Paladin suggestions

[Gnome]

I've recently lost a character, and now I've brought in a new one at 4th-level: a human paladin. I'm pretty happy with the build so far, but would like ideas for future development: feats, stat points, must-have items, etc.

Here's him now:

STR: 16
DEX: 8
CON: 14
INT: 10
WIS: 14
CHA: 14

Feats: Power Attack, Cleave, Extra Smiting

His main weapon is a +1 adamantine greatsword. I like combining power attacks with smite evil and/or charging to convert the extra +2 or +4 to hit to an extra 4 or 8 points of damage.

At 5th-level, I'm taking the charging smite alternate paladin ability from the PHB II (instead of a special mount, you can do 3 times the smite damage if you smite on a successful charge).

Given all this, it seems like taking feats relating to charging might make sense, but I'm not sure if any would be appropriate. If not charging feats, I'm not sure what else might be good: weapon focus, maybe? Practiced spellcaster to bump paladin spellcaster level? Zen archery to help with ranged attacks?

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

 

[hong]

Leap Attack (CAdv) is an obvious choice.

 

[Darklone]

For ranged attacks, I'd rather buy a circlet of blasting.

Divine Might would be an obvious choice since you're probably going to look for CHA boost items. That Divine feat that gives temp hitpoints and movement increase is great as well.

 

[Angerland]

I agree with Divine Might. It's from complete Warrior. Lets you add your CHA bonus to damage I believe in place of a turning attempt which is very nice.

 

[FalcWP]

If you're going to use an adamantine weapon, grab Improved Sunder. If you aren't going to be sundering, rethink the Adamantine thing. And, if you do sunder, you might as well think about the five ranks of Hide for insurance in case you go evil.

 

[the Jester]

I think Divine Might is generally a must-have feat for a melee-oriented paladin. If you weren't going with the greatsword for this guy I would recommend you take Divine Shield. As it is, I'll agree with FalcWP: if you're going to take Improved Sunder, you should take a few ranks in Hide... just in case.

 

[Particle_Man]

Depending on your # of fights per day, you could keep taking Extra Smiting feats to get more Smite action.