Can my companions become oathbreaker by my actions?

[Kamuizin]

Do my companions risk oathbreaking by actions of my Tav, if i make them paladins? Searched a bit on google, reddit and larian forums, but found no secure answer for this.

[zero]

only if they're doing the talking/action

[Soteria]

Originally posted by Kamuizin:

Do my companions risk oathbreaking by actions of my Tav, if i make them paladins? Searched a bit on google, reddit and larian forums, but found no secure answer for this.

A big loophole in the oaths is that only what you say/do matters. To an extent it makes sense; you wouldn't want to have a morally dubious party member breaking your oath by swindling someone, for example. But it gets a little weird when you're hanging out with someone doing truly evil stuff and it has no effect on your oath.

[Kamuizin]

Don’t know if it’s because of 5e or if it’s BG3 itself, but paladins are sounding more like Pillar of Eternity paladins and less like D&D paladins, where their powers are bound to a zealot conviction and not the divine.

I don’t know 5e very well, maybe this is the new face or paladins.

[zero]

Originally posted by Kamuizin:

Don’t know if it’s because of 5e or if it’s BG3 itself, but paladins are sounding more like Pillar of Eternity paladins and less like D&D paladins, where their powers are bound to a zealot conviction and not the divine.

I don’t know 5e very well, maybe this is the new face or paladins.

thats how 5e paladins are, at the least, and yeah its a bit strange that they're fiathless (or faith optional, i suppose)

[Gamefever]

I just learned first hand,

YES companion characters can break their oath if they take an action under your direct input that would result in a breach of oath.

Example, Today in fact
Had a reclassed companion character break apart a petrified drow, figured well she had a warhammer afterall.
Laezil even said something about feeling different.
Then oathbreaker pally shows up in camp.

Honor Mode, could not just reload so I caughed up the gold and paid the penance price to return her to normal pally standing.

But dang, it was a petrified drow....Was already pretty much dead anyway.