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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 256469" data-attributes="member: 177">No, there shouldn't, for a number of very good reasons...First, remember that by the PHB and DMG, the vast majority of people are neutral.  Only folks who are willing to stick their necks out for the cause - willing to act to support the ideal - have other alignments.  People who simply want to live their lives quietly are neutral.  Screening out non-lawfuls would empty your city, and cripple trade.Next would be cost - even as a first level spell, the cost of enough detect Law or Good spells to check everybody would be prohibative.  Lots of people enter a city.  Lastly would come inefficacy - Let's say you check everyone at teh gate with Detect Law.  What do you find?  Only lawful people enter by the gate....because all the chaotics will find another route!  What, you think a chaotic is only going to come in where you want him to?  Also, it isn't as if only having lawful people in town would actually stop trouble.  Lawful doesn't mean placid.  A paladin will quite certainly start trouble if he sees Evil afoot.  Now, instead of simple thuggery, you've got people causing trouble over things they strongly believe in.  Yeah, that'll be a gain <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, it's expensive, probably won't work, and will cripple your economy if it does.  Doesn't sound like a very good option to me.</blockquote>

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