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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7015242" data-attributes="member: 19857">I think what you're actually seeing is that the scenario developers who have come up with the map for the village don't think to put a churchyard in the village because of how religion is handled in D&D vs. how things like this were handled in the real world.  In our world during the medieval time period there was a dominant religion that was very concerned with the remains of the dead, and so every village is going to have a graveyard and it may actually be in a fairly prominent place near the church.   The only time I see graveyards on a D&D village map is if the scenario specifically calls for undead to rise from a graveyard or something similar.In my own campaign worlds graveyards are blessed via special rituals and any corpses buried there are protected from being raised as undead - either spontaneously or through an act of deliberate magic.  So long as the acolyte tends to the blessings on the graveyard that is.  It's probably also outside of the village proper, though that's more of a judgment call and would depend on the local religious character.  Why don't people just burn all of their dead?  In some parts of my campaign world they do.  In other parts it's a religious taboo to do anything but bury the dead in a sacred spot and if you don't do it then you risk the deceased coming back as a spirit instead of a corporeal undead.  Mostly I want to keep large plots of land stuffed with corpses available for story purposes, so there's a reason for it.</blockquote>

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