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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeit" data-source="post: 2686660" data-attributes="member: 33139">"Undead are always evil because they are created with a spell that has the [evil] descriptor." "Create Undead is [evil] because it creates evil creatures."This circular logic is giving me a headache.That said, I don't see any given reason why in general undead are supposed to be evil. Negative energy is not evil, the [evil] descriptor is actually meant as a sign that this spell is part of the cleric's [evil] domain and can't be cast by good clerics, the undead type has no set alignment, skeletons, zombies, etc. are mindless, which makes them actually unable to be evil...Well, I dunno. Aside from a very dumb design decision (if one takes the planar logic into context), there's not much saying that undead are evil. But, Paladins gotta smite these things, so let's make them all evil and sort it them out later.</blockquote>