MonkeezOnFire
Adventurer
So up until now I have thought of the Oath of the Ancients as a paladin oath with a bit of a druid bent. A lot of it's abilities are themed with plant life, it has spells from the druid spell list, it's channel divinity is associated with fey (which are in turn associated with forests), and it's called a green knight. In my mind it allowed a paladin to follow a more nature themed god, whereas the oath of devotion paladin can seem a bit too based in ideas of civilization (after all the devotion paladin is a hyper idealized knight from the age of chivalry).
But recently I came across this question on the RPG Stack Exchange site where most of the answers argue that the Oath of Ancients paladin is not entirely about nature, they just use nature as a metaphor for resisting darkness and corruption. The main backing of this interpretation comes from the set of oaths, which admittedly are not very nature centric by themselves. These paladins are all about sheltering the light which creates an environment for all life to live peacefully and grow. But this raises the issue of how they differ in attitudes from the oath of devotion paladin if both sets of rules pretty much amount to "Be a good person and fight against bad things."
So now I'm curious what other people think. Without referring to your books, what is your personal idea of an Oath of Ancients paladin? How do you think they differ from the oath of devotion?
But recently I came across this question on the RPG Stack Exchange site where most of the answers argue that the Oath of Ancients paladin is not entirely about nature, they just use nature as a metaphor for resisting darkness and corruption. The main backing of this interpretation comes from the set of oaths, which admittedly are not very nature centric by themselves. These paladins are all about sheltering the light which creates an environment for all life to live peacefully and grow. But this raises the issue of how they differ in attitudes from the oath of devotion paladin if both sets of rules pretty much amount to "Be a good person and fight against bad things."
So now I'm curious what other people think. Without referring to your books, what is your personal idea of an Oath of Ancients paladin? How do you think they differ from the oath of devotion?