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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2744849" data-attributes="member: 29252">Okay... so what's the ghost of the Old King that clings to the edges of life until he can get the tyrranical despot that killed him and is now running the country into the ground off the throne?Granted, Ghosts aren't the most common undead, and the making of Ghosts was removed in the 3.0 -> 3.5 transition from the PHB spell, but of those undead in the SRD, only the ghost has "Alignment: Any" in the entry....Campaign dependant, that; it's the DM's call what the behavior of mindless undead is (well, the Skeleton entry specifies they do nothing unless told to do something, but the Zombie entry doesn't use that language....).  What happens after the controller dies - okay, so the Farmer made this Zombie Horse to pull his plow, but eventually, the farmer who used the clerical Oil of Animate Dead (person applying the Oil is treated as the Caster - that Zombie-Horse is HIS, using the caster level imbued in the Oil) dies of old age, and the zombie horse is now operating under it's alignment of neutral-evil, mindlessly....</blockquote>