Paladin

Class Features

As a paladin, you have the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per paladin level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your CON modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your CON modifier per paladin level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: All armor and shields

Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons

Tools: None

Saves: WIS, CHA

Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) five javelins or (b) any simple melee weapon
• (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• Chain mail and a holy symbol

Paladin Progression

Level	PB	Features	Spells Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	+2	Divine Sense, Lay on Hands	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+2	Divine Smite, Martial Action, Spellcasting	2	2	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	Paladin Subclass	3	3	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	Improvement	3	3	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	Multiattack (2/Attack Action)	4	4	2	—	—	—
6th	+3	Aura of Protection	4	4	2	—	—	—
7th	+3	Subclass Feature	5	4	3	—	—	—
8th	+3	Improvement	5	4	3	—	—	—
9th	+4	Aura of Courage	6	4	3	2	—	—
10th	+4	Heroic Boon	6	4	3	2	—	—
11th	+4	Subclass Feature	7	4	3	3	—	—
12th	+4	Improvement	7	4	3	3	—	—
13th	+5	Channel Divinity (2/Rest)	8	4	3	3	1	—
14th	+5	Cleansing Touch	8	4	3	3	1	—
15th	+5	Subclass Feature	9	4	3	3	2	—
16th	+5	Improvement	9	4	3	3	2	—
17th	+6	Aura Improvements	10	4	3	3	3	1
18th	+6	Channel Divinity (3/Rest)	10	4	3	3	3	1
19th	+6	Improvement	11	4	3	3	3	2
20th	+6	Epic Boon	11	4	3	3	3	2

Divine Sense

1st-Level Paladin Feature

During your turn, you can open your awareness to detect the presence of supernatural forces (no action required). For 1 minute, you know the location of any Celestial, Fiend, or Undead within 60 feet of you that isn’t behind total cover. You know the creature type of any being whose presence you sense, but you don’t know which specific creature it is. Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated with the hallow spell.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your PB + 1. When you finish a long rest, you regain all uses.

Lay On Hands

1st-Level Paladin Feature

Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to 5 × your paladin level.

As an action, you can touch a willing creature and draw from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool. Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from your pool of healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it. You can cure multiple diseases and neutralize multiple poisons with a single use of this feature, expending hit points separately for each one.

As a bonus action, you can use this feature to affect yourself instead of a different creature. This feature has no effect on Constructs or Undead.

Divine Smite

2nd-Level Paladin Feature

Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one Divine spell slot to deal extra radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s normal damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-circle spell slot, plus 1d8 for each circle higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is a Fiend or Undead.

Martial Action

2nd-Level Paladin Feature

Your tactical expertise allows you to act quickly on the battlefield. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat to perform a weapon option or one of the martial actions granted by this feature.

Choose one of the following martial actions that you know.

Guard

Requires Wielding a Shield

As a bonus action, you raise your shield to intercept incoming attacks. Select one enemy creature within 5 feet of you. That creature has disadvantage on the first attack roll it makes against you or an ally within 5 feet of you before the start of your next turn.

Wind Up

Requires Wielding a Heavy or a Versatile Weapon with Both Hands

As a bonus action, you ready a powerful attack against a nearby target. Select one target you can see within 10 feet of you. If you hit that target with a melee weapon attack before the end of your turn, the first such attack deals extra damage equal to your PB (of the same damage type as the weapon).

Spellcasting

2nd-Level Paladin Feature

At 2nd level, you enhance your martial prowess with the ability to cast Divine spells.

Casting Spells

You know a small number of spells and can cast any of them by using a Divine spell slot of the spell’s circle or higher. You don’t need to prepare spells ahead of time.

The Paladin Progression table shows how many spells you know and how many Divine spell slots you have at a given level. For example, at 5th level, you have four 1st-circle slots and two 2nd-circle slots. If you know the 1st-circle spell bless and have a 1st-circle and a 2nd-circle spell slot available, you can cast bless using either slot. If you use a 1st-circle slot, you have three 1st-circle slots remaining.

You regain all used spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known of 1st Circle and Higher

At 2nd level, choose two 1st-circle spells from the Divine spell list to learn.

The Spells Known column of the Paladin Progression table shows when you learn additional Divine spells. Each spell you choose must be from a circle for which you have Divine spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level as a paladin, you can learn one new Divine spell from the 1st or 2nd circle.

In addition, when you gain a level of paladin, you can choose one Divine spell you know and replace it with another spell of your choice from the Divine spell list. The replacement spell must be of a circle for which you have Divine spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma (CHA) is your spellcasting ability. Your CHA modifier determines the save DC or the attack modifier for certain spells you cast:

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus (PB) + your CHA modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus (PB) + your CHA modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your Divine spells.

Paladin Subclass

3rd, 7th, 11th, and 15th-Level Paladin Feature

Choose a subclass that reflects the oath you swear to uphold. Your choice grants you spells and other features at 3rd, 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

• Devotion
• Justice

Oath Spells

Each paladin subclass has a list of oath spells that you can access as soon as you can cast spells of that circle (as shown in the Paladin Progression table). Once you gain such a spell, it is always on your list of known spells, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you know. However, casting an oath spell still expends a Divine spell slot as normal.

If one of these spells isn’t on the Divine spell list, it still counts as a Divine spell for you. You can’t replace oath spells when you gain a level of paladin.

Channel Divinity

Each paladin subclass gives you one or more ways to channel divine energy into magical effects, and each subclass explains how they work.

When you use your Channel Divinity feature, choose which effect you want. Some of these effects require a save, and in those cases, the DC is equal to your spell save DC.

Beginning at 13th level, you can use your Channel Divinity feature twice between rests, then three times at 18th level. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain any expended uses.

Improvement

4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th-Level Paladin Feature

Choose one of the following improvements (ability scores can’t be raised above 20 with this feature):

• Increase a single ability score by 2.
• Increase two different ability scores by 1 each.
• Increase one ability score by 1 and select a talent from the martial talents list.

Multiattack

5th-Level Paladin Feature

Your physical prowess has grown. On your turn, you can make two attacks when you take the Attack action.

Aura of Protection

6th-Level Paladin Feature

When you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you makes a save, the creature gains a bonus to the save equal to your CHA modifier (minimum bonus of +1). You must be conscious to grant this bonus. A creature can only receive the benefits of one Aura of Protection feature at a time (that is, auras from multiple paladins don’t stack).

Aura of Courage

9th-Level Paladin Feature

You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can’t be frightened while you are conscious.

Heroic Boon

10th-Level Paladin Feature

Your commitment to the paladin’s path grants you a powerful new ability. Choose one of the following heroic boons:

• Divine Recovery. When you heal a creature with your Lay on Hands feature, the target can expend one of their hit dice, roll the die, and add their CON modifier to it. The target regains that many hit points, in addition to any healing received from Lay on Hands.
• Radiant Strikes. Your every strike is divinely empowered. When you hit a creature with a weapon, the attack deals an extra 1d8 radiant damage. Fiends and Undead instead take 2d8 radiant damage. This extra damage stacks with any damage from your Divine Smite feature.

Cleansing Touch

14th-Level Paladin Feature

You can use your action to end one spell on yourself or on one willing creature you touch.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your CHA modifier (minimum of one). You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Aura Improvements

17th-Level Paladin Feature

The range of your Aura of Protection and Aura of Courage features (and any auras granted by your paladin subclass) increases to 30 feet.

Epic Boon

20th-Level Paladin Feature

Your commitment to the paladin’s path grants you a powerful new ability. You gain the following epic boon:

• Aura of Salvation. As an action, you can exude a calming reassurance for 1 hour. While the aura is active, you and friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have resistance to nonmagical damage and automatically succeed on death saving throws. A creature with at least 1 HP that starts its turn in the aura regains hit points equal to your CHA modifier. This effect ends early if you are incapacitated or die. Once used, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.