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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6274415" data-attributes="member: 5143">Not necessarily.&nbsp; The problem is thinking about how common magic is.&nbsp; In other threads this same thing has been discussed in terms of nearly every spell in existence.&nbsp; In a world with Teleport wouldn't every castle be warded against it?&nbsp; In a world with Invisibility wouldn't every guard have a magic item to see through it?The default D&amp;D assumption appears to be that magic is between fairly rare to extremely rare.&nbsp; When only one person in a 100,000 is a necromancer and the vast majority of people have only heard about raising the dead in terms of rumors and stories told to scare children then using countermeasures to prevent the dead from being raised seems silly and superstitious.Plus, there can be any number of religious reasons why they bury the corpse intact that wouldn't easily be countered even with a legitimate threat of a necromancer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6274415, member: 5143"] Not necessarily. The problem is thinking about how common magic is. In other threads this same thing has been discussed in terms of nearly every spell in existence. In a world with Teleport wouldn't every castle be warded against it? In a world with Invisibility wouldn't every guard have a magic item to see through it? The default D&D assumption appears to be that magic is between fairly rare to extremely rare. When only one person in a 100,000 is a necromancer and the vast majority of people have only heard about raising the dead in terms of rumors and stories told to scare children then using countermeasures to prevent the dead from being raised seems silly and superstitious. Plus, there can be any number of religious reasons why they bury the corpse intact that wouldn't easily be countered even with a legitimate threat of a necromancer. [/QUOTE]

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