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RE: Out of Game / Leaving Thread
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RE: Detect Evil: Should it return?
Nope. Leave it at it is.
No idea if it's canon or what; but it's anti-roleplay. People with evil alignments should be doing evil things. Players at odds with that should be doing all they can to keep a finger on the pulse of the underworld to know what's going on. A magical button that tells you someone is deceiving you takes all the fun away.
Using a personal example, Kreswell is never entrusted with the Staff of Ilmater if the Paladin that gave it to him has detect evil. That entire plot is undone not with roleplay but with a quick right-click function key.
I find it far more suffocating for storytelling than beneficial.
With the decreasing playerbase comparitive to five/ten years ago, players of opposite alignments need to rub shoulders with each other otherwise they're ostracised. A Paladin using his radar to cherry pick those at odds with his alignment and isolating them will be disastrous.