I'm not sure what you were asking with the last bit - I'm certainly not against paladins being able to select a deity and follow one actively, I'm just making the note that it's not necessary, in any realm, FR included - so it should very much be an option, but amongst the various deity options, 'no specific deity' must remain available as well. I touched on the mechanics of how paladins gain and use their power without an intermediary deity before, if that's what you were meaning? I can try to go into a bit more detail on that, but we begin to run out of material for the specifics once you get that close in. I can talk about the intention of the philosophy, but I won't have any documents to point at or reference to back that up.
Oh no need. I was merely curious about where you fell on the issue of paladins having the option of a patron deity.
To me this is very basic to a D&D RPG, and Larian not including this in BG3 is just one more way in which this game has been a gigantic disappointment as a Baldur's Gate/Forgotten Realms RPG.
I can understand that having a game of your beloved franchise being a disappointment is a big deal, but then again, in the original game i still couldn't follow a god as a paladin, and i had to be a cleric of a god i didn't want to follow or it was just kitless cleric.
So the original games were not super heavy with options, and there were like 2 ways tops to solve a quest with some exceptions.
One could argue of course that it's 2023 now and not 2000, and they would be right, but again, i think people like BG because they had tons of fun back then with it, it was something new, sort of.
Myself included in this. But the game was, while extremely solid with memorable characters, not the masterpiece technically that i originally thought it was(as heretical as this opinion might sound like). I mostly find that although some fantastic games out there exist, I can't find the original enjoyment i had back then.
Anyway to each their own, of course.
