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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5263309" data-attributes="member: 20741">Off the top of my head?Blaze of Glory: Paladin automatically is healed to -1 and is stabilized, all allies within 30 feet healed 1d6 per 2 levels, all evil adversaries damaged 1d6 per two levels (save for half) is pretty cool. Essentially a positive energy burst which both heals and harms. Also cool is a new contingency style spell which heals the Paladin as an immediate action as the Paladin falls unconscious. I'm down? Nope: I'm back up! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Essentially, an extremely useful "you can't kill me" spell. I think this one may prove to be significantly overpowered in practice, tbh.  A massive blow from a dragon or some other catastrophic damage can still kill the Paladin, but ordinary armed combat? Especially considering the Paladin will have a high constitution for some extra "cushion" if brought into the negatives? Nope. A mid to high level Paladin is now exceedingly hard to kill. Mind you, an 8th level plus Paladin, charisma and strength buffed + hasted, is going to be giving better than its getting against most huge monstrous things capable of doing significant melee damage in one blow. Evil dragons who fight Paladins toe-to-toe are soon-to-be dead, evil dragons. Smite evil (and Aura of Justice) still rock the Bad Guys' World. Add in a bonded weapon at 8th level?  = Dead dragon. Undead? Even a high level lich or other powerful high CR undead is unlikely to survive going toe-to-toe against a hasted 8th level + Paladin. Just too many Will saves against disruption to make successfully. Fail that roll even once and the Lich/Vampire/Other Undead is just so much dust in the wind. Give that Paladin enough attacks? Even a lich will fail its save, too. It's only a matter of time.Is there power creep in the APG? Damn right there is. Is it fun? Yup, sure is. That's the inherent contradiction in all of these expansion rules.</blockquote>

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