That's the thing, I don't want to become an Oathbreaker and certainly not accidentally and then restore my state every time. (I'm in the process of reflavouring a replacement class for the non-existent Artificer Class for my Dwarven Guild Artisan).
Just to make sure we’re on the same page with respect to the terms, you don’t become an Oathbreaker paladin (ie adopt the subclass) just by breaking your oath. That requires active repudiation of your oath to the Oathbreaker knight. A paladin who has broken but not repudiated their oath just loses their Channel Oath powers, so I guess in a sense they just become like a paladin who hasn’t sworn an oath. You can still cast paladin spells and use abilities that don’t require Channel Oath, or at least I never found anything else I couldn’t do though I’ve never stayed in that state long.
In short, you can never become an Oathbreaker (subclass) accidentally, so that doesn’t need to be a worry. And if you don’t want to be beholden to an oath, then as long as you don’t want to actually use any Channel Oath powers, you can just do whatever you want and ignore any impact on the oath. If you do want to retain your Channel Oath powers then I think it would only be right that the game would expect you to uphold the oath even if you were only a very junior paladin (I can’t actually recall what powers we get at what level, though there presumably wouldn’t be much to lose early on). But I’ll be disappointed if it’s as easy to break our oaths in circumstances that don’t seem reasonable when the game releases so hopefully that’ll be less of a concern, too.
Apologies if that is just telling you a bunch of stuff you already know or doesn’t help with your challenge!
