Will change to detect evil work?

[Quip]

However you do it, it shouldn't get too complicated. Too much detail empowers the spell beyond what its meant to do, and is way too much work besides. Generalizations are best, an army of orcs wouldn't need individual treatment you can just call them "violent". I thought of this reinterpretation mostly to prevent lawful-stupid paladin players from doing lawful-stupid things because "it was evil"

If the target doesn't have any special attribute, or if it simply doesn't matter, just leave out any description at all.

 

[jessemock]

Your aura = the alignment of your sponsor. Thus, you can detect as Evil even if you're a good person who happens to draw power from the Demon-God of Blah-Blah.

-- N

Sorry; I should have been more specific: gods simply don't have alignment, for us; that's why the alignment of their worshippers doesn't matter: they're beyond good and evil, a bit more Cthulhoid and, I don't mind saying, a bit more representative of actual religions, nuff said.

 

[der_kluge]

My version of detect evil only detects the [evil] subtype. Otherwise, you get nothin'.

 

[Stalker0]

Actually dnd already allows for this

THe phb outlines the effect of a spell... not how the spell looks when it occurs. So feel free to interpret someones detecting of evil anyway you want... they see an aura... they see a past bad action, etc... although if the bad action is something important to the story THEN your changing the spell