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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1405341" data-attributes="member: 16362">Don't remove detect evil to the paladin, it is one of his only way to know if he is on the right track, look how hard it is to define an evil person just by observing them. Since none of us has access to spell like detect evil none of us can be sure they are right. I am pretty sure that some wizard or cleric did a PH.D on Evil somewhere. Their thesis probably study the people action and behavior and then with a detect evil or other they identify the alignement of the person. Given a big enough sample I am sure they can draw interresting conclusion. A paladin without detect evil could never be sure that a person is evil and could never act without being scared of losing his paladinhood. Without detect evil the paladin become a useless fighter always scared of killing because question like what if this orc is NG will bog down play and the game will become very boring even to the heavy role player. Not saying: your evil I kill you, no just I know this guy alignement on the DM notes is evil so I am not too scared to deal with him. Killing him without motive is still not an option, but having so much restriction should bring some benefits.Like I said before if I decide that this NPC is evil I live with the consequence if they decide to do a detect evil. Also If I decide he is evil than I know that all his action will eventually lead to a greater evil. Basically the detect evil spell should state allow you to look at the notes of the DM for the alignement of the target. The reason why we have all this discusion is because none of us has access to detect evil. Also I don't think Hitler was the most evil person on earth, I think he was a very evil persons with a lot of means. Even if I was more evil than him I could not cause greater evil than he did, because I don't have the means to kill millions of people without any body stoping me.</blockquote>

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