats for my dragon born paladin and got an 18 on strength so i started campaing at 20 strength so i just had to go oath of glory
is there a certain website or 2 that you got this info from?
My first paladin was a glory paladin
A paladin with Brass knuckles .
Peerless Athlete stacking with Bulls Strength means you can hit 4xlift strength and start having *advanced fun*
I've got an Oath of Glory Paladin who's follows Horus Re... And she's an ABSOLUTE coward. 🤣 Can't enter fights without Channeling Divinity for herself, going from Usopp to All Might in anime terms. WISH I could play her in a campaign.
Wait cant yout homebrew barbarian do unarmed smites?
The only issue is teabagging while wearing full plate armour.
As someone who hasn’t played D&D, the news you can’t smite bare handed greatly saddened me
Oathbreaker Paladin pls
Dude went the extra mile not to say Tom Brady 😂
Are there other classes besides Paladin?? Huh, didn’t notice.
If take two lvls into fighter, can I attack 8 times?
Wait a minute, why is Divine Smite capped at 5d8? If your smite does 2d8 for a 1st Level spell slot and you get an additional 1d8 for every spell slot higher than 1st, shouldn't it cap at 6d8 since a 5th Level spell slot would represent an 4 extra 1d8? Am I missing something here? Why does a 5th Level Divine Smite do the same damage as a 4th Level Divine Smite?
Smiting is overrated, only smite when you crit. Otherwise those spell slots are usually more impactful than 7 extra damage.
SMITE!