the oaths dont do much now as it is. few spells and some channel divinity. I think the three we have now should do more before we are given new ones. But id like to see a lawful paladin oath, and chaos paladin oath, and one in between aswell
I agree. I hope that between now and release the oaths are pumped up in their effects. I wouldn't mind giving them a second spell at each level (potentially narrowing down the field of "universal" spells quite a bit in the process), and I still like the idea that they get something analogous to warden forms (although fewer of them, obviously).
As far as potential oath ideas (with suggested alignments, which I think are more useful than Always Lawful Good) -
- Lawful Neutral "Justicar" Gray Knight type. Can either be portrayed as a grim, unyielding hand of justice or as more of a champion of civilization type.
- Split the Blackguard up into a fiendish-type and an undeath-type (Pale Knight), and potentially into a third tyrrany-type, if that's not too much splitting.
- Chaotic Good "Paladin of Freedom" type.
- Like the Dragon Knight idea
- Maybe a Chaotic marauding type. I know that that doesn't really correspond to as many thing as we normally think of, but I think people like symmetry.