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Is necromancy evil or only as harmless as talking to your dead grandmother?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5189804" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Well, I can think of several reasons why someone might choose Undeath over becoming a Living Construct or an Intelligent Item:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The ability to transfer a soul into a Golem (or other contstruct) may not exist in this campaign world.<br /> *]The ability to transfer a soul into a Golem may require that the person die first, thus being functionally and morally indistinguishable from the ritual for making someone undead...while simultaneously having less expensive and time-consuming requirements for creating a construct body suitable for the transfer (which may be greater than the requirements for creating a normal construct).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The ability to transfer a soul into a construct may not be within the capabilities of anyone the person knows, trusts or has access to within a particular time constraint, if at all.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The capability may exist, but the magic to do so may rob the soul of free will, enslaving the construct-housed soul to the caster.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They may not have the raw materials on hand.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They may not have time (the ritual for transference into a construct may take more time than the necromantic ritual).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Any item, intelligent or not, requires the actions of another being, rendering the transferred soul again into a form of involuntarily servitude. He can't act of his own free will, he must have a "wielder."</li> </ol><p></p><p></p><p>Right- I noticed, which is why I formulated the would-be undead's motives the way I did. It at least seems that he is being at least somewhat altruistic in that he is traveling this path for the sake of others.</p><p></p><p>(And yes, as a Roman Catholic, I've heard about the "Road to Hell" being paved with good intentions...)</p><p></p><p>Of course, other facts might put the lie to that, even with my formulation. If this would-be undead person was the BBEG, and the city he was attempting to protect is his own City of Demonskullbadness, he's probably going to get counted as being evil nonetheless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5189804, member: 19675"] Well, I can think of several reasons why someone might choose Undeath over becoming a Living Construct or an Intelligent Item: [LIST=1] [*]The ability to transfer a soul into a Golem (or other contstruct) may not exist in this campaign world. *]The ability to transfer a soul into a Golem may require that the person die first, thus being functionally and morally indistinguishable from the ritual for making someone undead...while simultaneously having less expensive and time-consuming requirements for creating a construct body suitable for the transfer (which may be greater than the requirements for creating a normal construct). [*]The ability to transfer a soul into a construct may not be within the capabilities of anyone the person knows, trusts or has access to within a particular time constraint, if at all. [*]The capability may exist, but the magic to do so may rob the soul of free will, enslaving the construct-housed soul to the caster. [*]They may not have the raw materials on hand. [*]They may not have time (the ritual for transference into a construct may take more time than the necromantic ritual). [*]Any item, intelligent or not, requires the actions of another being, rendering the transferred soul again into a form of involuntarily servitude. He can't act of his own free will, he must have a "wielder." [/LIST] Right- I noticed, which is why I formulated the would-be undead's motives the way I did. It at least seems that he is being at least somewhat altruistic in that he is traveling this path for the sake of others. (And yes, as a Roman Catholic, I've heard about the "Road to Hell" being paved with good intentions...) Of course, other facts might put the lie to that, even with my formulation. If this would-be undead person was the BBEG, and the city he was attempting to protect is his own City of Demonskullbadness, he's probably going to get counted as being evil nonetheless. [/QUOTE]
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