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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3259333" data-attributes="member: 198">I'm with the people who go with the approach that a paladin who attacks everyone who detects as evil will not only have legal issues but quickly become a non-paladin. Detect Evil as written is horribly imprecise, and I think that's exactly how it should be. The LN Clr11 of a LE deity detects as overwhelmingly evil, while a mass murdering CE Ftr10 would detect as faintly evil, less so than the Com11 innkeeper who steals from people and beats his wife. And then there's the whole question of how ubiquitous evil is in society. Being a cynical so-and-so, about 20% of human society is evil in my game, which is about the same proportion as good. So a paladin detecting evil in the marketplace, for example, picks up dozens of evil auras.IMNSHO, running Detect Evil exactly as written leads to a very sigificant amount of moral ambiguity in the game, rather than the black-&amp;-white morality people often talk about D&amp;D as having. It is when people house-rule Detect Evil to be more specific and precise that things become more simplistic and &quot;Detect and Smite&quot; becomes a valid option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 3259333, member: 198"] I'm with the people who go with the approach that a paladin who attacks everyone who detects as evil will not only have legal issues but quickly become a non-paladin. Detect Evil as written is horribly imprecise, and I think that's exactly how it should be. The LN Clr11 of a LE deity detects as overwhelmingly evil, while a mass murdering CE Ftr10 would detect as faintly evil, less so than the Com11 innkeeper who steals from people and beats his wife. And then there's the whole question of how ubiquitous evil is in society. Being a cynical so-and-so, about 20% of human society is evil in my game, which is about the same proportion as good. So a paladin detecting evil in the marketplace, for example, picks up dozens of evil auras. IMNSHO, running Detect Evil exactly as written leads to a very sigificant amount of moral ambiguity in the game, rather than the black-&-white morality people often talk about D&D as having. It is when people house-rule Detect Evil to be more specific and precise that things become more simplistic and "Detect and Smite" becomes a valid option. [/QUOTE]

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