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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5505241" data-attributes="member: 6957">But if Pally Bob goes and does a Detect Evil then they know that either Alice ain't evil or has a means to disguise her evil.In the example that you gave Pally Bob the Idiot would likely be stretched, right quick. She was a local, he wasn't. On the other hand, if he can show that she was a vampire, and there had been an unexplained epidemic of anemia in the town.... (More often both 'vampires' and their 'victims' suffered from consumptive tuberculosis - a surprising number of corpses were exhumed and executed in Rhode Island during one outbreak of TB...). Bob will be tried in the court of public opinion as well as the courts magistrate.Then again, I liked Matheson's  I am Legend (the book, not any of the movies) where the protagonist is considered the monster at the end of the story - striking during the day when the vamps are helpless, and murdering them in their sleep. He had become legend.Alignments are only as confining as the setting, the players, and the DM allows them to be. But murder of someone you know to be one of the good guys... the Pally's god/ess might have something to say about that.For my homebrew vampires are monsters, just as Dr, Harold Shipman was a monster. They were monsters before they became vampires, and willingly chose their path. (Also not RAW for D&D.)  For Eberron, I would have a lot more leeway. Heck, one of the big baddies is a vampire pushing for peace - not because he is good (he ain't) but because war hurts his plans..... (Yeah, I like Eberron....)In a Vampire LARP I played a vampire with True Faith. (A Nos, but also a nice guy, in life he was a scumbag.) In other games vamps would never have this. In a game RAW must give way to setting, at least in its minor aspects.And I agree with the comment that a player going by the MM is metagaming, and needs to be hit upside the head with a clue bat.The Auld Grump, who once had a party hanged for murdering an orc....</blockquote>

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