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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6876066" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Fair enough. Paladin seems a bit of an odd choice then, but we're also talking about levels 1 and 2, so every character is a bit fragile.Based on the comments that have followed, my take on how you view things (and I could be wrong) is that you don't like to be hit in combat. You prefer to not take a hit rather than absorb a hit. And I do think that's one way that this edition has changed a bit from prior ones...HP recovery is way more robust in 5E than almost any other edition, with only 4E comparing. As such, the game expects you to lose HP. So if your view that "getting your ass kicked is not awesome" means "I don't like to lose HP", then yeah, I think you may have to shift your thinking a bit and start taking some hits and not looking at it as a negative. I don't expect most characters to make it through combat without taking some hits, except the ones that really focus on avoiding melee and maintaining cover at all costs. A paladin doesn't really fit that mindset too much, although you can play any character however you like. It just sounds like if you're not finding the character you've chosen to play to be fun, you may want to change up how you play him. It almost sounds to me like a Rogue would have been a decent house for you. They're all about hanging on the perifrary of combat and then bouncing in with a sneak attack, and then out with their cunning action. And if they do get hit, they roll with it for half damage. That sound some like the role you want.Having said that, I'm sure as you level up the Paladin, you'll be more happy. You say you want to play him more offensively minded...once you can smite, you'll see his damage output spike. Well, ultimately anyone can come up with a reason to play any class however they want. I don't mind that at all. But I don't know if he's happy, which is why I said what I did. There's not a lot of synergy between his class choice and his play style. That may improve over time as the Paladin gets more abilities and the fragility of low levels inherent in all classes fades.</blockquote>

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