While I'm stuck in quarantine without my laptop, I've started theory crafting... A lot. Rn I'm working on a paladin who discovers a huge sect or whatever of the church that is completely (or so he believes) corrupt. Though I want him to be decieved into believing such. To gain additional power so he can... purge the heretics... he forms a pact with a cursed weapon, and becomes a warlock. But what oath should the paladin part be? I don't know what would work.
Cursed weapon should not be Celestial. A Paladin should not willingly make a deal with a Fiend to purge heretics (unless you really want him to be an idiot).
Hexblade makes the most sense if you do NOT want the paladin to be tempted to abandon his faith. That is basically a straightforward, honest relationship.
If you want him to be tempted (and he is not an idiot), then that leaves The Archfey or The Great Old One. Both are reasonable choices. The Great Old One is closer to a Fiend and is most likely to tempt a non-idiot paladin. The Archfey is closer to a Celestial and more likely to create a working balance with just a hint of temptation lurking around the edges.
Again he's being decieved. I want him to be decieved by a voice he believes id his deity, but it's really some malicious force connected to the cursed weapon, or the weapon itself. Since paladins get their power from oath, not deity, if he believes the voice, he believes it to follow his oath to do all this. Also the original reason for me making this is just for the fun in combat hexadin gives. I just wanted to make a good character story to give a better pitch of the concept.
Since your paladin is being deceived into a pact with a Hexblade, they could be any Oath for story purposes? Are you asking which Oath mechanically fits best with the Hexblade patron? Probably the Oath of Vengeance. The two subclasses are good for single target damage and combine decently well. Hunter's Mark, Vow of Enmity, and Hexblade's Curse on the high value target and you'll put them down pretty well.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
While I'm stuck in quarantine without my laptop, I've started theory crafting... A lot. Rn I'm working on a paladin who discovers a huge sect or whatever of the church that is completely (or so he believes) corrupt. Though I want him to be decieved into believing such. To gain additional power so he can... purge the heretics... he forms a pact with a cursed weapon, and becomes a warlock. But what oath should the paladin part be? I don't know what would work.
Cursed weapon should not be Celestial. A Paladin should not willingly make a deal with a Fiend to purge heretics (unless you really want him to be an idiot).
Hexblade makes the most sense if you do NOT want the paladin to be tempted to abandon his faith. That is basically a straightforward, honest relationship.
If you want him to be tempted (and he is not an idiot), then that leaves The Archfey or The Great Old One. Both are reasonable choices. The Great Old One is closer to a Fiend and is most likely to tempt a non-idiot paladin. The Archfey is closer to a Celestial and more likely to create a working balance with just a hint of temptation lurking around the edges.
Purge heretics?
I would think Vengeance
Again he's being decieved. I want him to be decieved by a voice he believes id his deity, but it's really some malicious force connected to the cursed weapon, or the weapon itself. Since paladins get their power from oath, not deity, if he believes the voice, he believes it to follow his oath to do all this. Also the original reason for me making this is just for the fun in combat hexadin gives. I just wanted to make a good character story to give a better pitch of the concept.
Since your paladin is being deceived into a pact with a Hexblade, they could be any Oath for story purposes? Are you asking which Oath mechanically fits best with the Hexblade patron? Probably the Oath of Vengeance. The two subclasses are good for single target damage and combine decently well. Hunter's Mark, Vow of Enmity, and Hexblade's Curse on the high value target and you'll put them down pretty well.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Yep. Mainly asking about mechanically best. Ty.