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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 2975872" data-attributes="member: 40379">IMHO I believe that having the paladin act as judge and jury relying on the deity granted power of detect evil has a much stronger Mediaeval feel than having the paladin learning "to recogize true evil".  I like running campaigns with a Mediaeval European morality and ethics.  But it appears that I'm in the minority at least here at ENworld.  I'm OK with that.  Other DMs are free to run their games as they choose.  I just personally don't like modern campaigns masquerading as Mediaeval or Ancient.  Similarly I can't stand Hercules/Xena and other shows in that vein.Unfortunately this takes us closer to the "evil orc babies" debate rather than whether or not it is wrong for NPCs to block detection spells.  I believe that NPCs will always use the tools at their disposal.  If they think that they will be exposed to a detect evil spell, believe that it will have a detrimental impact to them, and they are willing to spend the money then by all means let them do it.  But make sure that the player knows that such obfuscation can happen.  Otherwise they'll feel cheated.My 2 farthings…</blockquote>