Can Paladins be Poisoned?
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Paladins are immune to diseases, but they are not immune to poison, meaning they can be affected by poisonous effects. However, their immunity to diseases can protect them from certain conditions that might indirectly relate to poison, such as the Rutterkin’s disease conditions, where a paladin would not turn into a Rutterkin if they die from a poisoned effect that is also classified as a disease.
Understanding Paladin Immunities
Paladins have several immunities and resistances that make them formidable opponents on the battlefield, including immunity to diseases. This means they cannot contract or be affected by diseases, whether they are natural, magical, or supernatural in origin. However, this immunity does not extend to poison, which is a separate affliction.
Paladin Abilities and Poison
While paladins are not immune to poison, they have abilities and spells that can cure poison and other afflictions. For example, the Purify ability can cure both diseases and poisons quickly, making it a valuable asset for paladins and their allies.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What are Paladins Immune to?
Paladins are immune to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases.
2. Can Paladins Get Sick?
Paladins are not supposed to be immune to the cold (as in temperature), just to disease.
3. Can Paladins Cure Poison?
Purify is a very useful Paladin ability early on, since it can cure both diseases and poisons quickly.
4. Can a Paladin Lose Their Powers?
Failure to maintain a lawful good alignment or adhere to the code of conduct causes paladins to lose their paladin status and many of their special abilities until they are able to atone.
5. Do Paladins Get Poison Immunity?
Paladins become immune to diseases, not poison. However, as the Rutterkin specifically says ‘by disease’, the paladin would be immune to it indeed.
6. What are Paladins Weaknesses?
Weaknesses of paladins include their slow movement, vulnerability to ice damage, and poison weakness.
7. Are Paladins Immune to Alcohol?
Since alcoholism is a disease in Pathfinder, which paladins become immune to, they are technically immune to the detrimental effects of alcoholism.
8. Can Paladins Bloodlust?
Bloodlust was not added until The Burning Crusade, when it and Heroism were added as level 70 abilities as part of the decision to allow paladins and shaman in both factions.
9. Can Paladins Smell Evil?
The Paladin’s Divine Sense has an always active component: “The presence of strong evil registers on your Senses like a noxious odor, and powerful good rings like heavenly music in your ears.”
10. Can Paladins Drink Alcohol?
Paladins can drink. There is nothing against it.
11. Can Paladins Not Have a God?
Paladins need not serve a God, but many do. Point of interest: even if the Paladin serves a god, that god does not grant the Paladin their spells.
12. Do Paladins Swear to a God?
Most Paladins are sworn to a deity. But all Paladins receive their powers from deities, whether or not they are aware of it or not.
13. Are Paladins Immortal?
If you’re talking about death by aging, Oath of the Ancients Paladin’s lvl 15 feature grants biological immortality.
14. Why Can Only Humans Be Paladins?
The restrictions on Paladins having to be human goes back to the basis/origin of the class itself – Knightly orders were thought to be a “human thing”, and so that restriction was put into the basic rules.
15. Can a Paladin Heal Himself?
Reviewing the Lay On Hands ability: Lay On Hands wrote: Beginning at 2nd level, a paladin can heal wounds (her own or those of others) by touch.