Conclusion – Our Take on the Vengeance Oath Paladin Your level 20 abilities aren’t great… But, most campaigns don’t care about level 20 anyways. This is a fantastic subclass with a lot of aggressive utility. We highly recommend this for any team that needs a boss destroyer.
Why is oath of Vengeance good?
Benefits of the Oath of Vengeance The Oath of Vengeance encourages paladins to play less defensively by giving them tools that allow them to apply constant offensive pressure to their enemies. One of the most significant benefits of your paladin oath are your Oath Spells.
How do I get oath of vengeance?
The core principles of the tenets are brutally simple.
- Fight the Greater Evil. Faced with a choice of fighting my sworn foes or combating a lesser evil, I choose the greater evil.
- No Mercy for the Wicked. Ordinary foes might win my mercy, but my sworn enemies do not.
- By Any Means Necessary.
- Restitution.
When do Paladins swear the oath of vengeance?
When evil forces slaughter helpless villagers, when an entire people turns against the will of the gods, when a thieves’ guild grows too violent and powerful, when a dragon rampages through the countryside – at times like these, paladins arise and swear an Oath of Vengeance to set right that which has gone wrong.
What is the purpose of the oath of vengeance?
Oath of Vengeance. It often falls upon a paladin to bring justice in the form of vengeance upon heinous transgressors against law and good. These oathbound paladins are always on the hunt for those who have perpetrated evil, and are the instrument of Heaven’s most definitive and implacable judgment.
What happens when oathbound Paladin reaches 4th level?
When an oathbound paladin reach 4th level, she can spend two uses of her lay on hands ability to gain an extra use of smite evil that day. This ability has no effect for a paladin who does not have the smite evil ability. This ability replaces channel positive energy.
What are the penalties for breaking a Paladin’s oath?
The paladin’s description says that his source of power is his oath. The description of the oath implies a deity, but does not require one. The importance of a deity and level of involvement is entirely up to GM discretion. By RAW, the penalties for willfully breaking an oath include forcing the paladin to take a different class.
