The Problem with Paladins in D&D



D&D Paladins get the worst rap out of all the DnD classes. Why?
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/15z89C_VyKWBP5W4WIOLa__JCQyhquAffsJ_qsnQ60hA/edit?usp=share_link

Video Editing by the amazing Bia: https://twitter.com/BnazF
Writing, Illustration, and Narration by me: https://twitter.com/antodemico
Additional sketches by the amazing Fey: https://twitter.com/feymilde

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21 thoughts on “The Problem with Paladins in D&D”

  1. My first ever character was a Oath of Ancients Dragonborn named Skolas. The last survivor of a tribe of druidic Dragonborn who lived in a forest that got destroyed by agents of the bbeg. His favorite things were trees, good times, and apples, oh so many apples. A bag of holding of apples. Definitely didn't eat a golden apple gifted by an aspect of bbeg. It worked out okay…mostly.

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  2. Love the video. Love the character. Checking out the build.
    My one disagreement: narrow moral codes are a feature of the Paladin, not a bug. Yes, that everyone assumed the SAME moral code is a bit annoying, but the idea is essentially to tie the character’s power to the roleplay of a particular morality. Even within Lawful Good, you don’t need to be a Stick-in-the-Mud. You can search the home of a corrupt noble if you have something like probable cause because no one is above the law. You can seize artifacts that belong to others for the greater good, taking personal responsibility for fighting any injustice associated. It’s only a problem if you’re not willing to work on it, which can be said about any trope.

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  3. THANK YOU! I've been saying this for years! Like for example, what if you have an Oathbreaker that literally breaks their oath and turns away from an evil god? Are they still evil then? And saying that they should instead switch their class to something like Oath of Redemption doesn't hold up if they don't make another oath, but they just wanna improve themselves on their own. Or, heck, what if Oath of Redemption is someone trying to redeem themselves in the eyes of an evil god?
    Overall, trying to restrict paladins to a specific alignment is stupid and I hate it. Thank you for encapsulating my feelings into a nearly 26-mins long video❣

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  4. My paladin was lawful good and my oath was, to burn every red hair woman because they eat souls – to summ up after 20 minutes my party was dead.

    But in my defense: I did not know, that one in my party was a girl with red hair.

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  5. The Love Paladin bouta be giving these bards a run for their money, WHAT!? Even though I had my fingers crossed that you were going to give us the penultimate edgelord dark paladin oath, this actually looks like a lot of fun, and I might have to roll one up, take the shield bash feat and live my Naofumi Shield Hero dreams!

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