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<blockquote data-quote="Vurt" data-source="post: 1048946" data-attributes="member: 1547">While the rules would seem to indicate you could use Bless as a bad-guy detector, I am unsure whether this constitutes a brilliantly creative use of spells or an unbalancing and unintended loophole.&nbsp; The latter I would simply plug up with Rule 0, of course.Rather than asking the question, &quot;what is an ally?&quot;, maybe it would be more useful to ask instead &quot;who chooses who is made an ally?&quot;&nbsp; Clearly not the caster, or unknown creatures in the area of effect wouldn't be affected.&nbsp; Perhaps the caster's deity who granted the Bless?&nbsp; You'd think they of all beings would get it right, but maybe they'd also be mistaken from time to time.&nbsp; Is there an arcane spell that also affects allies in this manner?For the time being, here's my simple (non)definition of ally:Ally - left to the DM as an exercise.-- Vurt</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vurt, post: 1048946, member: 1547"] While the rules would seem to indicate you could use [i]Bless[/i] as a bad-guy detector, I am unsure whether this constitutes a brilliantly creative use of spells or an unbalancing and unintended loophole. The latter I would simply plug up with Rule 0, of course. Rather than asking the question, "what is an ally?", maybe it would be more useful to ask instead "who chooses who is made an ally?" Clearly not the caster, or unknown creatures in the area of effect wouldn't be affected. Perhaps the caster's deity who granted the [i]Bless[/i]? You'd think they of all beings would get it right, but maybe they'd also be mistaken from time to time. Is there an arcane spell that also affects allies in this manner? For the time being, here's my simple (non)definition of ally: Ally - left to the DM as an exercise. -- Vurt [/QUOTE]

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