The devs never really knew what to do with druids, and this confusion carried to gamers as well. It's why the class was almost removed in 3E, and was removed in 4E. Without going too far off tangent, I think it can help a gaming group (not video gamers) to decide who or what druids get their magic from, and use that to determine their "motivation". Clerics, for example, serve gods, who get power from worship. Thus, they give clerics spells to gain more followers and spread their influence among people. When you decide who or what is powering druid spells, it becomes easier to decide what their goals are.

Good for you for roleplaying! BTW, is your name pronounced "jhusdui", or the more common "choodsway"? /obscure joke

I was speaking of real world morality, which obviously doesn't apply to the genetic morality of D&D. As for spells like smite evil, I've simply altered everything that affected chaos/law/evil/good. For example, the four versions of Protection from C/L/E/G became Protection from Outsider. And Smite C/L/E/G became Smite Outsider. Paladin powers against evil I changed to powers against undead They have Detect Undead instead of Detect Evil. In D&D rules evil characters were able to cast anti-evil spells, because they were treacherous or were used to dealing with others who were treacherous.