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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radmod" data-source="post: 5278749" data-attributes="member: 93008">I know him well enough to know his answers:"Fact," he would scoff. "That's your interpretation. Just because you say it's fact, doesn't make it so." (even though, probably 99.99% of us agree with you)"The spell makes it clear that you detect evil auras. Show me in the rules where it says a person of evil alignment gives off an evil aura. Only for people like evil clerics does it say they have an aura of evil.""But wait," you might say, "why does the table have evil creatures.""Because," he would respond, "it's a catch-all. The writers knew they couldn't cover every creature, or potential creature. So, there are creatures who are neither undead, outsiders, clerics, nor items/spells that have given themselves over to evil and would show up as such. Like the blackguard, or a non-cleric PC who is in service to an evil deity and is tainted with an evil aura."See, you really can't say it's a fact."Show me," he would respond, "where it says 'alignment' in the spell. Oh, look," he might add, "why do they specifically say alignment when talking about good clerics but never say the word elsewhere."BTW, just a nitpicky point, but your link was to the d20SRD, not SRD. Those are two different systems, technically. Well, most DMs (myself included) I've seen rule intent as toward the caster/detector, or an overtly evil act (like murder). Small evil acts, like cheating at cards or on your wife, they ignore.Hence the "Non-RAW" tag.Speaking of which, I forgot a big one:Non-RAW:Argument 6: "I pretty much limit it to really evil creatures because I like my PC's to roleplay what they want. Having DE go off all the time limits their abilities to do 'stuff'."</blockquote>

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