Broken Oath.

[METHSTROKE]

Don't spoil it for me, I'm not playing through it yet, but my paladin character has broken his oath:
First church fight, Gimblebock and all of those guys, I intimidated them and then realized it was probably a bad idea to just let marauders go like that, so I enter turn based mode and get an attack off, after clearing them all out I realize I used a critical backbreaker with my warhammer and knocked the fighter unconscious. With all his friends dead, and everyones stuff looted after battle, I didn't worry too much about him as a threat, but as a form of mercy kill, (he was on one health) and the fact that the debuff unconscious says (temporary) at the top, I didn't really want to leave him alive so that he might randomly get up and dumpster my already fragile Galebro. So naturally, He got bonked.

And that, for some logic or reason, broke my oath.

So that leads to the question, how fragile or nonsensical is the games oath system? Am I going to oathbreak like every other hour from a nonevil interaction? I understand the game is probably only so in depth, and runs through basic 'checks' and killing a 'noncombatant' (even though he isn't) probably set it off.

[Lil Grandpa]

Originally posted by Korgz:

Originally posted by Vril VVizard:

I've played the game before, even without meta knowledge wanting to murder someone because they stumbled in on your looting warrants a killing.

You basically walked into their house and they had a right to defend themselves.

Lol. They were degenerate grave-robbing thugs and had no qualms about murdering your ass and stripping your gear from your corpse if you failed a persuasion check. It's not like these guys were innocent. I agree with your former points though in regards to Paladin behavior.

[daniel1vicentevieira]

funny, played a paladin first, and only once I broke the oath. I played overall a good boy, but I had a very heavy hand, often hitting first and asking questions later (to bodies).

what broke my oath was letting Astarion finish the ritual (which I rolled back to the savegame, I was in no condition of facing the monster hunters after Cazador fight with a powerless paladin and exhausted casters). Imo even this shouldn't really break the oath, the ritual killed thousands of vampire spawn, not babies, but well, I wasn't the GM...

[Darielek]

Some oath is break too easly. Spoiler below:

I was in Baldurs Gate make quest for fireworks. I sneak into 2nd floor to discover bomb factory and my quest log said i should stop them. I cancel my sneak mode, when dialog options come i choose to attack (i had only go back, pay or attack) and i break my oath.
Lucky me i found solution - go other character and let them attack me, so i can join my main paladin to fight and dont break oath, but still it was frustrating.

[Mokona]

Oathbreaker is the only oath