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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CalrinAlshaw" data-source="post: 1551716" data-attributes="member: 14282">Just so some of you know, that whole description of Swordpoint the Paladin city of "good" bears a lot of resemblence to spanish inquisition...just minus the torture, doesn't make it any better. Thats what seperates good from evil, the willingness to sacrifice time/energy or more to help your fellow man succeed and also learn the ways that you follow.People keep bringing up this whole "if you get attacked you have the right bla bla" That wasn't the question asked in the first post, the question, was, does a paladin have the RIGHT to SMITE something based SOLELY on a Detect Evil. Personally, I think it'd be great to have a paladin do that, then find out it's some cousin on their way from somewhere and they had aura-altering magic up to hide their true alignment. (That would then go under the "unwillingly" committed evil act, since he thought it was for good.) And watch what happens when he removes that face-covering and sees a loved relative who just joined the paladin order and is returning from a solo-recon type mission.One thing people forget, is that paladins are WISE. They should use that wisdom, it shouldn't just be a dice-rolling bonus. If a paladin does unwise stuff, a DM should lower their wisdom due to player idiocy. Wisdom entails thinking things through (Morality, philosophy, furthering their gods/knightly order/nation/organizations goals, and making sure what they do is in those best interests.) Just detecting evil on strangers then "CHHAAARGE" is extremely unwise and against the Lawful AND Good natures of a paladin.Calrin Alshaw</blockquote>

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