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Create Undead Help: will a created ghoul attack an evil lich that created it???
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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5634326" data-attributes="member: 78958"><p style="text-align: left">Mindless undead don't necessarily attack all in sight. In fact, if given no orders by a competent "programmer" (i.e. by somebody with the ability to control mindless undead through Rebuking, spells etc.), I always imagined mindless undead to just remain the way they are indefinitely. I'd play them as automatons animated by a power source (negative energy) and controlled by a simple "BIOS" (programmed by the spell/ability that created them). The "BIOS" allows them to understand and follow orders given by a competent "programmer". That's all. They have no desires, not even the desire to attack the living, feed, preserve their own existence or what-have-you.</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">So if a Necropolitan spellcaster casts Animate Dead on a corpse, all that nets him is a slightly less dead corpse, with the <em>potential </em>to shuffle around and obey simple orders - <em>if </em>the spellcaster in question also knows how to "program" his creation.</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">However, this is my personal interpretation, there's no rules text to cover this question. You're free to interpret it "mindless Undead = raging killing machine unless otherwise ordered".</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">Also, why would an intelligent undead creature not attack another undead creature? There's no Undead Covenant or anything like that. They're just a creature type. Animals eat other animals, humanoids kill, rape, exploit and on occasion diss other humanoids, evil outsiders kill evil outsiders in the Blood War... why wouldn't an undead creature kill another undead creature, if only to eat it? Ghouls <em>do </em>eat the flesh of the dead, after all... not necessarily the flesh of a Lich powerful enough to <em>create </em>them, though!</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5634326, member: 78958"] [LEFT]Mindless undead don't necessarily attack all in sight. In fact, if given no orders by a competent "programmer" (i.e. by somebody with the ability to control mindless undead through Rebuking, spells etc.), I always imagined mindless undead to just remain the way they are indefinitely. I'd play them as automatons animated by a power source (negative energy) and controlled by a simple "BIOS" (programmed by the spell/ability that created them). The "BIOS" allows them to understand and follow orders given by a competent "programmer". That's all. They have no desires, not even the desire to attack the living, feed, preserve their own existence or what-have-you. So if a Necropolitan spellcaster casts Animate Dead on a corpse, all that nets him is a slightly less dead corpse, with the [I]potential [/I]to shuffle around and obey simple orders - [I]if [/I]the spellcaster in question also knows how to "program" his creation. However, this is my personal interpretation, there's no rules text to cover this question. You're free to interpret it "mindless Undead = raging killing machine unless otherwise ordered". Also, why would an intelligent undead creature not attack another undead creature? There's no Undead Covenant or anything like that. They're just a creature type. Animals eat other animals, humanoids kill, rape, exploit and on occasion diss other humanoids, evil outsiders kill evil outsiders in the Blood War... why wouldn't an undead creature kill another undead creature, if only to eat it? Ghouls [I]do [/I]eat the flesh of the dead, after all... not necessarily the flesh of a Lich powerful enough to [I]create [/I]them, though! [/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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