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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7015728" data-attributes="member: 284">Responding to myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I actually think this could be an interesting quirk for a campaign, or for a region where a god of the dead holds sway - the dead aren't buried because when the god calls them to the afterlife, the dead have to literally get up and walk to a certain location to be transported there.   So you see wandering undead along the side of the road or through the forest, but they don't attack unless they are disturbed.Necromancer's can blaspheme by taking control of the wandering undead, or by creating undead from the god's worshipers before they have risen on their own - disrupting the "natural" order of unlife.  Or they can work within the bounds of the religion by petitioning specific undead to help them with a task that would have been important to them in their living days (defending the village, attacking an enemy of their nation, etc).  If the undead agree, then the spells work on them as normal, without drawing the ire of the god or their cleric's and paladins.</blockquote>