I don’t want to spoil this for anyone, however, something seems very very off to a point where I am doomed to fail in early Act 1. I created the Paladin, broke the oath, became an oathbreaker. Went off to the druid village, did the usual quests. Specifically - interacting with the musical tiefling who is writing a song.
Upon my first attempt for a full rest after that, something happens where I seemingly pretty much fucked over my game with my level 3 party. Other than avoiding that quest or avoiding being an oathbreaker at that point, my only option is reroll non-dark urge or go way back to a much earlier save. I do not believe having a dark urge oathbreaker paladin early on is doable.
Anyone else have this experience?
Here’s the spoiler:
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___ I was a level 4 Dark Urge Oathbreaker Paladin. I broke my oath before the first rest and the Oathbreaker Knight came to our camp. I spoke with him and agreed to be an Oathbreaker. Next day, we visit the Druid Camp where I spoke with, and played a song with the tiefling, Alfira. I won my rolls and she gave me the lute.
I continue on my adventure and head to the place where Withers lives, clearing out that area, and after a few fights realize I need to long rest. We set up camp there and to my surprise Alfira comes to talk with me wanting to join us. I agree to this and finally hit the bedroll.
My character wakes up in the middle of the night to a violently dead Alfira and blood all over me. Clearly my dark urge did something that I couldn’t control. I cleaned everything up and went back to sleep.
Upon awakening my party sees the horror of the bloody tiefling corpse and I told them I didn’t know what happened but think it could have been me, hoping for some sort of understanding from my party members. While they were startled but willing to work with me to help figure out what is wrong with me, the Oathbreaker Knight wasn’t having any of it and immediately puts us in combat with him.
He is a level 12 Paladin with all 3 auras of each subclass of paladin on him with about 230 hitpoints. Now there’s no way my party can kill him. I can’t even hit him. So my options are 1) go back to a much earlier save and have another character try to interact with Alfira or just ignore her completely 2) respec my whole character, making it another class or 3) reroll from the begining and don’t choose the Dark Urge character.
I am in a co-op game and thinking the Dark Urge is likely to give us further problems down the road and I was looking forward to this character being a Bardadin for reasons, hence my interaction with Alfira in the first place. We ultimately chose to reroll the same classes, leaving the Dark Urge out for a solo run later down the line, as we had been planning this campaign for a bit and don’t want to encounter further surprises that might stop us in our tracks like this one.
You got me curious enough to try to understand the mechanics of what you mean, since I thought if you already were oathbreaker there’s no problem
I see one post from someone saying the oathbreaker knight can aggro you, depending on which camp you rest at. Most will be fine, but some place the knight close enough to be angry
Is that your issue?
We were camping inside the cathedral where you find Withers. Specifically, we made camp in the room where the 4 people attack you. I didn’t realize it was a proximity thing. Thanks for the input. That game may be salvageable after all.
Glad to help, I think most here were confused because there’s otherwise no issue with oathbreaker subclass and murder lol
There aren’t many interactions which outright rob you of your agency, and indeed it’s very possible to resist the urges. It shouldn’t strongly impede any paladin playthrough, apart from that one hiccup that happens at camp.
Oh it was the hiccup at camp indeed! I explained it in more detail in a separate reply. Loving the game but hate to ruin someone else’s enjoyment of revealing storylines :)
Nope. Level 4 oathbreaker. I broke my oath, restored it, broke it again. It’s all good. You should add more detail by you seemingly pretty much fucked up the game. I don’t know what that means.
Explained the situation in detail l in a reply to the earlier post.
