No Evil Aura on Level 5 or Lower

[BrittanyPanthas]

The problem to me with this is that it gives Paladins out there, especially low level ones just levelling up, an excuse to quest with evil PCs and not use their common sense.

The man says he worships Bane, calls out to the Black Hand in battle, but he doesn't show up on my supernatural sense?  Well if he's good enough for my god, he's good enough for me!

I can see situations like that arising frequently.

Paladins don't have it that hard when it comes to questing.  Sure on occasion you have to decline a quest because someone evil is running it, or someone evil is around, but usually this leads to Paladins creating trusted circles of friends and allies.  Once that's formed, a Paladin has little trouble questing up.

Paladins should not be calling people out as evil anyhow in public, not unless they have some sort of proof to back it up.  Either through some deficiency of morals, or some crime the person has actually committed.  Just proclaiming to a quest group that the person is 'tainted' or some other nonsense should not be done without evidence to back it up.  A well played Paladin in my eyes will simply find some polite excuse to duck out under those circumstances.

[Staring Death]

The problem to me with this is that it gives Paladins out there, especially low level ones just levelling up, an excuse to quest with evil PCs and not use their common sense.

The man says he worships Bane, calls out to the Black Hand in battle, but he doesn't show up on my supernatural sense?  Well if he's good enough for my god, he's good enough for me!

I can see situations like that arising frequently.

I do not see this as an issue, however. Evil pinging on the radar doesn't stop a paladin from questing with him, nor does it grant him an automatic shift toward chaos or evil. The DM does. If the DM witnessed the guy saying he's a Banite with the paladin, it's just the same as the paladin questing with evil, because ultimately, it's the DM that shifts alignment.

[Semli]

I'm not a big fan of DE. If it were up to me, I would remove it. Paladins still have to battle evil, but its more up to them to investigate and pursue it through actual conflict building and interaction rather than an arbitrary system.