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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6345814" data-attributes="member: 2067">In order for me to describe how one might be a Chaladin in 5e, it depends on what things about the Chaladin were definitive to you. This can vary. If what one wants out of a character is heavy armor, swords, and defensive and healing magic in non-DMG'd Official 5e, there's no reason to believe that the actual 5e Paladin class will not supply that, as paladins in all e's do. If what you want is to have that character emphasize having a high Charisma, our Alpha informants tell us that paladin has Charisma-keyed spellcasting and Cha bonus to attack rolls if you're the Devotion-style paladin. If you want that character to be able to basically have a CHA of 20 and never really worry about other ability scores (for instance, have weapon attacks use CHA instead of STR), I imagine that'll take some DMG-ing. It seems entirely in the realm of reasonable options to have a class define its weapon attack rolls with some other ability score (finesse weapons already swap STR for DEX, it shouldn't be a big deal to swap STR for whatever). The ability score cap means there's only so much a character can get out of just pumping up one score to max anyway. Once you've maxed it out, you'll just find yourself probably using feats more than boosts to your other ability scores. Of course, there's other ways. You could be a bard using cure spells and buffs in heavy armor with a fighter level or a feat. You could be a War cleric and swap WIS spellcasting for CHA spellcasting (again, it's pretty reasonable to swap these ability scores around). It depends on what you liked about the Chaladin's mechanics in the first place.And then there's purely hypothetical things like celestial-pact warlocks or celestial-blooded sorcerers or an invoker-style wizard school (all of which seem in the realm of possibility to me, though I don't imagine they'll be in the PHB). But by far the easiest way is just to be a paladin, and make your STR and CHA your highest scores, and not worry about the rest of it.</blockquote>

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