Paladin alternate favored class?

[phantom1592]

I've been looking over the favored class bonuses in the APG, and I am very confused about the Human one.

Quote:

Human: Add +1 to the paladin's energy resistance to one kind of energy (maximum +10).

Where/when do Paladins gain energy resistence?? I see a lot of immunities to charm and fear... I see DR kicking in at 17th level.. but I'm not seeing Energy resistance...

does this GIVE you ER? Seeing that word 'ADD +1' makes me think it's attached to some other ability that I'm just not seeing...

Of course it's late... but I've been wondering about that for a while now >.<

[Roberta Yang]

It's worded "add" so that it stacks with racial energy resistance.

Edit: Also, the Empyreal Knight archetype gets energy resistance (and others might too, I haven't checked).

[phantom1592]

Roberta Yang wrote:

It's worded "add" so that it stacks with racial energy resistance.

Edit: Also, the Empyreal Knight archetype gets energy resistance (and others might too, I haven't checked).

Racial???

But you need to be a human to use this Alternate ability... I know sorcerers get energy resistenc... Is this only useful if you multiclass??

[Heaggles]

I think I seen something say that you can use this ability even if you dont have any energy resistance. All though I dont remember where. All races have an energy resistance of 0 so I would say you can get energy resistance with this ability. But that is something that would have to be brought up to your GM, and see what he thinks.

[Darkwolf117]

I would figure it is meant to mean:

If you have energy resistance, add this to it.

If you don't have energy resistance... add this to it anyway, and you now have energy resistance.

That said, as a Paladin's favored class, I understand the line of thinking that it would be related to a Paladin's class feature... Doesn't need to be though.

Incidentally, Gnome Druids get this.

Quote:

Druid: The druid gains energy resistance 1 against acid, cold, electricity, or fire. Each time the druid selects this reward, increase her resistance to one of these energy types by +1 (maximum 10 for any one type).

You could assume the Paladin works the same way and the wording was just not as clear as it should be.

Edit: Of course, I suppose one could also argue that, with them being worded differently, maybe it doesn't work that way. Seems much more logical to me that it would do something though.

[Quantum Steve]

Well, if the Paladin has already chosen this favored class bonus, then she would have Energy Resistance. If the bonus didn't "add" (read: stack) you could only benefit from the bonus once for each energy type.