@JeremyECrawford So wait.
RAW, these paladins still deal Radiant damage with Divine Smite, right?
— Tyler Bechstein (@wetsail) December 19, 2016
@wetsail Yep.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) December 19, 2016
@wetsailThat’s, uh…
It kinda feels against theme? Take a look at the description of radiant damage in the PH (p. 196).— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) December 19, 2016
@wetsail Still, though. I get that Radiant damage isn’t “Nice” damage, but fiends don’t usually hang with folks that deal Radiant. A subset of a subclass consorts with devils, none of which have weakness to radiance.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) December 20, 2016
@wetsail Fair, but radiant is almost always delt by enemies of Hell. It doesn’t feel thematically consistent with itself. Every damage type is marshaled in the wars against fiends. They have no special dislike for radiance.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) December 20, 2016