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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 476121" data-attributes="member: 1325">Perhaps because you haven't read the Detect Evil description properly? The guard shouldn't have registered as Evil. The King shouldn't have registered as evil. He wasn't a Cleric of an Evil God. He wasn't an Evil Outsider. He was a human worshipper of an Evil God. An Evil creature is one that has the Descriptor [Evil] in its Description, not some minor money-grabbing, PC-swindling horse merchant. Has your campaign gotten this far but the paladin doesn't realise that all minor "evil" is not to be slaughtered on sight? Just because someone wanders around, with horrible nasty thoughts in their head, torturing insects, and being a bully, do they deserve to die????This makes Detect Evil much less abused in a social environment. It should also be noted that you don't stand around for 30 seconds "detecting Evil" in the royal premises, armed to the teeth, without someone poking you in the eye, disturbing your concentration check. Such bad manners would be poorly accepted in wealthy social circles. I mean, the very nerve of that fellow. That's like insisting the President take a polygraph test on election promises...My take there is plenty of room for grey areas within the alignment scale. Alignment is only a guideline for what morals/ethics your PC has. It is only a true worry for the Paladin. Too bad so many of them are poorly played.</blockquote>