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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gribble" data-source="post: 3327937" data-attributes="member: 12430">For starters, I'd take a close look at the description of the Detect Evil Spell.Even when concentrating for 3 rounds, the aura of a *full grown* Scrag (6HD) would be very faint (Faint is defined as up to 10 HD). Your typical orc's evil aura (1HD) would be so faint as to almost be unnoticable. So I'd rule that even if a creature *could* have a genetically evil alignment without commiting any evil acts (such as these tadpoles must have), the aura of these scrag babies would be incredibly faint...Clearly it isn't a black and white decision... something isn't either evil or not evil, or else the spell wouldn't define degrees of evil in this way. On top of this, the Scrags alignment is *usually* chaotic evil, so clearly it is possible to redeem a Scrag from it's baser genetic nature.Hence, all the Paladin could know is that these tadpoles have incredibly weak evil auras, haven't actually comitted evil acts (they're only capable of swimming around a barrel full of water) and are from a race which can be redeemed.Doesn't sound like an honorable/good act to kill such creatures to me... sure, it might be *expedient*, because the paladin doesn't have to worry about raising them and making sure they're on the right path, but since when has the paladin's code ever been about the easy/expedient path?</blockquote>