Is Smite Evil working correctly?

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Hello,

The desciption in the manual for the paladin ability Smite Evil states:

Once per day, a paladin of 2nd level or higher may attempt to smite evil with one normal melee attack. He adds his Charisma modifier (if positive) to his attack roll and deals 1 extra point of damage per level.

I was trying out different character builds and notices a possible bug. I used Smite Evil with a level 15 single-class paladin. The charisma bonus of +5 has been added correctly to the attack roll. But I only did 7 damage against a target with no damage reduction at all. Shouldn't I be doing at least weapon damage +15 because of the 15 paladin levels?
If this is not working correctly or even working as intended Smite Evil seems to be really underwhelming.

If this is indeed a bug would it be possible to correct this spell with NearInfinity? I looked through the spell list and did find it, although I did not understand how effects are applied to the spell.

Thanks for your help

 

I always thought it was bugged too, but it is also possible that the target you attacked was not flagged as evil (possibly in error).
Does it show up as evil with the Detect Evil ability?
I know there were numerous errors in the BG games with enemy alignment such that by the time I got to playing IWD2 I stopped using the ability/spell unless I had a good reason to do so.