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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 1510112" data-attributes="member: 16760">My own preference is for alignment to apply only to supernatural beings - undead, demons, and so forth.&nbsp; Humans *as a race* are not aligned;&nbsp; you can be a nasty &quot;evil&quot; person and not be tainted with Eville.It honestly never made sense to me that Holy Word would affect people who hate dogs and kids.&nbsp; (With apologies to W. C. Fields. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Now, a cleric of an Eville deity is another matter.&nbsp; Somebody who practices dark magics gained by sacrificing to demons is another matter - some of the taint can &quot;rub off&quot;.&nbsp; Likewise, a paladin is not a &quot;mere mortal&quot;, something Good has rubbed off.Detect spells and so on still work, just on the appropriate people/things.&nbsp; The wicked baron does not show up on Detect Evil... unless he's been consorting with Dark Forces (TM).This is just how I prefer to do things;&nbsp; YMMV.&nbsp; I'm considering adopting something like the d20 Modern allegiance system, though.&nbsp; Could make for some interesting variations.&nbsp; Imagine the clerics of a national deity having things like Detect Patriot and Detect National Enemy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, and I've hated the &quot;dinner plate&quot; outer-planar cosmology since 1e, but that's another rant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 1510112, member: 16760"] My own preference is for alignment to apply only to supernatural beings - undead, demons, and so forth. Humans *as a race* are not aligned; you can be a nasty "evil" person and not be tainted with Eville. It honestly never made sense to me that Holy Word would affect people who hate dogs and kids. (With apologies to W. C. Fields. :) Now, a cleric of an Eville deity is another matter. Somebody who practices dark magics gained by sacrificing to demons is another matter - some of the taint can "rub off". Likewise, a paladin is not a "mere mortal", something Good has rubbed off. Detect spells and so on still work, just on the appropriate people/things. The wicked baron does not show up on Detect Evil... unless he's been consorting with Dark Forces (TM). This is just how I prefer to do things; YMMV. I'm considering adopting something like the d20 Modern allegiance system, though. Could make for some interesting variations. Imagine the clerics of a national deity having things like Detect Patriot and Detect National Enemy. :) Oh, and I've hated the "dinner plate" outer-planar cosmology since 1e, but that's another rant. :) [/QUOTE]

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