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I remember back when D&D removed racial alignments. The tears were delicious.
The alignment system probably has a direct throughline with the emergence of the political compass type reactionaries. It’s always been bad and ought to be removed entirely.
Ah but your paladin is now in a contrived situation that requires oathbreaking either way
Also that fucking kobold self-insert a backer put into one of the pathfinder games.
Which character was this? Worst thing I remember was that quest in Kingmaker with the edgy human pirate self-insert character.
I'm also relieved that Baldur's Gate 3 dropped the alignment system for a CRPG. It's always been so annoying to have the computer hard-track an "alignment meter," and now I can relax and focus on what my character would want to do.
Crinukh (AKA Kreia with scales).
Fortunately, I barely remember that one. It at least didn't have a quest that fucked the strategy layer of the game until you completed it.
Could you talk to your God's tech support for something like that?
In lore? Kinda, Paladins can be redeemed. In game, it’s up to the DM (who would also be the one who contrived the situation to begin with).
I would be mega salt about needing to be redeemed if I didn't have a choice but to break my oath.
I’ve never encountered a table that bad before, but I’ve heard stories. With the amount of online games now, I think players are a lot less pressured to deal with toxic stuff like that.
I haven't had to think about my 'local' brick-and-mortar for 15 years and I'd like to keep it that way
Remember the rage over that time WotC published a wheelchair accessible dungeon a few years back? I specifically remember a lot of explaining how a wheelchair bound wizard should actually just waste spell slots on Fly whenever he wants to move around or simply cast Wish to restore the function of his legs gg ez.
On the subject of D&D I find paladins kinda sus. I have both seen first hand or heard about way too many fash types who flock to that class because they want to be epic Lawful Good doesn't mean Lawful Nice "nits make lice" Gygaxian genociders of designated evil races while having divine backing and being the in-universe embodiment of good morals.