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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 483603" data-attributes="member: 3146">Re: Corruption in a LG Church.I think Sepulchrave's Lady Despina's Virtue/the Heretic of the Wyre/ The Rape of Mourne story hour threads do an excellent job of demonstrating how it is possible to work corruption into the alignment system of D&D.Furthermore, just because you can detect "Good" or "Law" doesn't mean that there is absolute agreement on what you are detecting--or for that matter what is the important thing to be detected. An organization serving an LG god could easily have his followers decide that Law was the key part of his personality and that members of the hierarchy had to be lawful but that good was an optional part--pure but impractical. In that case, they would probably think of Detect Law as detecting an adherance to standards and order--in other words detecting the important things that the god stood for. Detect Good would be seen as detecting purity or inflexibility. These could easily be seen as non-essential qualities.In this case, detect chaos and detect evil would probably be seen as redundant methods of detecting impurity. (Chaos, evil, what's the difference?) There might well be theological debates about what the difference between chaos and evil was and why a person might not detect as impure even though they rejected order.</blockquote>