Watcher is really nice, and relevant to the story we are caught in too, but it might be hard to play with considering the events of this first act. Accepting tadpole powers, allowing the absolute cultists to continue or joining them, accepting help from Ethel, or Omeluum, all these would immediately go against the tenets of your oath.
I think that makes the Watcher experience better. You would HAVE to have a non-tadpole use gameplay. No freeing Shadowheart in the beginning, no Aunt Ethel, no using the powers of the absolute. etc
Oath of the Watchers should start with a broken oath. They failed Vigilance.
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That would be an interesting way to allow Oath breaker Paladins to start out in Character creation. You can start out as an oathbreaker but if you wanna redeem yourself, then you go straight to Watchers, via new oath or that was your original.
