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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 5667521" data-attributes="member: 12328">My advice on playing a paladin is not to.  I was super excited a few years ago about the chance to play a dwarf paladin in the last D&D game our group ran.  In my mind, he was to be a scourge of evil and effective warrior.  In reality, I was very under-powered and largely ineffective.  Even with a cool mount to summon and a dwarven cleric cohort, the character wasn't nearly as cool in play as he was in my mind.  It ended very unsatisfactorily with all 3 killed irreversibly in a single session.  I "took a break" from that game for several months and only returned to play another character, the twinked-out fighter that sidelined my character.  Luckily the other player quit for reasons unknown to me.  I just didn't have the motivation to make another character.  It lasted about 2 more sessions before the other players killed the campaign on a night I had a real-life conflict.   I don't blame the DM.  He's a long-time player, although this was his first time DMing.  He was using modules, so I don't think it was over-challenging (but it felt difficult).  It may have been somewhat the style of our group which for the other players is very cautious & tactical.  As a player of similar experience and a DM of greater experience, I percieved several TPKs that we narrowly missed; one by a blatant deus ex machina to save the campaign.  I am sorry that it ended badly for everyone--especially the DM who abandoned the campaign with one more module to go.  I doubt he'll ever DM again.  Even though I take some vindication that the other players' (mis-)behavior finally caught up to them, I never felt really good about any of it.  I hope your experience will be different, if you do decide to play a paladin.</blockquote>

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