Being too nice breaks the oath of vengeance?

[plasticsoda]

My paladin has broken his oath and I can't tell if it's because I killed a bunch of goblin children or let that encaged goblin in the Druid grove live. Have you broek your oath yet?

[Doomvora]

It's likely the goblin in the druid grove living, read your tenants.

[Elazul]

It was the letting the goblin go. Best way to not break your oath is when the [Paladin] options presents itself ALWAYS select it. Also, Oath of Vengeance paladins NEVER let evil doers go. Doing so violates your oath.

[Greenegg]

I'd guess it's letting the captured goblin that has plans to slaughter innocents go, doesn't sound very vengeful to me.

[plasticsoda]

Originally posted by Doomvora:

It's likely the goblin in the druid grove living, read your tenants.

Thanks, I kind of regreit not killing the little prick since the tieflings just kill it anyway once the conflict is resolved

[Lunar Shower]

Its cause you freed the goblin in the prison cell. Vengeance Oath is nigh on impossible to break, short of, in a situation, siding with the greater evil or allowing them to live when confronted with them. In other words, sparing the life of a war prisoner, and one who is clearly pretty much reveling in being an evil little ♥♥♥♥, is gonna lead to some problems even for a Vengeance pally, especially for a Vengeance pally.

That said, honestly, did the entire game as Vengeance paladin without ever breaking my oath. Its definitely the easiest of the three to RP however you want, and make largely whatever decisions you want as many can just be handwaved as "for the greater good" since Vengeance paladins don't even need to remain pure or good, so long as they realize their righteous fury and, well, vengeance. If you go swearing on your oath though, and failing to uphold it when otherwise you could have succeeded, you'll likely be more open to breaking it as well frankly.

[plasticsoda]

Originally posted by Elazul:

It was the letting the goblin go. Best way to not break your oath is when the [Paladin] options presents itself ALWAYS select it. Also, Oath of Vengeance paladins NEVER let evil doers go. Doing so violates your oath.

I didn't let it go, I've killed every single goblin i've encontered so far in my game, it just didn't seem fair for the tiefling to go down that path of vengeance. I did not do so out of mercy for the creature, but out of care for the tiefling. Well, it at least it made for a good RP opportunity and now I have cooler powers

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

That said, honestly, did the entire game as Vengeance paladin without ever breaking my oath. Its definitely the easiest of the three to RP however you want, and make largely whatever decisions you want as many can just be handwaved as "for the greater good" since Vengeance paladins don't even need to remain pure or good, so long as they realize their righteous fury and, well, vengeance. If you go swearing on your oath though, and failing to uphold it when otherwise you could have succeeded, you'll likely be more open to breaking it as well frankly.

I lost my oath once because i chose to make a temporary and fake alliance with a certain NPC in Baldurs Gate (yes that guy) in act 3 with the intention of explicitly betraying him. Wasnt expecting it seeing as he was surrounded by lv12s at the time as didnt think id have to fight him then and there.

[plasticsoda]

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

Its cause you freed the goblin in the prison cell. Vengeance Oath is nigh on impossible to break, short of, in a situation, siding with the greater evil or allowing them to live when confronted with them. In other words, sparing the life of a war prisoner, and one who is clearly pretty much reveling in being an evil little ♥♥♥♥, is gonna lead to some problems even for a Vengeance pally, especially for a Vengeance pally.

That said, honestly, did the entire game as Vengeance paladin without ever breaking my oath. Its definitely the easiest of the three to RP however you want, and make largely whatever decisions you want as many can just be handwaved as "for the greater good" since Vengeance paladins don't even need to remain pure or good, so long as they realize their righteous fury and, well, vengeance. If you go swearing on your oath though, and failing to uphold it when otherwise you could have succeeded, you'll likely be more open to breaking it as well frankly.

>"for the greater good"
That's the thing, I let the little prick imprisioned in his cage. The greater good for me was not letting the tiefling stain the memory of her brother with blood of a despiseful creature