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Oh cool, a sword of detect evil (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what he's saying, the spell can't discern between the mass murderer and the lowly thief, the user of that spell should have the restraint to not jump straight murder. Not all evil beings deserve death.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Debatable. I don't really think the thing is about what people deserve. A sword like that could be used for all kinds of different things, not just some moral crusade.

Hell, I'd use it to detect so-called good people without the stabbing and avoid them. The worst kind of people are good ones. Goodness itself is a kind of evil.

People are quibbling over what is good and evil but no one considers how useful a sword like that would be. D&D already has a hard-coded alignment system with predictable behaviors associated with each alignment so implying good and evil are subjective is meaningless.

Then again, morality itself is pretty meaningless so 🤷