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<blockquote data-quote="Jasperak" data-source="post: 93434" data-attributes="member: 2487">I have been doing some research on the positive/negative material planes for a new class and no where did I see anything mentioning alignments.&nbsp; Quite the contrary, pg.66 Manual of the planes states that the inner planes are &quot;Mildly Neutral-Aligned.&quot;&nbsp; Therefore, in this case I would think that whatever powers the undead is neither good nor evil.&nbsp; This would be similar to oxygen.&nbsp; Oxygen powers our lives and can be used for good or evil.&nbsp; Oxygen powered Hitler, Mother Teresa, and all those little puppies out there.&nbsp; Is oxygen good or evil?Now the act of animating a corpse may be evil.&nbsp; But those creations do not always &quot;act&quot; evil.&nbsp; Think of the Necromancer that doesn't wish to waste an unseen servant spell, so he creates a skeleton that he orders to clean his room.&nbsp; At which point would the detect evil work?Since the skeleton is powered by a &quot;neutral&quot; energy and is acting in a &quot;neutral&quot; manner, there is nothing that tells me that this skeleton is &quot;evil.&quot;&nbsp; Does anyone believe that if something is created in an &quot;evil&quot; way that that creation is evil?&nbsp; What about all those bastards out there, people born of sin by an adulter?&nbsp; Are they evil because they were created in an evil manner?It all seems to boil down to the specific beliefs and morals in the specific campaign world.&nbsp; If someone animates skeletons to defend a beseiged city, attacked by &quot;evil&quot; orcs.&nbsp; Are those skeletons evil.Anything dealing with alignment in D&amp;D is purely subjective despite what the rules say.&nbsp; The only way an &quot;evil&quot; descriptor can be attributed to a rule function is in a moral sense, which by its nature is subjective.&nbsp; Now if somewhere along the way the negative energy plane becomes &quot;evil&quot; fine, then I would probably say that all undead are evil.&nbsp; But until that time I will play my ECL +5 Zombie as Chaotic Good, thank you.&nbsp; [He is really a nice guy; he just doesn't believe in following laws.&nbsp; I mean what are they gonna do, kill him?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jasperak, post: 93434, member: 2487"] I have been doing some research on the positive/negative material planes for a new class and no where did I see anything mentioning alignments. Quite the contrary, pg.66 Manual of the planes states that the inner planes are "Mildly Neutral-Aligned." Therefore, in this case I would think that whatever powers the undead is neither good nor evil. This would be similar to oxygen. Oxygen powers our lives and can be used for good or evil. Oxygen powered Hitler, Mother Teresa, and all those little puppies out there. Is oxygen good or evil? Now the act of animating a corpse may be evil. But those creations do not always "act" evil. Think of the Necromancer that doesn't wish to waste an [i]unseen servant[/i] spell, so he creates a skeleton that he orders to clean his room. At which point would the [i]detect evil[/i] work? Since the skeleton is powered by a "neutral" energy and is acting in a "neutral" manner, there is nothing that tells me that this skeleton is "evil." Does anyone believe that if something is created in an "evil" way that that creation is evil? What about all those bastards out there, people born of sin by an adulter? Are they evil because they were created in an evil manner? It all seems to boil down to the specific beliefs and morals in the specific campaign world. If someone animates skeletons to defend a beseiged city, attacked by "evil" orcs. Are those skeletons evil. Anything dealing with alignment in D&D is purely subjective despite what the rules say. The only way an "evil" descriptor can be attributed to a rule function is in a moral sense, which by its nature is subjective. Now if somewhere along the way the negative energy plane becomes "evil" fine, then I would probably say that all undead are evil. But until that time I will play my ECL +5 Zombie as Chaotic Good, thank you. [He is really a nice guy; he just doesn't believe in following laws. I mean what are they gonna do, kill him?:D] [/QUOTE]

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