Hey,
I was currently playing an oath of the ancients paladin. So far I had resolved most things peaceful. (Killing only in the crypt, in the tollhouse and some gnolls) When entering the destroyed village for the first time, I stopped the ambush with a successful intimidation roll. Then I went to the windmill. I had Wyll as companion, so the boss is now dead, the rest ran away.
Then I was playing around with Hamarhraft (deals damage around the location where you land when jumping), injured and subsequently killed one of the goblins in the destroyed village. When he died I lost my oath and got the oathbreaker invitation.
Now I'm confused. As a good aligned paladin, am I supposed to kill goblins? Or help them? Or just ignore them and let them do whatever they like? Or do I really have to make my decisions based on the personality of each individual goblin?
Currently it does not matter what you are killing if it is an undead demon devil gnoll fey goblinoid. I f you knock the target out ak pacifying . And you are not an oath breaker.
Then you will get broken oath sooner or later.
As others say if you kill someone that is not generally aggressive towards to you. Is count as like killing Jesus it self.
Even if that someone you just knocked out. And died fom ground effects like lava fire acid moon beam ect.... Count as killing Jesus. I hope it helps I could not manage not even one time to finish ea w/o loosing my oath. And I tryed out 15 different builds.