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Sorry, my intention was not to show that oathbreaker is not evil.

Let me put it that way:
Depending on your oath, you can break your oath by doing something good which means you can become an evil class by doing something good.

Funny thing to note: mid to low level deities can see you if you say their name. Praying is even better. Apparently divine multitasking is quite potent as well. Depending on how strong the deity is, it can be quite the distance around your location. Many spells and other deities can block this particular sight. Greater deities have this and more on a higher scale. Clever thing deities could do is send a follower to a place they can't see for vision through them.

Technically you could harrass a good deity into helping you in such a situation as an Oath Breaker that you suggested by praying. The choices would be to divinely block your number, smite the day lights out of you, or take pity and help you while starting a Godly Mafia war with the evil deity you dumped(more common than you'd think). You'd be under the new gods protection assuming you lucked out with the last option.

Roughly 33 percent chance of success with mid and lower level deities. Greater deities would probably kill you unless you bargain. Over deities would wipe out your existence if you even register as much. Lol

In fact, there is a fairly high probability that Larian / WotC wants to move away from it. From what I remember there is a book in the game about some not evil oathbreaker.

Hmm, alright. Yes, I am indeed pleasantly surprised to see that paladins are not as strict as I thought. Now I even dare creating one! (although, he is gonna be as stereotypical as ... As... Banana bread. Yes, very stereotypical. x] )




I do see your point (I am however in no position to participate in the debate regarding what paladins are / aren't) - but I agree when you say that one should just try and stay true to the original rules until one actually understands them. It just makes sense to me, however I will not say that anyone shouldn't do what they way - it is a RP world after all. :] But to me, staying to the stereotypes at first helps me build a proper understanding so that I later can go into more complex and compelling character writing

Human Paladin, lawful good all the way! By the light be purged!

For the sake of fun, I'd honestly say do whatever you want. I like some homebrew. I wish Larian could use material outside of base 5e phb. I'm interested in "Grim Hollow" books and recently Unearthed arcana they have added expansions to dragonborn. Breath weapons that can be used with multi attack that scales off constitution and levels. Separated by three subclasses too. Chromatic can get temporary immunity to their element, Metallic get extra crowd control version of breath weapon, and most excitingly Gem get some kind of weird Gem oriented flight(Idk what it is but it sounds awesome).

I don't blame people for being interested in spicing things up for fun is what I'm trying to say. Do whats fun.

Its why I don't really participate in some of the more heated debates on the forums. Lol. I just wanted to answer your questions and talk about lore.

And I very much appreciate your answer. <3 I too hope to see some stuff added from the additional sources of DnD, like TCoE. I been so stuck for the Arcane Archer ever since I played it in PoE and now I also read some of the lore and playstyle of the Bladesinger and I would loooove to make a character in that category as well...

Too bad there is really just too much goodies of DnD, it'll take ages for everything to arrive to BG3 Hope we all get what we're longing for, all in due time. <3

I assume you know about the arcane archer fighter subclass from Xanathar's? They have some flavor that I wish eldritch knight had. I mean the cantrips like shadow blade, booming, and green flame is nice and all but arcane shot has more options for fun.

I'm not really much of an archer kind of guy. I'm more of a Goliath Rune Knight fighter kind of guy. "Nobody's killing a bigger dragon than me". Lol

I know how it feels to not have things you want in bg3. Those expansions really complete 5e. I hope, in vain, that Larian adds more at least over time.

Edit: Dragon's Dogma has the best magic archer I've ever played. I know Tales of Phantasia and Tales of the Abyss have magic archers. Though they are very old and might be hard to get a hold of. If you want a challenge then Smite may scratch that itch, but its online multiplayer and a moba.