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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5571486" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Look at the rules for Detect spells and powers.The caster/user has to concentrate for 3 rounds.Round 1: They know if there is any Evil/Good/Law/Chaos/Magic/Whatever within range (Effect is a cone.)Round 2: The general sense will begin to focus into distinct sources.&nbsp; User can get an idea of how many sources are in range.Round 3: Now you can identify individual sources.Also remember that in any crowd there will be a variety of alignments.&nbsp; Running Detect Evil all the time will show that about 10% of the &quot;good&quot; races are still Evil, about 30% of Humans in most towns, and 70%+ of the &quot;Evil&quot; races.Just because someone's not a nice guy, or is in a really foul mood at the moment, shouldn't do any more for the Paladin than tell him, &quot;I have a lot of work to do here&quot;.&nbsp; He has to deal with a noble who's Lawful Evil?&nbsp; It doesn't mean that the man is up to no good right now, or has any ill will towards the Paladin, his friends or his cause.&nbsp; The man might be a right bastard in the way he deals with people, but still be the only one for the job, and actually may be doing good in the current venture.So throw a bunch of &quot;false positives&quot; at him in social situations, and make it clear that &quot;Detect Evil&quot; isn't at all the same as &quot;Detect Enemy&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 5571486, member: 6669384"] Look at the rules for Detect spells and powers. The caster/user has to concentrate for 3 rounds. Round 1: They know if there is any Evil/Good/Law/Chaos/Magic/Whatever within range (Effect is a cone.) Round 2: The general sense will begin to focus into distinct sources. User can get an idea of how many sources are in range. Round 3: Now you can identify individual sources. Also remember that in any crowd there will be a variety of alignments. Running Detect Evil all the time will show that about 10% of the "good" races are still Evil, about 30% of Humans in most towns, and 70%+ of the "Evil" races. Just because someone's not a nice guy, or is in a really foul mood at the moment, shouldn't do any more for the Paladin than tell him, "I have a lot of work to do here". He has to deal with a noble who's Lawful Evil? It doesn't mean that the man is up to no good right now, or has any ill will towards the Paladin, his friends or his cause. The man might be a right bastard in the way he deals with people, but still be the only one for the job, and actually may be doing good in the current venture. So throw a bunch of "false positives" at him in social situations, and make it clear that "Detect Evil" isn't at all the same as "Detect Enemy". [/QUOTE]

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