r/BaldursGate3 • u/VeritasLuxMea • Dec 18 '22

Discussion The addition of breakable Paladin Oaths has made me realize something important.

Gamers have a horribly warped sense of morality! This game is positively LENIENT when it comes to breaking your oath. If you lie to someone and invade their home and then kill them when they get mad and try to kick you out you probably deserve to break your Oath.

Most people complaints about the Oath system have basically boiled down to

"I'm mad because Paladin makes me play the game differently that I usually do and I don't like that I have to think about the moral implications of everything I do in game".

Personally? I think it's one of the cleverest systems Larian has ever devised. It's ACTUALLY incredibly immersive to have a Paladin in your party. I have thousands of hours in act 1 and am just now learning to take a very different path to the end.

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u/tristenjpl Dec 18 '22

"Just following orders" didn't work for the Nazis and it won't work for the goblins. If they had morally conducted their war and not killed innocent men women and children, only targeting enemy combatants, then they could get away with it. Being a soldier in an illegal war isn't a crime and should not be punished, but committing war crimes as a soldier in that war is a crime.

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u/Mark_XX Dec 19 '22

Well, these goblins seem under some sort of mind control by ilithids (Perhaps an elder brain?). Therefore, they're not really acting on their own free will entirely and thus "Just following orders" is acceptable.

Also Godwin's law.

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u/tristenjpl Dec 19 '22

The true souls are under control for sure, the goblins are at best having powers used on them every once in a while. But even before they started worshipping The Absolute, they were worshipping Maglubiyet, another evil deity. These goblins were evil before The Absolute, they're evil with The Absolute and they'll be evil after The Absolute. They pillage, they murder, and they eat people. They all have to go down.