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What is Bardic Inspiration:

In D&D 5e, all bards start with Bardic Inspiration, which is a potent skill.

Every bard can use a bonus action to grant a Bardic Inspiration dice to another creature, or most commonly another character in the party, with Bardic Inspiration. A player who has a bardic inspiration die can use it to add the result to an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw by rolling it (basically any D20 roll).

 

If at all feasible, give the opposing player an actual die to keep so they don’t forget about the inspiration. The die size starts at a d6 and grows as the bard progresses through the levels.

 

Although it may not appear to be particularly powerful at first, it is a skill that remains relevant and valuable to a bard as they progress through a campaign.

 

This can be quite useful, as it can aid a player in making a crucial saving throw, landing a critical hit, or passing a major skill check.

 

Bardic Inspiration Details: 

Players can decide whether or not to utilize bardic inspiration after their d20 roll, but before the results are disclosed. This is fantastic since it eliminates the need to waste bardic creativity on rolls that are either a clear success or failure.

 

Giving out these inspiration dice has almost little cost for the bard, especially at low levels.

 

It takes a bonus action, but at low levels, most bards have nothing else to do with their bonus action. This means that a bard can still attack, cast a spell, or do something else with their action.

 

Bardic inspiration improves as the bard progresses through the levels.

 

More inspiration dice are gained as the bard’s charisma improves. Their bardic inspiration dice recover on a short rest rather than a long rest at level 5.

 

The dice size increases at levels 5, 10, and 15, going to a d8, d10, and finally a d12.

 

At level 20, bards gain an inspiration ability, though it’s rubbish and not worth mentioning.

 

If you employ Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything’s Optional Class Features, a creature with an inspiration die can use it instead to add damage to a spell attack or healing to a healing spell.

 

This isn’t really noteworthy, but it’s better than nothing because it allows casters a new way to use inspiration. Especially if they intend to perform a spell that doesn’t require an attack roll, such as a healing or offensive spell.

 

Even better, all bard subclasses acquire more ways to use their Bardic Inspiration starting at level 3.

 

These uses can add or subtract from certain d20 rolls, implement special battle moves, or provide new bonuses and abilities to the targets of your inspiration. Many of them are incredibly entertaining and compelling.

 

For the various sub classes, details on some of the alternatives for bardic inspiration are provided below.

 

Bardic College: Lore

(3) You have the ability to reduce a target’s attack, damage, or ability check.

(14) You can boost your own ability check with bardic inspiration.

 

Notes:

(3) This is a fantastic ability!

(14) This is also acceptable.

 

College of Valor

(3) A PC can employ BI to increase its AC or do more damage.

Notes:

(3) This is excellent. Adding to the air conditioning system could save someone’s neck at times. Additional harm is acceptable, although it is not always the greatest usage.

 

College of Creation 

(3) When a PC uses BI, it receives minimal benefits.

(6) On the same round that you provide BI, you can command your animated artifact.

 

Notes:

(3) It’s fine.

(6) Excellent. This makes it a lot easier to give away inspiration without having to give up an extra action.

 

College of Eloquence 

(3) Deduct the saving throw of a target.

(6) If a PC uses the die but fails the roll, they keep it.

(14) If a PC uses BI, you can spend a reaction to give BI to another creature (# uses = your Cha modifier per long rest).

 

Notes:

(3) As a complete spellcaster, you want your spells to be as effective as possible. This contributes to that. This is fantastic, and it contributes to the College of Eloquence bard being the greatest bard subclass.

(6) Extends the life of your BI. Excellent.

(14) Everyone benefits from more BI. Excellent.

 

College of Glamour

(3) provide others temporary HP and allow them to move around without being attacked.

 

Notes:

(3) Excellent, especially for a group with a lot of martial characters that might need to reposition in the middle of a battle.

 

College of Swords

(3) When attacking, use special moves (“blade flourish”).

(14) Blade flourish with a d6 every turn without using inspiration.

 

Notes:

(3) If you like melee, which you probably do if you’re in the College of Swords, it’s very good. It’s worth noting that these manoeuvres also work with ranged weapon attacks.

(14) If you enjoy melee combat, this is a great game to play. By Level 14, however, you’ll almost certainly have better (spellcasting) options than a melee strike.

 

College of Whispers

(3) As a rogue, deal psychic sneak attack damage.

 

Notes:

(3) All right. The best part is that you can perform this with any weapon strike, even ranged ones. If you employ psychic swords too often, however, you’ll rapidly run out of ideas.

 

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Great accomplishments can change the game and define a person’s character.

Feats should always enhance your campaign and should extend your character’s choices.

If you forget you had a feat, it was probably not that good in the first place. But what should you choose for your next project?

I tried my hardest to select the best feats from the core D&D 5e source volumes, the Player’s Handbook and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, for this list.

*Note: I left off the feats from Unearthed Arcana and Eberron – Rising from the Last War on purpose. The majority of those accomplishments are not only mediocre, but they are also not Adventurer’s League legal.

Best Feasts in D&D 5E Ranked List: 

1. Lucky

Source: Player’s Handbook

The best feat in 5th edition is without a doubt Lucky.

This incredible feat offers 3 luck points, which can be used to roll an additional d20 on an ability check, attack, or saving throw.

After that, you can choose which dice to use to determine the outcome.

Lucky can get you out of trouble, even if you have to utilise it before you know if you succeeded or failed.

Any d20 roll you make can be rerolled up to three times, so it doesn’t have to be a 1.

You can also use one luck point to roll a d20 if you’re in a tight spot and are assaulted. Then you must decide whether to utilise your own roll or the enemy’s. If both you and your opponent use Lucky to influence the outcome of a dice roll, the effect cancels out and no one rolls the extra d20.

At any point during the campaign, all characters should seriously consider attempting Lucky.

It’s essentially gaining a competitive advantage on demand.

2. Sentinel

Source: Player’s Handbook

If you’re playing a tank, you’ll want to buckle up because Sentinel is one of the most powerful feats you can obtain.

When someone is hit by one of your opportunity attacks, their speed is reduced to 0. If that weren’t enough, foes are unable to disengage in order to prevent opportunity attacks. As a result, if you hit the target, it will not flee.

Finally, if a monster hits an ally who is within 5 feet of you, you can attack them with a reaction.

Sentinel is the best way to keep enemies away from your party members.

When this feat is combined with Polearm Master, everything within 10 feet of you will be unable to ignore you.

Despite the fact that you only get one reaction per turn, Polearm Master and Sentinel both provide you with so many criteria to trigger one that you can easily manage the pace of a battle.

When you have a melee weapon with reach, this will be your go-to move. Because of Sentinel and Polearm Master’s opportunity attacks, you can stop an opponent 10 feet away from attacking.

Then, on your turn, you can strike them while moving back 5 steps.

This combination can readily be abused unless your target also has a lengthy reach.

And it is for this reason that this feat is so impressive. Sentinel is a powerful achievement on its own, even without Polearm Master. I would have put Sentinel first if it weren’t for the next feat on my list.

3. Polearm Master

Source: Player’s Handbook

Polearm Master is the melee counterpart to Crossbow Expert.

When you use a weapon with reach, you can use a bonus action to deliver 1d4 damage with the butt-end of your weapon. This 1d4 damage is applied with the same ability score as your primary attack’s damage roll.

Glaives, halberds, spears (which are quite thrilling), and quarterstaffs are all affected by this accomplishment.

Because the halberd and glaive are both large polearms, Polearm Master works well with Greater Weapon Master. This is the foundation for a fantastic melee damage dealer.

With your bonus action, you’ll be able to get more attacks, and foes approaching you will be hit.

More attacks benefit Barbarian’s Rage, Paladin’s Smite, and Battle Master’s Maneuvers.

Polearm Master will quickly supercharge your build if you want to play a character who uses a Polearm.

 

4. Bountiful Luck

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Bountiful Luck is so wonderful that if no one else wants to play a Halfling, I’m constantly tempted to do so.

Bountiful Luck is a game for players who realise that slaying the evil villain and traversing dungeons entails more than just swinging a large axe around.

As a response, if your allies within 30 feet roll a 1, you can reroll for them.

It’s incredibly broken because it may be used every round and works for attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. You’ll be amazed at how frequently 1s appear, and Bountiful Luck shields your group from those unfortunate rolls.

 

5. Resilient

Source: Player’s Handbook

The only reason War Caster isn’t higher on this list is due of Resilient.

Resilient offers you a one-point boost to any ability score you choose, as well as proficiency in the saving throws connected with that ability.

This feat is now a quick and easy technique to even out strange ability scores during character creation.

Resilient allows you to gain proficiency with two of the three most frequent 5e saving throws: Constitution, Dexterity, and Wisdom.

At least one of those three is already mastered in your class. As a result, Resilient should allow you to take another.
Wisdom and Dexterity are normally terrible for heavily armoured fighters, but Resilience could help you cover at least one of those deficits where your AC won’t save you.

This is why, if I had to pick between Resilience and War Caster, I’d go with Resilience. Because it will aid concentration tests.

 

6. Great Weapon Master

Source: Player’s Handbook

Now, in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, this accomplishment is one of the most character-defining and well-loved feats.

If you use a heavy weapon, you might choose to take a -5 penalty to your attack roll in exchange for a substantial +10 damage bonus.

You can use a bonus action to do an extra melee attack if you land a critical hit or bring a target to 0 health points.

Because of the advantage on attack rolls, it’s ridiculous when a Barbarian takes Greater Weapon Master, rages, and Reckless Attacks.

Not only will Reckless Attack overcome the -5 penalty, but each attack will be rolled twice on two d20s. Increasing the chance of a critical strike and triggering the Great Weapon Master’s extra attack.

You could design a Barbarian with as much Strength and Constitution as possible and only gain Great Weapon Master, and you’d still have one of the most dangerous builds available.

To get the most out of this fantastic accomplishment, utilise Bless or find ways to gain an edge on your attack dice.

7. Crossbow Expert

Source: Player’s Handbook

If you intend to use a crossbow, you must first take Crossbow Expert.

It allows you to ignore the loading property of a crossbow, and you no longer have a ranged attack disadvantage.

This feat is top-tier because you can attack with a hand crossbow as a bonus action if you attack with a one-handed weapon as your attack action.

This characteristic also applies when attacking with a hand crossbow because it is a one-handed weapon.

You can now use your hand crossbow to make two attacks at the cost of one feat.

At low levels, where you would ordinarily be doing single attacks, Crossbow Expert is outstanding. And, although using fewer damage dice than a heavy crossbow, this makes hand crossbows incredibly viable.

8. Sharp Shooter

Source: Player’s Handbook

The Sharp Shooter feat improves your character’s archery skills.

When you attack with a ranged weapon, you take a -5 penalty to attack rolls in exchange for a tremendous +10 damage bonus.

Sharp Shooter compensates for this -5 penalty.

Sharp Shooter allows you to ignore half and three-quarter cover, which would ordinarily provide additional AC to your target. Another advantage is that you are no longer at a disadvantage when using a ranged weapon’s longer range option.

Fighters and Rangers also have a way to counteract Sharp Shooter’s -5 disadvantage, thanks to the Archery Fighting Style’s +2 attack roll boost.

For low- to mid-level characters, this achievement nearly feels like cheating, yet it works well in higher levels.

9. Healer

Source: Player’s Handbook

Healer is one of the most versatile and cost-effective feats in the game.

When your allies are making death saves, you can utilise a healer’s kit as an action to stabilise them.

This is extraordinary in and of itself.

A Healer’s Kit can also be used to heal a target once for 1d6 + 4 + the target’s level.

That’s incredible for something that costs only 5 gold and has ten uses.

Furthermore, you can only utilise this feat again after a short rest.

10. Alert

Source: Player’s Handbook

Alert is easily on the top of my list.

When you have Alert, you earn a +5 to your initiative, won’t be surprised when you’re awake, and won’t be at a disadvantage on attack rolls against you if you’re assaulted by an unseen opponent.

Because Strength-based characters typically have low Dexterity scores, the additional initiative is extremely effective.

Going first in an encounter, repositioning, and dishing out the initial few hits makes encounters easier overall.

Taking Alert is still worthwhile if you’re a Dexterity-based character, a Barbarian who gains an advantage on initiative checks, or a spellcaster. Because it almost always ensures you’ll be the first to eliminate an enemy or gain control of the battlefield.

Alert is a fantastic accomplishment to learn because it combines going first and disregarding shocks.

I can’t tell you how many times Alert has made an ambush for my players seem simple.

11. War Caster

Source: Player’s Handbook

On spellcasters, War Caster is incredible.

The major purpose to learn War Caster is to gain an edge on Constitution throws when you’re taking damage and want to keep your spell focused.

When an enemy’s movement prompts an attack of opportunity from you, War Caster allows you to cast a spell.

Because you prefer to retain your distance as a spellcaster, this benefit isn’t as significant. If they get close enough, most foes will not move away from a spellcaster.

The final advantage of War Caster is that you can perform the Somatic component of your spell while wielding weapons or shields. If you’re a battle Bard or an Arcane Trickster, this will come in handy.

War Caster isn’t at the top of my list because there’s another feat that would be better for concentration checks. However, War Caster is an excellent feat that is well worth doing. But if you’re looking for something a little more, stay reading!

12. Magic Initiate

Source: Player’s Handbook

You can pick from Sorcerer, Wizard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, or Bard if you choose the Magic Initiate feat. After that, you learn two Cantrips and a 1st-level spell from the spell list of the chosen class.

Magic Initiate is frequently picked due to its enormous adaptability.

Choosing Magic Initiate could give you an advantage in combat or allow you to employ utility spells that you wouldn’t have otherwise.

You can also use Cantrips that scale with your level as a Magic Initiate. Eldritch Blast or Fire Bolt are two examples.

For extra usefulness, you can gain a 1st level spell like Find Familiar, or for more damage, you can gain Hex. The extraordinary versatility of Magic Initiate is generally worth it.

Keep in mind that whatever spell list you choose, your spells will be based on the casting ability score of that class.

13. Mobile

Source: Player’s Handbook

Your speed rises by 10 feet when you’re on your phone.

You no longer require an extra turn to deal with challenging terrain while dashing if you take this achievement. And whether or not you successfully land a melee attack on your target, you no longer provoke attacks of opportunity from them.

This is a straightforward task. However, if you want to get into and out of combat quickly, this is the way to go.

Because most encounters are usually built in contained places, I’m not rating Mobile higher on this list.

In an interaction, there are also more crucial things to consider than simply placing yourself. Mobile, on the other hand, is a solid achievement if you can master it.

 

14. Heavy Armor Master

Source: Player’s Handbook

You master thick armour to the point where you can deflect attacks.

Heavy Armor Master boosts your Strength by 1, but it also gives you a tremendous bonus.

When wearing heavy armour, all non-magical weapon damage is reduced by three. This may not appear to be much. However, combining Heavy Armor Master and a Battle Master’s Parry can reduce incoming damage by at least 11 points, if not more.

15. Second Chance

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Halflings have the racial feat Second Chance, which can be used when a creature hits them.

As a reaction, you can force them to reroll that attack roll when this activates. This ability is only available once every initiative roll or after a short or long rest.

Second Chance is what I call a “lucky junior” and an easy addition to our list.

16. Mage Slayer

Source: Player’s Handbook

If you wish to play the melee anti-mage archetype, Mage Slayer is an excellent choice.

As a reaction to a nearby creature casting a spell, you may make a melee attack on them.

When you harm a creature, you also put them at a disadvantage when it comes to concentration saves.

Additionally, if a creature is adjacent to you, your saving throws now have an advantage versus its spells. Only take this achievement if your games have a lot of spellcasters.

17. Shield Master

Source: Player’s Handbook

Shield Master transforms you into a shoving machine.

Shield Master was said to allow you to charge at your opponents, shove them prone with a bonus action, and then attack them at a disadvantage.

While this would be quite strong, the 2019 Sage Advice Compendium rules that you can only shove them after you’ve used all of your attacks.

This isn’t to say Shield Master isn’t useful. If skillfully coordinated, the ability to shove enemies 5 feet or prone as a bonus action might be effective.

Shield Master’s shove also aids ranged teammates in maintaining their distance from adversaries. Your prone enemy becomes an easy target for your party if employed right before another ally’s turn.

You might also push foes towards the area of effect of a spell.

18. Prodigy

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

This racial ability is available to half-elves, half-orcs, and humans.

Choose one talent, one tool, and one language. From that point on, you’re a pro. Nice!

Then choose a skill in which you are already proficient, and whatever proficiency bonus you get from that skill is now doubled.

Although Prodigy isn’t compatible with Expertise, it’s a must-have for talent junkies.

19. Elven Accuracy

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Elves and Half-elves have access to Elven Accuracy.

When you have advantage on an attack roll involving Dexterity, Wisdom, Charisma, or Intelligence, you can reroll one of those dice rolls.

Instead of the customary two d20 rolls, you’ll get three.

This feat additionally boosts your Dexterity, Wisdom, Charisma, and Intelligence by one point.

Elven Accuracy is all about maximising your advantage, which is why it earned a spot on this list.

20. Squat Nimbleness

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Dwarves and Halflings become even more dexterous.

Squat Nimbleness allows you to gain 5 feet of walking speed, a raise in Strength or Dexterity, Acrobatics or Athletics proficiency, and an advantage while attempting to escape a grapple.

Squat Nimbleness is a simple feat with a lot of minor rewards that, when combined, make it a rather good feat.

 

Conclusion:

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Paladins have access to beneficial divine spells in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

Paladins can prepare a limited number of spells per day that they can cast using their available slots, despite the fact that they are only half-casters (meaning they can only cast up to 5th-level spells at best).

Many of their choices revolve around boosting themselves or their friends, while a handful allow them to deliver significantly more damage in combat—both directly and indirectly.

Paladins’ spell slots, on the other hand, are in direct competition with their hallmark feature, Divine Smite, which trades spell slots for strong bursts of radiant damage. As a result, deciding whether to perform a spell or use it to smite feels like a balancing act to get the most out of a Paladin’s limited resources.

Paladins are superb martial characters in general. And I’ve played quite a few of them with various builds.

In this section, I’ve highlighted options that allow Paladins to provide buffs and some magical help.

NOTE: The spell levels listed below correspond to the lowest spell slot level required to cast the spell. I’ll also limit myself to spells from the Paladin’s base spell list (discounting any possible oath spells).

Best Paladin Spells DnD 5E List: 

1. Find Steed/Find Greater Steed

Source: Player’s Handbook/Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

The discover steed (2nd-level) and find bigger steed (4th-level) spells, along with the aura spell, are two of the Paladin’s most well-known spells.

 

Both spells summon a devoted, intelligent mount that will carry out the Paladin’s commands, from transporting them across the country to charging into battle.

 

The creature you summon might have a variety of appearances, as well as distinct abilities.

 

The second-level variant summons a mount with the strength of a war horse.

 

The 4th-level variation, on the other hand, allows your mount to transform into a more powerful form, like as a griffon or a pegasus.

 

Unless your Paladin dismisses your “steed,” the supernatural mount will remain with you as long as they don’t lose all of their HP, thereby making them a permanent companion on your journeys.

 

Overall, these horses may be incredibly useful in both combat and non-combat situations.

2. Bless

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Your Paladin can give up to three monsters a d4 to add to their attack rolls and saving throws for a 1st-level spell slot.

Only a few other effects provide such direct benefits to those rolls, so bless remains one of the game’s most powerful and resource-efficient buffs.

 

You can also use a higher-level slot to cast bless, which allows you to target an extra creature each spell level above the first.

 

Because blessing requires an action to cast, you can get the most of it by casting it right before a conflict.

 

3. Shield of Faith

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

This fantastic 1st-level spell gives your chosen target a +2 Armor Class boost for up to an hour.

 

Shield of faith is a particularly useful boon for frontline combatants, and Paladins, whose Divine Smite necessitates melee assaults, are frequently among them.

 

Furthermore, shield of faith’s added action casting time lets you to cast it while also wading into the frontline to spend your action attacking in the same turn.

4. Wrathful Smite

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Wrathful Smite allows you to use a 1st-level spell slot to empower your next successful melee weapon attack, causing an additional 1d6 psychic damage and compelling the targeted creature to make a fear check.

 

Whether by accident or design, wrathful smite has a profound, long-lasting effect that can be difficult to erase.

 

A creature must expend an action (a very good cost to impose on an opponent) to attempt to end the spell’s scared condition.

 

The creature must make a Wisdom *check*—not only are Wisdom checks, if not identical to Wisdom saves, usually lower. If you stay in sight of the terrified creature, they will perform the check with a disadvantage, allowing you to keep the condition on your target.

5. Aura of Vitality

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

The 3rd-level spell Aura of Vitality creates a healing aura surrounding your Paladin.

 

You can spend a bonus action each round for the next minute to heal another creature within 30 feet of your character for 2d6 HP.

 

Aura of vitality, now available in a single 3rd-level slot, restores a large amount of HP and is especially useful for healing outside of combat. Definitely worth a look.

 

6. Crusader’s Mantle

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

A 30-foot radius aura is created around your Paladin with this 3rd-level spell.

 

Each nonhostile creature in your aura (including yourself) gives 1d4 extra radiant damage each time you hit with a weapon attack for up to a minute, similar to divine favour.

 

Spreading the offensive bonus to your squad improves this impact, which is especially useful if your party has a few characters who rely on weapon attacks.

 

7. Revivify

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

With a touch, you can resurrect a recently deceased creature with this famous 3rd-level spell.

 

However, there are a few prerequisites:

 

You must have a 300 gp diamond that will be consumed during the casting.

The targeted creature couldn’t have died more than a minute before you cast this spell on it, and its body couldn’t have been missing any important organs (like its head).

Thematically, a single casting of revivify offers your Paladin some control over death, which is an interesting concept.

 

 

8. Divine Favor

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Divine Favor is a very dependable 1st-level spell that allows Paladins to add a d4 of radiant damage to their weapon attack damage rolls.

 

This spell is cast with a bonus action and lasts up to a minute.

 

Divine Favor is a decent and basic offensive bonus to any Paladin early on. It’s even better when your character has the ability to attack many times every turn!

9. Protection from Evil and Good

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Protection against Evil and Good is a powerful 1st-level spell that grants any target a large bonus against the following:

 

• Aberrations
• Celestials
• Elementals
• Fiends
• Fey
• Undead

A target protected by this spell can’t be possessed, charmed, or scared by creatures of those categories for up to 10 minutes.

 

Furthermore, those creatures are at a disadvantage when it comes to attacking the target.

 

Overall, protection from evil and good provides those specific categories of opponents some very powerful advantages.

 

The main disadvantage of this spell is that it requires holy water or powdered silver to cast.

10. Holy Weapon

Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Holy weapon is an excellent choice for Paladins as a 5th-level spell.

 

You can imbue holy energy into your weapon for up to an hour, allowing you to deliver an extra 2d8 radiant damage each time you use it.

 

During this time, the weapon also emits light.

 

You have the option of dismissing the spell early, which will cause a burst that does additional radiant damage and blinds enemies within a 30-foot radius.

 

Because it delivers a considerable boost to your damage each round, you’re more likely to keep this spell up for as long as possible rather than discard it.

11. Death Ward

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

A Paladin who is unkillable is frequently the most fearsome.

 

Death ward is a 4th-level spell that grants a single target an 8-hour non-concentration benefit that helps protect it from death.

 

The spell prevents the subject from falling below 0 hit points and instead reduces them to 1 hit point before finishing.

 

A creature impacted by the spell cannot be killed by effects such as spells or special abilities that cause immediate death while the death ward is active.

 

This perk is most useful at higher levels of play, but it’s still a powerful guarantee of your Paladin’s overall survival.

12. Heroism

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

For 1 minute, this 1st-level concentration spell offers two noticeable buffs.

 

The target, for one, grows impervious to the terrified state.

 

Two, the target gains a temporary amount of HP equal to your Paladin’s Charisma modifier, which refreshes at the beginning of each of the target’s turns.

 

So long as you stay in fight for more than two or three rounds, heroism can supply an amount of temporary HP that is incredibly efficient for the spell slot you expend.

13. Compelled Duel

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Compelled Duel is a fantastic 1st-level spell that targets a single creature within 30 feet of you.

 

For up to a minute after a failed Wisdom saving throw, your target suffers disadvantage when attacking creatures other than you.

 

It also has a hard time getting away from you.

 

Your Paladin can only attack the spell’s target, and neither your allies nor your enemies can hurt your target. Otherwise, the compelled duel’s effects fade away.

 

This spell can be cast with simply a bonus action. As a result, you can focus your action on your target as well.

14. Blinding Smite

Source: Player’s Handbook

 

Paladins have a lot of amazing 3rd-level spells to choose from.

 

Blinding Smite is similar to thundering smite in that it deals an additional 3d8 radiant damage on a hit and, if the creature you attacked fails the Constitution saving throw, it becomes blinded for up to a minute.

 

This spell is a wonderful choice because blindness is a powerful affliction to inflict on an enemy.

15. Banishment

Source: Player’s Handbook

As previously stated, Paladins have few options for incapacitating foes other than delivering damage to them.

 

Banishment, on the other hand, is a powerful 4th-level spell that can banish a creature from play—possibly permanently if it’s an extraplanar monster.

 

Though the spell slot cost can be significant (a 4th-level spell slot for a Paladin maxes out their Divine Smite damage), exile, which requires a Charisma saving throw, can be very effective. Due to the fact that many monsters have lower save bonus values.

 

16. Command

Source: Player’s Handbook

This 1st-level spell lets you to give another creature a single-word command.

If that target fails their Wisdom save, they must do their hardest for a round to follow your orders.

Given that Paladins don’t have many tools for crowd control that may completely negate an enemy’s actions, command provides an early option in this regard.

The explanation of this spell includes some word suggestions, but creative wording with Command can open up even more options.

 

17. Aid

Source: Player’s Handbook

This 2nd-level spell provides extra hit points to up to three creatures (HP).

Aid boosts the current and maximum HP of targets by 5 at the lowest level you may cast it, and casting the spell with higher level slots increases this extra HP by 5.

It’s a simple buff that lasts up to 8 hours and doesn’t take up any of your concentration.

 

18. Destructive Wave

Source: Player’s Handbook

The majority of Paladins’ spells lack intrinsic blasting abilities.

They can finally employ destructive wave once they have access to 5th-level spells (the highest level spells a Paladin can cast).

This has an effect on all creatures within 30 feet of you that you choose. Targeted creatures must make a Constitution saving to avoid being knocked prone as well as taking 5d6 thunder damage and 5d6 radiant or necrotic damage.

Paladins take a long time to reach destructive wave. It does, however, assist them overcome their inability to successfully deal with huge groups of adversaries at the same time.

19. Thunderous Smite

Source: Player’s Handbook

The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack after performing thundering smite, you deal an extra 2d6 thunder damage.

The additional effects of this spell make it worth the 1st-level slot (which could otherwise be used for Divine Smite): you can shove the monster you hit 10 feet away from you and knock them prone.

However, keep in mind that when you cast the magic, it makes a very loud noise. As a result, it’s unsuitable for any situation that necessitates nuance.

 

20. Magic Weapon

Source: Player’s Handbook

Paladins get this 2nd-level spell about the same time they get their Extra Attack ability.

A magical weapon gives a weapon a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls.

Due to the fact that many creatures have resistance to nonmagical weapon damage (meaning they only receive half of the damage), this spell can get beyond those defences.

You’ll want to keep this spell ready until your Paladin has a magical weapon. Just in case you come up against a foe who despises commonplace damage sources.

 

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