My 2024 Paladin Homebrew Divine smite Rules I use for my table. Do you agree?

for the new Paladin rules, I made a couple of my own changes to the smite to ease some of the neutering DS gets while keeping the intention in mind.

  1. Divine smite is brought back to not being a “spell” and is a feature again

  2. Divine smite is now a once per turn feature rather than a bonus action. This means opportunity attacks are fair game for smite while allowing the paladin to do other things than smite on their turn.

  3. You may smite on a critical even if you expended your smite that round at the cost of your reaction.

  4. All smite spells are bundled into this once per turn feature for use after hit on an attack. This means any type of “branding smite” can be used as a Divine smite. No need for concentration.