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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Engilbrand" data-source="post: 3922261" data-attributes="member: 44184">I don't agree that Animation is inherently evil. What if the Necromancer used his own lifeforce to "power" his construct? Take X damage to give a corpse life. You control it because it's just an extension of yourself in a different body. The soul is already gone. You could even have higher level spells that allow you to either temporarily keep the soul in the body or do a full resurrection. I could see Necromancers having the ability to talk to the dead and even "channel" them.Example:Richard the Necromancer is in a party. One of the powerful enemy henchmen is killed. Richard realizes that magic hasn't been nearly as effective as he would like. Rich channels the dead henchman into himself and gains bonuses and possibly a class feature or two as the spirit of the dead henchman grants him knowledge and power.Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series is fantastic. While there is a "typical" Necromancer for a bad guy, the main character could easily been created using D&D. He can talk to the dead, they can temporarily take him over and, in extreme cases, he can actually raise them. Well, they raise themselves, but the same idea works here.Remember, alignment is mostly going out the window, just like the Planar Cosmology. Whose to say that animation is still inherently evil? It could be completely neutral, which is as it should be.Disturbing? Yes. But someone walking around with an animated Ogre could be interesting.</blockquote>

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