#Divine smite

[malsorie]

i’ve literally been posting this sketch everywhere bc i’m so proud of it help

[sabrerine911]

"Undead Hunters smacking a mummy lord and some class misconceptions" COLORED (BG3)Featuring my non-tavs, The Unholy Trinity(Galmar, Beth and Cerise), and Gale, Minsc(with Boo) and the Mummy Lord.Decided to try a little respec on my 2 melee characters Beth and Galmar and put some Pali levels on em, since in lore they would have something similar to a divine smite and other holy spells. As Cerise mentions in the comic the Trinity has that ability trough their deep knowledge of holy runic magic from their setting combined with the holy traces of their twisted blood.On a side note Minsc and Boo know the Trinity since the days of BG1 and 2 and Galmar being a Barbarian and Beth being a Berserker is a reference to that.

[catholic-paladin]

[hi-its-casper]

Fjord’s Divine Smite for @artists-guild-of-exandria #SpellsnStuff project! 💚

[iced-depresso-macchiato]

So I fundamentally disagree with Smiting people just as a matter of principle. I’ve got an annoying sense of morality and justice.

BUT

if I were to smite someone

Or encourage others to smite someone

I think we should all fucking Smite Theseus.

What a bitch.

I hate him.

He should be smited.

[omegamagus]

15. Paladin Sword inspired by Royal Knight Yulia cuz it was her birthday yesterday!

[dunezday]

Did a quick piece of one of my player’s DnD characters!

[izzyfizzyxx08]

Sorry I’ve been dead y’all💀

Anyways here’s some shitpost doodles of my edgy Paladin from my 3rd BG3 run 🫡

[drpcreates]

Been thinking about my dnd character a lot lately. I've been in a few campaigns and love playing as paladin but this is the first time I've used spells. Let me tell you divine smite is gonna be my buddy. I wanted to play around with how divine smite might look like for Zita since she's a follower of Pan and has taken an Oath of the Ancients.

I'm going to try and have some art of my other party members in the future (possibly near) but gotta figure out what.

[gfitzwillsebastianz3rd]

Can I offer you a Divine Smite in this trying time?

I’m fine

[cagemasterfantasy]

Dnd Spells: Divine Smite

Divine Smite is a level 1 Evocation spell unique to Paladin. Casting Time is a Bonus Action which you take immediately after hitting a target with a Melee weapon or an Unarmed Strike Range is Self Requires a Verbal Component Duration is Instantaneous.

The target takes an extra 2d8 Radiant damage from the attack. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is a Fiend or an Undead.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot: The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 1.

[sabrerine911]

"Undead Hunters smacking a mummy lord and some class misconceptions" WIP (BG3)

Featuring my non-tavs, The Unholy Trinity(Galmar, Beth and Cerise), and Gale, Minsc and the Mummy Lord.

Been finishing off ACT 3 on my modded console Unholy Trinity plus companion army run and decided to try a little respec on my 2 melee characters Beth and Galmar and put some Pali levels on em, since in lore they would have something similar to a divine smite and other holy spells. As Cerise mentions in the comic the Trinity has that ability trough their deep knowledge of holy runic magic from their setting combined with the holy traces of their twisted blood.

On a side note Minsc and Boo know the Trinity since the days of BG1 and 2 and Galmar being a Barbarian and Beth being a Berserker is a reference to that.

Sorry for the small lettering, I did not calculate the space on this one.

[catholic-paladin]

"ah, yes I see, what a compelling argument you ha-

DIVINE SMITE!!!" ✨🗡✨

[burr-ell]

Sometimes Things That Shake Up the Status Quo are Worse

I keep seeing people insisting that Exandria "can't return to the status quo, which was bad", but rarely do they say anything in support of that argument beyond "the Primes pick and choose favorites!". And while I'm not confident the show itself won't try to make that claim, the reality is that it just isn't borne out mechanically or narratively. Laying aside that non-Divine Soul sorcerers exist (like, and I'm just spitballing here, Aberrant Mind Ruidusborn), the gods work primarily through the on-the-ground efforts of clerics and paladins—people who have actively and consistently put in the work to devote themselves to the divine. This is a setting where resurrection magic, which relies on divine power, has been intentionally made more difficult than it is in DnD rules-as-written. Even clerics only get access to Divine Intervention at level 10 (when they've already spent a long time devoting themselves to their deity) and up until level 20 the chances of it actually working are vanishingly small—and level 20 clerics are both hard to come by and ultimately still limited.

In the rare event that the Prime Deities choose to bless someone who isn't a cleric or paladin, it's someone who has a good reason to have gotten their attention. Vax offered his life during a divine ritual in the burial site of the Raven Queen's most devoted champion and then actively committed himself to her cause. Yasha was an aasimar being mind-controlled by a devil who wound up at a divine altar and chose to worship Kord after he freed her. Orym is the devoted widower of someone who is in Melora's realm and was present at a ritual in a temple associated with Melora, and one of his companions prayed at a shrine to Melora on his behalf. Vex was directly in front of Pelor, had taken a leadership position in one of his sacred cities, and had received a vision from him directly—and even then, she had to earn it. Scanlan also had to earn the right to Ioun's favor and complete a trial, and had previously shown qualities and values that she believed were fitting of her champion. Fjord was a companion of a devoted cleric of Melora who had sought her help in keeping Uk'otoa sealed and made requests of her on Fjord's behalf, and Fjord also chose to meditate and then became a paladin devoted to her.

And in Exandria, if you don't want to follow a god, you don't have to. Percy, Keyleth, Grog, Beau, Veth, Caleb, Essek, most of Bell's Hells, the average commoner in the various cities the parties have traveled to—whether they outright dislike the gods as a whole or just don't have an interest either way, they're all capable of thriving with or without them, and indeed their problems are almost entirely caused by mortals. It's especially egregious when you consider that cities like Avalir were around during the Age of Arcanum, when the Prime Deities physically walked Exandria, and people like Laerryn, Patia, Zerxus, and Lacrytia Hollow—openly disdainful of the gods or even trying to create feats of magic to get on their level—were continuing business as usual. The previous god of death not only willingly abdicated in favor of a mortal during this time, but outright helped her do the job!

The Prime Deities can't win. If they didn't give anyone any power at all, they'd be viewed as selfish. If they'd stayed on Exandria after the Calamity, they'd be foolish and reckless. They're simply not capable of intervening and helping everyone, so they're labeled capricious. If they leave Exandria, they're abandoning not only their refuge and home, but also the people who need and rely on them. You can argue that "no one should have that much power" all you want, but I think it's exceptionally silly to take an argument meant to criticize the wealthy and powerful of our world (whose only unique quality is ultimately that they got lucky) and apply it to fictional deities (beings who are powerful by their very nature) who, while flawed, also think they're too powerful. They tried to protect Exandria from themselves and the Betrayers while still using their power to do right by the people there, and for the most part it was working just fine.

The "status quo" from before all this was and still is the best compromise available. No one has managed to sell a better one that doesn't amount to "cater to my blorbos and my self-indulgent idea of revolutionary politics, which may or may not also ultimately circle back to my blorbos". I think that's pretty telling.

[playerkingsley]

do no harm? never heard of her

(in honor of tonight's upcoming violence)

[razrogue]