Possible other use for Infernal Healing

[Jacob Saltband]

Bad guy casts protection from good/circle of protection from good. Have infernal healing cast on you and now you read as evil. Should be able to bypass the protection correct?

[TriOmegaZero]

Nope. You detect as, you don't count as.

[Jacob Saltband]

Bummer.

So how do protection spells tell what alignment you are?

[darkwarriorkarg]

They don't. It's "magic". There are some rare class abilities (infiltrator inquisitor, low templar...) that cause magic effects to treat you as another alignment

[Jacob Saltband]

darkwarriorkarg wrote:

They don't. It's "magic".

Even magic follows certain rules otherwise every caster would be doing thing their own way instead of needing material components and words and gestures etc to make them work.

[wraithstrike]

Protection spells dont detect anything. They just provide protection against ______.
What you detect as is not what you count as and protection spells go by what you actually are.

[TriOmegaZero]

Jacob Saltband wrote:

So how do protection spells tell what alignment you are?

They don't have to. It's like opposite magnetic charges. No detection required.

[Ascalaphus]

Jacob Saltband wrote:

Bummer.

So how do protection spells tell what alignment you are?

Fireproof coating doesn't detect fire, it just doesn't burn.

[Voadam]

Jacob Saltband wrote:

Bad guy casts protection from good/circle of protection from good. Have infernal healing cast on you and now you read as evil. Should be able to bypass the protection correct?

It also doesn't make you no longer good for detect good, it just adds evil on top of whatever you already are.

It is similar to aligned subtype outsiders. They retain the subtype and detect as the subtype even if they change their actual alignment through free will but they are also their actual alignment and detect as their actual alignment as well.