For those who have tossed alignment

[seasong]

In Theralis, such spells simply don't exist. In some cases, Protection from Evil has been renamed Protection from Outsiders, but that's about it. Also, priest-types have access to spells which affect "opposing religions" rather than a particular alignment.

In Diandi, the setting I'm working on, there was a great, celestial war long ago. The losers (and anyone who works for them) takes on the Evil alignment descriptor - this has nothing to do with morality or ethics, it's just that they lost the battle for reality. Everything else shows up as Good, even if they're really pretty bad.

 

[Cedric]

I view alignments the same way I view the bus jumping the gap in Speed. If I think about it too much, it bugs me. So I don't think about it too much.

Cedric

 

[Voadam]

One way to do it is to keep all the descriptors but eliminate the underlying alignment. There fore protection from evil has special effects against creatures with the evil descriptor but not evil characters. The same with paladin's smite. Detect evil still detects evil spells, outsiders with the evil descriptor, and undead.

All demons have the evil descriptor whether they are reformed or not.

Paladins restrictions against evil actions are removed, although they are kept as a vow.

Not that much needs to change, paladins can really do evil in the name of good, which changes their feel to more of a witch hunter class.