New UA Paladin Sacred Oaths are Oath of Conquest and the Oath of Treachery

I'm disappointed about no Oath of Liberty, but I'll take a look at what they are bringing, when they get around to getting the page to work.

 

[Staffan]

I disapprove of the Oath of Treachery as a matter of principle.

The core of the 5e paladin is a warrior so devoted to an ideal that the ideal empowers him or her with supernatural powers. In light of that, an oath that "lacks any substance" makes no sense. Oath of Conquest is better in that regard - it gives you a direction and compels you to act in a certain way, even if that way isn't very nice.

In the words of Walter Sobchak: "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos!"

Someone without a firm moral ground on which to stand should not be able to be a paladin. There are certainly other avenues of power to explore, such as that of an Eldritch Knight, or a Warlock of the Blade, but they should not get to be paladins.