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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 5617357" data-attributes="member: 52548">Well, when was the last time that a military/religious officer interrogated one of his fellow officer/soldier/priest etc. without a good reason, and outside the limits of a defined procedure?In my campaign spells and spell-like effects like Detect Evil/good/etc. are seen as a part of such procedure, and, lato sensu, just like the polygraph.According to Wikipedia "no defendant or witness can be forced to undergo the (polygraph) test" in the USA. From where I come from the polygraph can't be used at all by anyone in any case, unless you voluntarily undergo it, and it has no legal validity even in that case. Besides, in my legal system we adhere to the "Nemo tenetur se detegere" principle (that is not the right to the silence, as Wikipedia implies translating from other languages).By that principle a Paladin could never use his detect evil ability so freely. And even in that case he couldn't act basing his conduct on that spell, especially considering that the spell can be foiled.Besides that, in the unlikely event that a Paladin uses his spell like ability on a fellow member of the church (which means that he had some suspects in the first place) we aren't talking about detect/*thump* paladins. <img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/new/clear_new.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />A cunny evil member of the Church could be advised to change his route, giving him time to take what it needs to hide his true intentions and scopes.</blockquote>

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