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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 9799826" data-attributes="member: 6795602">IMO. Truly Effective melee characters are mostly about finding a solid combination of damage, durability, stickiness and mobility.  Add in a backup ranged option as well. IMO Vengance as your subclass really shines here.  That would be my recommendation.  Vengance grants the option of hunters mark for damage, misty step and haste for mobility.  Channel divinity gives you advantage for super high accuracy and eventually your OA’s make you much stickier because of the level 7 relentless avenger feature. The next consideration is that Paladin spellslots are very flexible for offense/defense/mobility. This means you aren’t necessarily locked into using sword and shield. Spells can be used to buff your defense instead of your offense. Meaning you can dual wield or use a greatsword and still be defensively fine if you wish. I’ll post some ideas later. And finally we get race and background. Ideally you want to stack as much magic initiate as you can, get darkvision and mobility while maintaining high str 17 or higher is ideal and 16 cha or higher.  You probably cannot get all so you’ll need to prioritize.   This gets a little trickier depending on if your dm doesn’t allow custom backgrounds.</blockquote>