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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1837501" data-attributes="member: 5122">I both agree and disagree with ElectricDragon.I agree that detect evil is clearly the most useful of the "detect alignment aura" spells.  I agree that it should be higher level than the other spells.  (Honestly, when's the last time anyone used detect law?)  However, I don't think detect evil -- including its function as an undead detector -- is powerful enough to be a second-level spell.  According, I think it should remain first-level, and the other spells should be dropped to 0-level.  (I also think detect undead should be dropped to 0-level.)However, I actually don't have a problem with detect evil detecting undead.  In fact, assuming it is rationalized properly, I kinda like the idea.  (My problem with detect evil and undead is with the ridiculous muddled way they went about it, not with the idea in general.  I highly dislike the fact that detect evil detects non-evil clerics, but that's a different discussion, and even that can be rationalized.)The wrong way to go about it: Assigning Evil alignment to mindless undead creatures.  Just plain stupid, and contrary to the alignment rules.The right way to go about it:  Simply assign undead the "(evil)" subtype.  Say that animate dead (or whatever animus is behind a given undead creature) warps negative energy to the extent that it imposes a permanent lingering evil on the animated or created or spawned creature, similar to the unsheddable evil of demons and devils.  (Note that I'm not saying negative energy is itself evil; thus my use of the word "warp.")</blockquote>

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