[Kael]

Oh, I should add that I also completely agree with Nightson. My post was made under the assumption that the campaign would be primarily by-the-book 3.5, and in such a case that's the way I do it.

I prefer to muddle with/do away with the alignment system wherever possible, though, and I love settings and custom rules for Paladins of alignments other than Lawful Good.

One thing I like to do in settings where I want to keep (mostly) objective morality, but keep the difficult decision-making aspect of subjective morality is to rule that beings native to the Prime Material Plane are immune/unreadable/unaffected by any alignment-based magic, including detects, circles, etc. That way, alignment and morality are still absolute, but your Paladin can't go into town, throw down a Detect Evil and start slaying people right and left and be perfectly right in doing so.