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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6610440">These are largely visual effects.&nbsp; You still hit things with a stick, sometimes it's a bigger stick, sometimes it's a blunt stick, but it's still a stick.&nbsp; Sometimes you wear armor made from cows, sometimes you wear armor made from dragons, sometimes you wear armor made from metal.&nbsp; The end result is a AC of X and a weapon damage of 1dX or 2dX+mod.&nbsp; If weilding a mace is what makes your paladin so different from everyone else's then I suspect there is far more to it than the fact that your paladin wields a mace.&nbsp; I suspect you are RPing up the personal value of that mace to your character.&nbsp; Maybe its a defining feature of where your paladin was trained, maybe it's the symbol of his people or his god, but I think you're being disingenuous if you're going to argue that your paladin is &quot;totally different!&quot; because of a mace.That's pretty much how all the melee classes play though.&nbsp; Once a paladin is out of spell slots, no more smite.&nbsp; Once a paladin is out of channel, no more heals, once a barbarian is out of rage, once a battlemaster is out of superiority dice, etc...From playing a monk, I really disagree with this assessment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6610440"] These are largely visual effects. You still hit things with a stick, sometimes it's a bigger stick, sometimes it's a blunt stick, but it's still a stick. Sometimes you wear armor made from cows, sometimes you wear armor made from dragons, sometimes you wear armor made from metal. The end result is a AC of X and a weapon damage of 1dX or 2dX+mod. If weilding a mace is what makes [I]your[/I] paladin so different from everyone else's then I suspect there is far more to it than the fact that your paladin wields a mace. I suspect you are RPing up the personal value of that mace to your character. Maybe its a defining feature of where your paladin was trained, maybe it's the symbol of his people or his god, but I think you're being disingenuous if you're going to argue that your paladin is "totally different!" because of a mace. That's pretty much how all the melee classes play though. Once a paladin is out of spell slots, no more smite. Once a paladin is out of channel, no more heals, once a barbarian is out of rage, once a battlemaster is out of superiority dice, etc... From playing a monk, I really disagree with this assessment. [/QUOTE]

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