Paladin in town casts detect evil

Stop playing DnD with idiots.

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>Post setting advice thread 14 replies, thread began 18 hours ago
>Post paladin wat do thread, 11 replies, 12 posters, 7 minutes since the start of the thread.

Maybe your setting is shit and nobody wanted to help?

Smite DM

Here. Apply to butt.

I've made a ton of threads like the first one you mentioned, pretty much always just die off immediately. Then once I asked one question about SoB, and suddenly it had several hundred replies within the hour and I got a three day ban for trolling. My only post in that thread was the OP.

That was my most successful thread ever, which is kind of sad. Only other time something like this happened was when I accidently crashed /k/lassphoto thread with no survivors.

Smite and cleave. I'm a Gray Guard, I don't have to give a fuck.

I use Smite Evil on the DM

I tell the mother that I would like to be her midwife because my god demands it. Then use Smite evil on the baby, seeing as Smite evil just tickles those of neutral or good alignment.

Obviously, the correct solution is a direct injection of DIVINE JUSTICE to counteract the baby's malicious influence.
Paladin/Bard is best Paladin.

I disallow Paladins so...

You do know that fucking a pregnant woman can result in the termination of the fetus?

What's the other thread?

I remember this from when I played fate/stay night.

Probably deleted by now.

FUCK THE MOTHER
USE YOUR +5 HOLY PALADIN DICK TO PUNCTURE HER WOMB
SMITE THE EVIL BABY WITH YOUR +5 HOLY PALADIN DICK

lol wut?

He's an militant atheist.

>pings on one specific individual

Has there ever been an edition of D&D where 'detect evil' worked like that?

>Has there ever been an edition of D&D where 'detect evil' worked like that?
Pretty much all of them because DM fiat has always been a thing.

>just houserule it brah it's just a game rule zero yo

Great contribution, but has there ever been an edition of D&D where the rule description for 'detect evil' worked like that?

Then it has been judged as irredeemable, and its destruction was good and right. The divine power remaining in her shall shield her from harm.
All that's left is to bestow a more righteous child upon her to reward her obedience.

3.5 at least lets you concentrate for longer to get more precise readings.

IIRC the closest thing to this situation would be that the mother would ping as evil because she is carying somethng evil.

Here is what I do, op.
>Walk out.
>Play D6 fantasy (open or Mini Six hack) with my good friends.
>never look back.

>D6 fantasy and every other game that's not D&D no longer exists
What now fuckboi?

Oh forgot a few steps
>poop on the dm's bed.
>take his cat to the violin factory.
>make his grandma cry .
And worst of all..
> take his coasters and put glasses of wate on his tables.

Cast detect evil on other pregnant women with the same level of focus to have large sample. If all unborn babies ping as evil, pray to my god to file a bug report.

Else, monitor the pregnant women, ask for her cooperation, confine her until birth if reasonably possible while seeing to her well being (getting confined for 9 months max because you have a possible demon in your uterus isn't such a bad thing).

Once evil baby is born, ping it again and if it's still evil, smite/redeem/jail/exorcise as appropriate.

If the DM is still pushing the "risk of world ending vs life of a single woman" angle at this point, I will tell him : "you know, if you wanted to run dark heresy so badly, you could have just told us"

What did you post?

Play a with a dm who doesn't force the paladin into dumb situations.
Ain't nothing wrong with D&D just DM hate paladins for some reason or another.

...Tell the mother and have her raise the fuckin' kid right. It's an infant with a lot of growing up to do and Evil isn't a disease.

Being evil alone isn't a crime, and as a fetus it clearly hasn't done anything else wrong, so just ignore the situation completely.

>take his coasters and put glasses of water on his tables.

Too fucking far user! what the fuck?

That's not how detect evil works in any edition of D&D that matters.

>pray to my god to file a bug report

>fucking up a good wooden table
I would kill you like a cheap whore who saw too much at a mob house.

>Implying there are editions of D&D that matter

Better than
>Okay paladin. You think the east side of he city is evil. What now?

>the unborn child is evil
The fuck did it do, strangle its twin with the umbilical cord?

Being evil isn't a crime, it's an inclination. You can't jail or kill people for being sociopaths, you can only punish them if they perform evil acts. There are plenty of law-abiding citizens in D&D who are Evil, and they should not be persecuted just because they'd like to butcher their neighbours with a carving knife for beating them in a Town's Largest Pumpkin competition.

In certain countries you can forcibly hospitalise sociopaths.

A country that does not respect the freedom of those who do not harm others deserves all the sociopaths it gets.

Except that's not how it works either.
For something to actually be strong enough to give an evil aura it has to possess divine power or be supernatural.
So even if his cone says "There's evil over there!" He knows to be wary for something of big power and danger.

If you're not an idiot (ie. placing a lot of weight directly on the belly), thatis extremely unlikely. To use an analogue, if the baby is inside the house, you driving your car into the garage isn't going to hurt it, no matter how badly you park it (unless you somehow drive your car through the garage wall and right into the room the baby is in, but in that case something has gone phenomenally wrong, and your house is really shittily built too).

I agree with . Any culture that locks people away because they MIGHT be dangerous, but whom have made no conspiracy to commit a crime, is infringing upon the basic rights and freedoms all men and women should possess. In the context of OP's statement, any society that would kill or jail Evil individuals would itself be Evil, likely Lawful Evil as it is abusing the law to punish non-criminals.

Pretty much. To a Paladin, detecting Evil on a non-supernatural person is probably like tasting a grain of dirt on your tongue, unpleasant but not much more than that. Detecting Evil on, say, a mid-level Demon or minor evil magical item would be like having your head dunked in a pool of mud. For a place to be Evil enough for a paladin to clearly sense that quality, it would have to be something like a ritual murder site or an altar to a profane god, something so dark that its presence is a stain upon the very land itself.

Definitely the best solution

Different user, but you are missing the point
Obvious shitposting bait thread is getting attention like it is summer. And it keeps going all the year round, making "summer" a meaningless meme.
It just shows how bad Veeky Forums is for falling for such bullshit and that's depressing on the long run.

Well, if the mother is a Drow, that's very likely. Apparently it's a common enough occurrence to them that "orgasm caused by fetuses murdering each other in your womb" has a specific word in Drow language, and is also the main reason they bother getting pregnant.

>baby detects as evil
well babies are naturally evil so no problem there

So killing a mad psychopath planning mass murder is wrong because he hasn't done it yet? You do know that only truly evil beings "ping" as evil on a detect evil casting.

and have it right.

Aside from the fact Detect Evil does not work that way, this is textbook shit GMing. The whole scenario reeks of some unwinnable "lel you fall" scenario. Even if that's not the case, at it's best is a cringey attempt at making the game DARK and MATURE. If any GM tried this on me, I'd roll my eyes and tell him if an unborn child is pinging evil there's probably something much worse going on which demands my attention. I'm not killing a pregnant woman just because the GM is a retard.

Also, half the replies in this thread and most others are absolute shit. What the fuck is going on.

So if you know someone suffers from vivid and frightening hallucinations, you'd wait for him to hurt himself or someone else before you quarantine him?

Someone is walking around with a deadly and contagious disease, you're going to wait until he infects someone before you put him in the hospital?

The freedom of people to live safe from the threat of someone who is ill and has the potential to harm them is more important than the freedom of the sick person to do as he pleases. That goes for all kinds of sick people, from psychopaths to contagions.

Ask the GM to stop jerking off under the table. This whole "paladin fall dilemma" fetish he has developed as of late is neither good nor appreciated by anyone else.

No fetus will defeat us! I put on my gauntlet, cast divine sacrifice, and smite that unborn heathen! Then lay on hands the mother so there's no hard feelings

There is no fetish like that in existence.

I'm masturbating to it right now.

No. You're not.

I have a Cleric perform an Exorcism and/or and augry. Then I put the mother in a convent and have the clerics and Nuns deal with her.

I then pick up my character sheet, grab my dice, thank the DM and guys for a game, and walk out and never return.

I then just wait and try to look for a nonfaggot group all over again

This. Paladins are not robots and they don't fall over such trivial shit, does OP think that no paladin has ever had to make a decision in the history of the universe before your paladin gets confronted with evil baby wat do?

In addition half of the fucking population probably pings at least mildly evil in D&D, you think they kill literally everyone designated evil that they meet?

First you have to beat my 51 AC, paladinfag.

Nice to know you have no resolve or balls. Walking out of a game because you don't like one thing is as immature as a race car driver quitting the race because the flag isn't checkered black and white, but blue and red.

Detect evil doesn't ping until the create has 5HD or is an evil outsider. Something is VERY WRONG here if an unborn baby has 5HD.

You should relearn how to read properly.

What if you're playing in a setting where all children are born evil until they're baptized or go through some other ritual?
Children are naturally evil and selfish little cunts until they gain the cognitive ability to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them and fulfilling their needs.
Some people never learn this.

Plot twist, the mother is a 15 foot long centipede.

The hell kind of town is this?

That's probably what OP is going for, but shitposting has diverted attention away from this fact. Maybe the woman was tricked into fucking asmodeus or something.

>tricked
>implying

20 000 golds on a NPC?
never not even if ti is plot relevant!

...

Remove Disease

>Either the aura is a result of supernatural influences and not moral choices, at which point the child may simply be uplifted by its mother's good nature, or something is actively attempting to force the paladin's hand into unwittingly causing more suffering than is necessary, such as a ploy by a sinister force outside of the immediate description of the scene.
>There is nothing to be done until the child is born but to research the scenario. If the child is a tiefling or some similar tainted being, it is in the hands it must be in to become a force of good. Ensure the mother knows this. If it is possessed or some other evil is afoot, then this evil must be routed, not the child itself.
>Aborting it is only an option should the mortal soul already be gone and birthing it would kill the mother. If it can be birthed and then purged, all the better.
>Once evil baby is born, ping it again and if it's still evil, smite/redeem/jail/exorcise as appropriate.

These are reasonable. What responsibility does a true paladin have but to inspire hope? Hope is the most potent weapon available.

Handled in that d20 splatbook by Grim

Does remove disease eliminate parasites?

That's not how detect evil works.

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Fetuses are not biologically considered parasites or diseases you stupid fuck. Only tumblrites, redditors, and Bill Nye (who is explicitly not a Biologist ) do.

Don't understand why so many people misinterpret Detect Evil. It's just meant to be a sort of spidey sense which lets the Paladin know if there's bad mojo around.

So the baby is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead?

Et tu, Boobaloo?

Depends on which Order the paladin belongs to. Some Orders will prioritize the protection of the innocent other will prioritize the destruction of evil. In any case it should be very easy for the paladin to decide what he has to do.

If the paladin does not belong to an Order he has his/her own ethos and rules he has to follow which again will make his decision very easy.

Aren't celestials Good-aligned?

Reminder /threading your own post is like high-fiving yourself

Because despite the fact that everyone likes to say "no, not us." the truth is any large group of people has at least 75% of them not actually knowing what they're talking about, but just regurgitating information they heard from others.

In the newest edition of D&D, Paladins no longer have "detect evil" rather they can detect the supernatural.

Fair enough, but OP explicitly said "Detect Evil" so I guess we can assume they're not playing 5e.

That's because that user said it wrong.
In 5e it is now "Detect Evil and Good" which doesn't actually detect if something is evil or good, just highlights supernatural things.

Never Compromise

Best Paladin.

Jail the baby?

BABYJAIL!!!

You're sworn to protect good, and the mother is good, meaning harming the evil would directly cause the good you're trying to protect become irrelevant and thusly, you become a monster in the act.

>those who hunt monsters should take care, lest they become one

Or, you know, there could actually be some sort of a plot where the unborn baby is, ya know, A DEMON...USING THE MOTHER AS A CONDUIT TO BE BIRTHED INTO THE MATERIAL REALM.

I really hate this thoughtless, immature excuse:
>at it's best is a cringey attempt at making the game DARK and MATURE