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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1542120" data-attributes="member: 3146">As others have said, no punishment unless you want one of the themes of your game to be that rash oaths are dangerous and that promises are the same as oaths.And, if you do want that to be a theme of your game, you STILL should not punish the paladin by taking away his powers. Making his rash oath is not anything peculiar to a paladin. If there is to be any punishment, it should be visited upon all characters who make promises that they don't keep--Paladin or no. Anyway, in order to do that kind of thing properly, it would need to be a real oath "By Thor and Baldur, may my strength wither if I ever fail to protect you" or something like that. From the sounds of things, you need to introduce such concepts to your game first (and give people a reason to make such oaths--perhaps it simply has social benefits inasmuch as people are expected to call down punishments upon themselves in the making of solemn oaths or perhaps the gods called to witness an oath actually help in the performance of it).</blockquote>