Blessed Warrior 5e
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the cleric spell list. They count as paladin spells for you, and Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from the cleric spell list.
Blessed Warrior 5e: Fighting Style Review
Review by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
One defining difference between the full casters and the half-casters in the low tiers are cantrips. Clerics are deeply magical, wielding a suite of powerful tools to bring aid to their allies, light the world around them, and feel like a divinely gifted person. Paladins, meanwhile, are less magical- you’re focused around on being a robust, damage dealing machine with some light healing. If you want to muddle the waters even more, Blessed Warrior is a decent potential option to expand your paladin with a little bit better out of combat utility. Blessed Warrior is less of a Fighting Style, and more a feature replacement, an optional variant that replaces the Fighting Style by giving you a different kind of option to enable a higher utility based character.
The cantrip options cleric get aren’t amazing outside of Guidance. Still, Guidance plus a exploration or magical enhancement tool like Mending or Thaumaturgy can be worth it if you don’t have a lot of other full-casters in the group and are itching for some more magical tools to engage the world with. These probably aren’t better than something like Great Weapon Fighting or Interception at tables with a bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, wizard, or warlock in the party, as the whole table benefits from their cantrip access and double dipping isn’t particularly useful. If you’re partying with a ranger, monk, and barbarian, though, Blessed Warrior can be one of few ways to get magic access for all. That’s pretty good.
Most paladins aren’t going to want Blessed Warrior. If you want to smite the crap out of some monstrous undead or abhorrent abominations, most of the other styles will push you closer to that fantasy. If you want to play a defensive bulwark, a paragon of goodness dedicated to protecting their allies, Protection and Interception both are exceptional options for delivering on that fantasy. If combat isn’t really your thing, and you want more magic, but not as much magic as you could get just by playing a cleric, you can take Blessed Warrior. I have a hunch that if that’s the case, you’ll have a better time just playing a cleric, though, as the two classes are quite similar anyway, especially in the low tiers.
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