It's definitely for the best that the Paladin oaths in Baldur's Gate 3 don't force you to play 'lawful stupid' and allow you to, for example, lie to the game's various villains in order to progress quests without having to immediately fight everybody. But also it's extremely silly that apparently if I attack a guard in the prison of the evil lair that's considered oathbreaking, but if I have Astarion backstab a guard to aggro them and then throw that same guard into a chasm, that's not oathbreaking.
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every god in baldur's gate works on the morrowind legal system
One of the first things I learned about BG3 is that the oathbreaker stuff is completely broken and arbitrary lmao
I only ran into oathbreaking once in my Paladin playthrough, which was triggered by the aforementioned law system... I wonder if you can trigger oathbreaking by breaking one of the scrying orbs, since the game treats that as 'murder'. I assume doing any of the truly evil options is oathbreaking but the oath is seemingly okay with, say, talking Kar'Niss into getting his ass (abdomen?) shadow cursed.
Very glad Paladins have moved away from Lawful Good alignment requirements, starting with 4e.
i think this is actually extremely accurate to the experience of early medieval oaths. if someone else does it it's not you, and God is fine with it. seems normal to me