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<blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 9360360" data-attributes="member: 5435">I think 5E gave us some good innovations around the Paladin archetype. Oath of the Ancients for more of a Green Knight/Avalon Knight vibe, Oath of Vengeance for... Batman(?). And lots of other suggested oaths in supplements.The storytelling conceit of a Paladin is that in exchange for committing themselves wholly to a supernatural/moral cause, they get some divine power. Very similar to Warlocks in that regard. Also D&amp;D has plenty of supernatural evil. Paladins can be devil hunters, demon hunters, undead hunters, and so on. Come to think of it they make a better ranger than the ranger in that respect.So if you want to get away from the traditional, AD&amp;D-like paladin you can do pretty well by nixing the basic Oath (detect and smite &quot;evil&quot;) and reinforcing some of the others. In fact, I agree with you that the farther we get from the &quot;armored knight&quot; archetype, the better the class becomes. Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fuindordm, post: 9360360, member: 5435"] I think 5E gave us some good innovations around the Paladin archetype. Oath of the Ancients for more of a Green Knight/Avalon Knight vibe, Oath of Vengeance for... Batman(?). And lots of other suggested oaths in supplements. The storytelling conceit of a Paladin is that in exchange for committing themselves wholly to a supernatural/moral cause, they get some divine power. Very similar to Warlocks in that regard. Also D&D has plenty of supernatural evil. Paladins can be devil hunters, demon hunters, undead hunters, and so on. Come to think of it they make a better ranger than the ranger in that respect. So if you want to get away from the traditional, AD&D-like paladin you can do pretty well by nixing the basic Oath (detect and smite "evil") and reinforcing some of the others. In fact, I agree with you that the farther we get from the "armored knight" archetype, the better the class becomes. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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