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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 4936416" data-attributes="member: 5202">Are you going to trust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a newb? <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So if someone is evil, but has never really acted on it....they're not a nice person, but never killed anyone in cold blood or the various things Evil usually does, if they were sitting in the bar pondering how nice it would be to kill the owner and about 10 other people and a Paladin walks in and Detects Evil, should this man show up?  If he should then go ahead and smite the whole world.  Maybe he's LE and lives in an area w/a similar ruler so he has always fit in well.  Of course the better question is, why is the Paladin just running around Detecting Evil everywhere he goes?  That was always one of the powers that was open to some of the largest abuse in D&D and I for one am happy to see it gone.  If PF has made it so it only produces results on higher level beings cool.  I've never had a problem with something of higher level producing a stronger aura due to more personal power.  If a level 1 demon from the abyss is on one side of the room and a level 20 demon is across the otehr side of the room, maybe they should both show up due to both being from the abyss, but the L20 should throb and pulse inside your skull with their level of evil.  You should be basing your "who should be smited" from probably using your high charisma to get some details from people and find out that Farmer McGee is suspected of blackmailing his fellow farmers with threats on their children.  a bit of leaning on him after produces results.  Not "Is anyone in here Evil so I can kill them?"</blockquote>

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