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<blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 7273339" data-attributes="member: 6796241"><p>Paladins are certainly BBEG busters, but they are hardly all powerful. They shine against a single powerful foe and are below average everywhere else.</p><p></p><p>At 10th level, they can smite 9 times per day. In a typical 18 combat round day<strong>*</strong>, that's 36 attacks, call it 27 hits and 2 criticals (assuming they find a way to get advantage on half of their attacks). If they use all of their slots for smites, that's 33% of their attacks that are smite powered, less if you are trying to save some of them for when you crit. At 5th level it's just 5 smites on 27 hits (19%). It maxes at 19th level with 16 smites on 27 hits (59%). </p><p></p><p>And their is no greater gift to a DM than the Paladin's Aura. Yes, please adventurers, by all means huddle together in tight formation while I pepper you with AOE spells. It's also Charisma dependent, which means maxing it reduces what you can put into STR and CON or into good feats.</p><p></p><p><strong>*</strong> Assume a deadly combat takes 6 rounds, hard takes 3 rounds, medium takes 2 rounds and that you are supposed to have 3 Deadly, 6 Hard or 8 Medium (or some combination) per day. Based on the typical length of those combats, the expectation becomes about 18 rounds per day give or take 3 rounds depending on the luck of the dice and the skill of the players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OB1, post: 7273339, member: 6796241"] Paladins are certainly BBEG busters, but they are hardly all powerful. They shine against a single powerful foe and are below average everywhere else. At 10th level, they can smite 9 times per day. In a typical 18 combat round day[B]*[/B], that's 36 attacks, call it 27 hits and 2 criticals (assuming they find a way to get advantage on half of their attacks). If they use all of their slots for smites, that's 33% of their attacks that are smite powered, less if you are trying to save some of them for when you crit. At 5th level it's just 5 smites on 27 hits (19%). It maxes at 19th level with 16 smites on 27 hits (59%). And their is no greater gift to a DM than the Paladin's Aura. Yes, please adventurers, by all means huddle together in tight formation while I pepper you with AOE spells. It's also Charisma dependent, which means maxing it reduces what you can put into STR and CON or into good feats. [B]*[/B] Assume a deadly combat takes 6 rounds, hard takes 3 rounds, medium takes 2 rounds and that you are supposed to have 3 Deadly, 6 Hard or 8 Medium (or some combination) per day. Based on the typical length of those combats, the expectation becomes about 18 rounds per day give or take 3 rounds depending on the luck of the dice and the skill of the players. [/QUOTE]
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