Originally Posted by
Godless_Paladin
Well, unfortunately, I save my choicer ideas for my own homebrew.
Honestly though, the first thing you'll want to do is figure out exactly what kind of flavor you want from your paladin, and mark that down. For example, do you really *want* flashing street thugs with your holy symbol to make them crumble into dust and make that something that's happening every encounter? Do you want the Paladin to be more "nonmagical"? Does the Paladin talk with his God on occasion? Should the Paladin be able to shoot lightning out of his sword, or is that out of the question? And so forth. I wouldn't want to say that you should go "I have the power!" and have a bolt of Thor's Lightning strike your Holy Sword and chain to other people around you if that's not the kind of thing you want to see your Paladin doing.
Tweaking the spell list to make sure you actually get things that are really relevant to actually be prepared at the level you get them would go a long way, though. :Thumbsup: