Ranged Paladin

[Beoelf]

Im getting that Cringy 5e feel on my paladin that I wanted to be ranged. 5e forces paladins into a melee build because of the starter bonuses. I want a ranged paladin like pathfinder had with the divine hunter. Retributive strike is melee only? why!!! get rid of this melee only paladin mental block that games seem to have these days and let us champions of the gods actually decide to avenge from a distance. Let us avenge the downtrodden with arrows of justice!!!! Please?

[Vidmaster7]

Could be a cool archetype, with the current rules I think if you multi-class fighter it would probably be pretty effective.

[Rizzalliss]

I'm right there with you, man.

Personally, the ONLY complaint I have with the 5e Pally is the denial of ranged combat options.

I loved playing archery-based Paladins in PF1e. One of my favorite character moments of all time was Smiting a red dragon and confirming that sweet, sweet 3x longbow critical on that first attack with its double smite damage.

When I saw the PF2 Pally, my heart sank, the lack of Archery value being a part of that.

I'm quite disappointed that this edition is pushing classes in general into specific stat arrays and stereotypes. Taking away my freedom of choice is quite the opposite of what I desired from this edition.