so in character creation with pc atm and had one player chose paladin and another came and wanted that we do need a cleric so want to offer an alternative so i wanted to know within a story what would be the difference between the two since they seem really similar (obvs spells and such)
A paladin is a cosmic activist. Sometimes that means healing the sick and feeding the hugry, other times they're literally fighting fiends.
A cleric furthers the goals of their god on the Material Plane. A cleric that serves a good-aligned war god would want to prevent inhumane war practices and act as a tactician during times of conflict, and oversee military training during times of peace. A cleric for an evil war god likely seeks to subjugate of others through war.
The only common ground between them is that they're both trained fighters.
pally is like a captain of the team, cleric is like the coach. both influence others and win the game but take different approaches, the pally leads by example the cleric influences by study, technique and mentorship.
so in character creation with pc atm and had one player chose paladin and another came and wanted that we do need a cleric so want to offer an alternative so i wanted to know within a story what would be the difference between the two since they seem really similar (obvs spells and such)
War domain cleric gets their power from a god, paladin gets their power from the strength of their convictions.
A paladin is a cosmic activist. Sometimes that means healing the sick and feeding the hugry, other times they're literally fighting fiends.
A cleric furthers the goals of their god on the Material Plane. A cleric that serves a good-aligned war god would want to prevent inhumane war practices and act as a tactician during times of conflict, and oversee military training during times of peace. A cleric for an evil war god likely seeks to subjugate of others through war.
The only common ground between them is that they're both trained fighters.
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pally is like a captain of the team, cleric is like the coach. both influence others and win the game but take different approaches, the pally leads by example the cleric influences by study, technique and mentorship.
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That helps alot thanks everyone