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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2549297" data-attributes="member: 571">It would put a premium on capturing enemies rather than killing them. Better to take them home, feed them, and put them to work than to have to kill them a second time.Now note that in D&D undead can be 'killed' a second time by inflicting massive damage on them. Apparently the body must be reasonably intact to be animated as undead. If sufficiently damaged the false animation ends. which raises the possibility of the tradition of dismembering the dead, or otherwise rendering them too damaged to be made undead.Undertaker: Mrs. Grumvald, we'll be burying your husband's torso in the north, his head in the south, and the limbs in random locations around the cemetary.Or a body might be disposed of through digestion. Scavengers of various types from carrion beetles to vultures and crows when available. Though in an emergency, or as normal practice in some cultures, through the ingestion of the deceased by the survivors.Hobgoblin chief: Normally we'd happily kill you, but we have so much human, elf, and gnome meat stocked up we're getting sick of it. A gold piece in ransom from each of you and we'll call it good. And could you take our dead along with you for proper disposal? We've had so much hobgolin in the last couple of weeks the mere thought of having to eat more makes us physically ill. We can provide recipes if that'll help.</blockquote>