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Message: <blockquote data-quote="~Johnny~" data-source="post: 1618923" data-attributes="member: 16493">Yeah, alignment is a problematic thing when it's portrayed in D&D's black-and-white terms, which are a bit at odds with the Eberron setting. One way to handle it, which is hinted at a bit in the rulebook, is to simply reduce the entry requirements for evil. Presumably, a lot of people identified as "good" are just passively so. So why not have the same standard for evil? Take some of the folks out of the "neutral" category who have evil leanings but haven't necessarily done evil things yet. And detect evil doesn't say what's evil about them: did they kill someone, or do they just like to kick puppies? With enough evil floating around, detect evil becomes less of a mystery-solver.Also, though this doesn't presumably apply to paladins, casing detect evil requires some incanations and hand motions. Unless you disguise what you're doing, you're clearly invading someone's privacy by casting the spell. I imagine a noble who had detect evil cast upon him by a lowly adventurer would find a way to have the spellcaster imprisoned.Anyway, there's a lot of potential stuff to discuss. In fact, Ketih has talked about this at length:For more of Keith's thoughts on alignment in Eberron, <a href="http://www.coveworld.net/eberron/rules.html#alignment" target="_blank">click here</a>.</blockquote>