Originally Posted by "azarhal"
Originally Posted by Vitani
But the core of roleplaying a paladin is... meh. I get that most of the things are effects of the various EA bugs, but there are a few things that stand out. Like the deity, I know the 5ed paladins don't need a chosen deity. Even Anders (not sure I got his name right?), the oathbreaker we meet during the Karlach quest clearly was a paladin of Tyr, now sworn to a devil. During a dialogue with him we can even say something about him "betraying our god to serve a devil" or something in those lines.

What god? Did the game defult us to following Tyr?

Paladin used to have a deity selection. It was disabled in the UI for patch 9, but they haven't removed all the reference in dialogues and it default. Ethel's vicious mockery apparently refer to Lolth as the Paladin's god (it might require playing a Drow, I'm not sure).

There is another place in-game that refers to Paladin having divine power too. The sentient door in Ethel lair has a cutscene that has the narrator mention Paladins with divine powers came to visit (and that scene was added in patch 8). If all the NPCs Paladin are divine powered, but ours can't have a chosen deity to be, it's going to feel really weird while playing.
Weird is one way of putting it. Now that you mention autie Ethel I do recall the cutscene showing those paladins, was wondering if my memory started to get worse since last patch or it was a new one smile

Didn't get to the Gale dialogue, as his cutscenes stopped triggering at some point. I started a new playthrough after testing the paladin to level 4 (didn't get to 5, as I got annoyed at both Gale's dialogue being broken AND me breaking my oath out of the blue), let's see what else is...newly broken smile

What a mess laugh