Paladins are great to counteract the murderhobo in the game

[Go____Urself]

Just kill indiscriminately? Oathbreaker! I love it. Stop being a murderhobo maybe?

[Go____Urself]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seven of Nine:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Go____Urself:

Just kill indiscriminately? Oathbreaker! I love it. Stop being a murderhobo maybe?

As far as I know you can still start a fight with one of your companions, and join the fight with your paladin and not break your oath. These count as self-defence / defence of companions.
And if you want to be an Oathbreaker, you can murderhobo the very same way you'd with other classes. :p

I mean sure, there's a way to avoid becoming an Oathbreaker. However, there's a reason not to be a murder hobo now at least whereas before, there was no reason to not kill everything in sight.

Maybe that's something Larian should address. Why can the "heros" kill everything in sight with no reprecussions? They should have a horrible reputation everywhere if they go and kill everything in sight. Kill all the druids and tieflings in the grove for the lulz? Your rep takes a huge hit elsewhere.

[Gaius]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Go____Urself:

Just kill indiscriminately? Oathbreaker! I love it. Stop being a murderhobo maybe?

You know you can do ANYTHING with other characters, right? And the pally will gladly kill if it starts combat?

[Seven of Nine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Go____Urself:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seven of Nine:

As far as I know you can still start a fight with one of your companions, and join the fight with your paladin and not break your oath. These count as self-defence / defence of companions.
And if you want to be an Oathbreaker, you can murderhobo the very same way you'd with other classes. :p

I mean sure, there's a way to avoid becoming an Oathbreaker. However, there's a reason not to be a murder hobo now at least whereas before, there was no reason to not kill everything in sight.

Maybe that's something Larian should address. Why can the "heros" kill everything in sight with no reprecussions? They should have a horrible reputation everywhere if they go and kill everything in sight. Kill all the druids and tieflings in the grove for the lulz? Your rep takes a huge hit elsewhere.

Honestly too early to say that Larian is not aware or not trying to address the situation. I think there will be repercussions, that will reflect primarily on your story line.
To be honest there are so many nice ways Larian can just to unexpected twists.
What if on the long run helping the tieflings and the grove will turn out to be evil?
What if actually siding with the Goblins is the correct thing to do? In DnD, evil does not solely exist as a force of evil, but also as a way to maintain the cosmic balance. In a way an evil God's existence is necessary so that the forces of good are balanced on a cosmic scale, until the experiment is over...

Other than that, who really cares about a bunch of tree-huggers and devilkins? There is a racism going against Tieflings anyway, due to people (in DnD) not necessarily understanding them.

I am pretty sure your actions will have consequence, that was true for the previous two Larian games too, although on a lesser extent. BG3 is already more promising, cause not even DoS2 came this close to the open permutability of actions' end result. What I'm hoping is that Larian will twist what's good and what's not so in the world of DnD. I hope they will go into a moral grey-zone or an ambiguity or even a controversy or moral paradox. That'd make BG3's story an unforgettable one.

[AsianGirlLover]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Asneeze:

If they add Oath of Vengence, we could still sort of be murderhobos as long as we're aware of any lawbreaking.

Steal some gold? Straight to the Abyss.
Murder innocents? Straight to the Abyss.
Jaywalking? Straight to the Abyss.
Unpaid taxes? Straight to the Abyss.

What about entertaining the thought of doing any one of those things?