Antipaladin
Variant Class: Antipaladin
A
male Human stading staring down a angry
mob of peasants who dare defy him, quickly
striking his sword through the lot of them.
As a creature stands over for a female
drow clad in dark armor, swings his sword in
the name of the light. The drow just laughs
and parry the attack then striking down with
necrotic energy forcing the creature down into
submission.
Despite their origin as a paladin, these antipaladins defy
the sacred light and good, and strive only to grow their
own power base, by aligning with dark gods.
Class Feature Replacements
You gain class features in the Player's Handbook when you
reach certain levels in your class. This section replaces
features that you can gain as a paladin.
Divine Sense
Replaces Divine sense
The presence of strong good registers on your senses
like a noxious odor, and powerful evil rings like heavenly
music in your ears.
As an action, you can open your awareness to detect
such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know the
location of any Good aligned creature, celestial creature,
or humanoid within 60 feet of you that is not behind total
cover.
You know the type (Good aligned creature, celestial, or
humannoid) of any being whose presence you sense, but
not its identity (the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich, for
instance).
Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of
any place or object that has been consecrated or
desecrated, as with the hallow spell.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 +
your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you
regain all expended uses.
Selfish Healing
Replaces Lay on Hands
Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of
healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest.
With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points
equal to your antipaladin level x 5.
As an action, you can draw power from the pool to
restore a number of hit points, up to the maximum
amount remaining in your pool.
Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from your pool
of healing to transfer one disease or one poison affecting
you, to another creature.
2
Smite Good
Replaces Divine Smite
Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a
melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to
deal radiant damage or necrotic damage to the target,
based on the tabel below, plus 1d8 for each spell level
higher than 1st, to a maximum of 6d8 for good aligned
creature, 5d8 for neutral aligned creatures and 4d8 for evil
aligned creatures. Should creature be unaligned, it instead
takes no damage and you're spell(s) slot is/are refunded
d8 alignment
3 Lawful Good
3 Neutral Good
3 Chaotic Good
2 Lawful Neutral
2 True Neutral
2 Chaotic Neutral
1 Lawful Evil
1 Neutral Evil
1 Chaotic Evil
Aura of Menace
Replaces Aura of Protection
Starting at 6th level, whenever a creature you deem
unworthy of you enters withing 10 feet of you, you gain
advatage on intimitation and Insight checks towards that
creature.
Should that creature be of an evil alignment, this feature
does not work on it. At 18th level, the range of this aura
increases to 30 feet.
Aura of Dread
Replaces Aura of Courage
Starting at 10th level, whenever a Hostile creature enters
within 10 feet of you, the creature must make a charisma
saving throw equal to you're spell save DC, on a failed save
the creature can not make oppertunity attacks against
you, and it has a -2 to it's hit rolls against you and
creatures you choses.
You must be conscious to grant this bonus. At 18th level,
the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.
Touch of Might
Replaces Cleansing Touch
Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to give a
creature an addionally weapon dice on one of it's next
attacks , should the damage not use dice, it instead adds
you're charisma modifier, this effect last until used or 5
minutes have passed
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Sacred Oaths
A big part of a paladins, identity is there sacred
oaths but they are very good aligned and therefore
is not really good for evil character unless you pick
oath of conquest. The big problem is their tenents
which is really important for roleplay pourpose. So
here is my recomondations. Just change the
tenenets that is a problem to something more
aligned to you're deity example

Tenets of Devotion Though the exact words and

strictures of the Oath of Devotion vary, paladins of
this oath with Cyric, God of Lies as there deity share
these tenets.

Devius. Lie and cheat. Never Let you're word be a

promise

Courage. Never fear to lie, though caution is

wise.

Compassion with Reward. Aid others though

only if it helps you, protect the weak but only if
there something in it. Show mercy to your foes if
they can pay, and be greedy if possible.

Honorless. Treat others as a opportunity, and

use that opportunity.

Duty. Deny responsible for your actions and their

consequences, protect those assests to your care.

Though that may not be enough, some oaths

have spells and channel divinity features that just
do not fit with the antipaladin, feature like Turn the
Unholy is really not a antipaladin thing to do so
consider changing that to turning good or neutral
aligned creatures instead, or something else if you
like. Look this section is more or less based on the
deity you chose, so speak with you're DM on what
feature and spells to change if i does not fit.
 Style and
Inspiration
This homebrew got created in this way since i
though that my original attemp at this topic
was way to similar to the paladin to justice fie
as a class of it own, so i looked at the Tasha
Cauldren of Everything and saw how they did
Optional Feature and it was exatly how i
wanted to make the antipaladin just replace
optinal with required.

The Primary inspiration for this little project is

the fact that playing a evil paladin is very hard
roleplay wise and did not make sense
mechanic wise unless you play Oath of
Conquest. Plus it made me abel to try to make
a more flavor full version of a paladin with the
restrictions i made.

Cover Art: Dragon

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