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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8046784" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Again, this leads to either boring plots, or &quot;tyrannical&quot; systems. For example, let us enchant this stone, using your magic mouth example, to say &quot;Execute Me!&quot; whenever it is held by an evil person. Now, you have a guy who is on trial. Doesn't matter for what. Make him hold the stone. If it registers his as evil? Kill him. Or put him in prison for the rest of his life. Or chain gang for forced labor.He is evil, so he obviously committed some crime, or would commit a crime. We know, objectively, that he is evil. There is no debate to be had, no argument he can make. He is evil, and since alignment is based off actions, he has likely broken the laws. And all of this, every bit of it, also ignores a single spell that still exists, and every powerful evil being in the universe would want to learn. Nystul's Magic Aura.Which I have used on multiple occasions. And renders all of these systems horrifically exploitable by a bad guy with a single brain cell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8046784, member: 6801228"] Again, this leads to either boring plots, or "tyrannical" systems. For example, let us enchant this stone, using your magic mouth example, to say "Execute Me!" whenever it is held by an evil person. Now, you have a guy who is on trial. Doesn't matter for what. Make him hold the stone. If it registers his as evil? Kill him. Or put him in prison for the rest of his life. Or chain gang for forced labor. He is evil, so he obviously committed some crime, or would commit a crime. We know, objectively, that he is evil. There is no debate to be had, no argument he can make. He is evil, and since alignment is based off actions, he has likely broken the laws. And all of this, every bit of it, also ignores a single spell that still exists, and every powerful evil being in the universe would want to learn. Nystul's Magic Aura. Which I have used on multiple occasions. And renders all of these systems horrifically exploitable by a bad guy with a single brain cell. [/QUOTE]

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