Cleric L/G needs to kill a friendly animate dead???

[Legendary]

I was playing with a cleric L/G and the mage of my party used animate dead....
Do I HAVE to turn it??? or I can only ignore the undead?? will I lose my daily Spells or xp???

 

[Tar-Edhel]

Well, there is an evil descriptor to animate dead. I can't imagine a good cleric just looking away. You should be opposed to this.

Unless there is a very good reason, you should not let your friend animate corpse, IMO.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"I mean, the mage is a top man."

"I always liked the mage."

"If we're bein' rushed by 'ordes of orcs and that, it's always 'andy 'avin' one of them fireballs around."

"It's what mages are all about, innit? Gotta respect a man with a fireball."

"But if the mage starts thinkin' about raising the dead..."

"Well, you wouldn't stand for it, would you?"

"I should think not! I should go up to him and say 'OI! MAGE! NO! IT'S ALL VERY WELL THROWING EVOCATIONS AROUND WHEN THINGS GET A BIT HOT, BUT NECROMANCY IS AN EVIL ACT! 'OW'D YOU LIKE IT IF I WENT AROUND POURIN' 'OLY WATER ON YOUR GRIMOIRES, EH? SHOW SOME BLOODY RESPECT FOR THE DEAD!'"

"You'd be well in order, I have to say."

"Mages. Pah. Make me sick, the lot of 'em."

-Hyp.

 

[dravot]

Very cute, Hypersmurf

Answer comes down to how your DM interprets your condoning of the animate undead spell, and how he'd decide your deity's actions.

It's a slippery slope thing though, and you're probably better off keeping it from happening in the first place.

My main character (WizarDru's story hour) is a cleric of Pelor/Hunter of the Dead, and he's been faced with a couple of moral dilemmas regarding encounters with undead.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I STILL don't understand why it is that animate dead got the evil descriptor, but looting the bodies of your fallen foes is OK...

 

[Tar-Edhel]

I STILL don't understand why it is that animate dead got the evil descriptor, but looting the bodies of your fallen foes is OK...

If you really don't see a difference, I wouldn' want to meet you in a dark alley

From BOVD: Creating them (undead) is one of the most heinous crime against the world a character can commit. Even if they are commanded to do something good, undead invariably brings negative energy into the world, which makes it a darker and more evil place (p.8).

Looting your foes is aeons from animating the dead on the EVIL scale.

 

[Alzrius]

I'm a glutton for punishment, so I'm just going to point out that negative energy itself isn't evil, per se. The source of it all, the Negative Energy Plane, is an Inner Plane, meaning no inherent alignment. It's just that being the essence of death means that its used for evil 99% of the time.

 

[Hypersmurf]

However, 'channelling negative energy is an evil act', according to Defenders of the Faith.

Apparently, though, this only refers to expending a turn attempt to channel negative energy, as a whole lot of spells that are stated as "channelling negative energy" - like the Inflict Wounds chain - do not have the [Evil] descriptor.

-Hyp.