Comments on: D&D Bling: Paladins

By: Honeypaw

Honeypaw — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:21:58 +0000

Sure, paladins have the shiny armor. This helps with morale; no doubt you’ve heard the expression “knight in shining armor,” this is the embodiment of that. Also, if their armor is ugly enough, it could incur a charisma penalty, and charisma is an important stat for paladins.

Yes, paladins have big medallions. Technically, it’s a “holy symbol.” You want something you can easily grab during an emergency. What are you going to grab to repel that vampire: the tasteful itty-bitty necklace holy symbol; or the big, sturdy, hand-friendly one off the wall? If it’s heavy and solid enough to use for an improvised bludgeon, all the better.

Doesn’t a paladin’s mount come from the celestial plane or something? I never use mine. I will concede this point.

Yes, paladins have big swords. Big swords cause big d8 or d12 damage. Would you rather the paladin switched to a goes-with-my-outfit dagger that only does d4 damage?

Yes, sometimes the swords glow. I’ll never forget the time I decided to enforce lighting rules in my game:
Me: Suddenly, the room is plunged into darkness! What do you use for lighting?
Player: I’m wielding this big glowing sword, remember?
Me: Oh, right.
The glowing sword is the “Doom 3 duct tape patch” of D&D.

Yes, paladins are attention junkies. “Hey, monster! I’ve got d10 hit dice! Focus all your attention at me! Not the d4-hit-dice gnome in the back who’s preparing Lightning and Fireball spells!”

By: Greedy Paul

Greedy Paul — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:38:55 +0000

@jester, a good tactic to use the stupidly blinged out pally to your parties advantage, convince him that theres more bling ahead and use him as bait. his impending doom is the rest of the parties gain. if he makes it out……… well, you can always say “oops”. usually he wont(as long as the dm has done his job right). i try to hang back and watch the goblin hordes take him, then as theyre celebrating their victory over the stupid pally that just ran valliantly to his death, the rest of the party slaughhters them. they never see it coming. and as of yet, the kid that incists on making strictly pallys hasnt caught on. power to the rangers.

By: Hagalahak

Hagalahak — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:11:46 +0000

yes im newb to the game im on my third story.
the first two i was a barbarian and then a fighter.
now im starting a pally and im finding him to be
more then just a “meat head” like my first two
characters were, and after researching and
building my character it’s funny to have read the
article. well because my pally has his fare share of bling,
and enough flare to take jennifer aniston’s job… that was in reference to the movie along came polly,staring ben stiller and jennifer aniston…

keep the articles coming.

By: Jester

Jester — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:22:45 +0000

stupid pallys and their shiny swords and armor id knock them out just so an enemy wouldnt notices us trying to sneak up on them. can u imagine “i see the shinying pally” id say u son of a! ur gonna get us killed!

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