Paul Farquhar
Legend
Aside from this being clearly OP, I wouldn't allow any homebrew that I hadn't already decided to incorporate into my setting.
Does any other race give an at-will first level spell equivalent? I don't think so, and I think it's overpowered. This is on top of my general objection to race spam (adding race after race, or subrace after subrace, to a setting detracts from that setting's identity, in my judgment).
Speaking of shillelagh, that's pretty much what the racial ability is, just usable with all weapons and with Cha.
Considering getting Cha to attack is something any character can do with a one-level dip in Hexblade, I'd rather them just use a racial ability and get on with the slightly cheesy flavor.
Sure. If it was being published by a reputable third-party publisher, I would probably comment that it's too strong for current community expectations. But I consider the boundaries for what should be published to be much stricter than something that would actually break a campaign. As I said in my first response, I consider the balance in 5e to be pretty loose.Except that it's lacking all of the direct and indirect limitations of that spell, such as being a druid.
I don't think there you will find a consensus anywhere that thinks that Shillelagh, improved for any weapon, would be a reasonable Paladin cantrip. A CHR focused front liner, a much more powerful framework then Druid for a melee spell.
I personally feel that Hexblade 1/Paladin X or Sword Bard X don't break the game, so I don't think a racial ability that does something similar breaks the game either.Yeah, we basically avoid paladins dipping hexblade at our tables because it's extra cheesy. Oh, and this is even more limburger because at least Hexblade is limited that it won't work with two handed weapons (without a 3 level dip and picking up pact of the blade).
In other words, this worse then what we already avoid at our tables because it's too cheesy. I'd tend to say that crosses the line for bringing in homebrew/3rd party.