Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Bye bye Paladin Deities

By the rules Paladins don't need a God, but every... single... person... playing D&D picks a god for their Paladin. Being a Paladin joining the wall of the faithless is just headachingly stupid and no one plays that way.

* I know someone will come and say "I do!" Well a great big bears hug to you!

All you'd need to do to accomodate paladins of specific gods is to allow them access to certain dialogue choices and reactions based on their god. It's not demanding much more than would be demanded from a cleric.

Speaking about 5e as a whole, my opinion has long been that they decoupled paladins from explicit religions because they felt it went without saying. They understood that 90% of players would still give their paladin a religion because they understood that it's just how it goes that players give all their characters patron gods as part of character creation. They simply changed this up to allow for a bit more openness for those who wanted to play edge cases and provide some inspiration to stoke those more unique ideas. the problem with BG3 is that they don't allow anyone other than clerics to choose gods. (which by the way is something that Wrath of the Righteous managed to do without issue, including bits of reactivity all through the game depending on what god or religion you chose)

I don't really see the harm in providing people a option at least. The work is already done with cleric tags.

Given the setting of Forgotten Realms and what happened regarding god intervening. I think every class should be able to pick a god.

In the setting of forgotten realms most people are polythestic. Picking one go's to devote too isn't common at all.

Oh indeed given the many aspect the various gods assume, of course exception with tyrannical deities that you will only worship them and thats it (Bane, Cyrric etc)

In the setting of forgotten realms most people are polythestic. Picking one god's to devote too isn't common at all.

Actually, in the Realms, while most people may give short prayers and thanks to multiple gods in various pantheons (like giving a short prayer to Umberlee when going out into the ocean), the vast majority of people tend to have a favored god or goddess. And, for afterlife reasoning (even though it may have been changed), there is good reason.

I don't really see the harm in providing people a option at least. The work is already done with cleric tags.

It was even further along than that. In the datamines paladins already had their unique deity-aligned lines already written out and ready to go for EA, but they scrapped it all for some reason when Paladin came out. Every deity had their own paladin-specific lines too-it looked great.

The weird dialogue in certain places of EA regarding Zariel's fallen paladins, or where your paladin mentions serving a goddess are the remains of all that hard work larian did that they weren't able to fully scrub out.

They even had unique lines that were different from the Cleric lines? Real shame that they scrapped this.