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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: 5189848" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Mine do, largely due to RW stories of good ghosts, faiths like Voudoun that recognize both sides of the issue, and those traditions that, like the Egyptians, believed that they could create immortal guardians of the dead from the spirits of the living (willing or not).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's that Road to Hell again!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>But yeah- it is a good plotline. I've explored themes like this in my games (and my fiction)...and sometimes I've flipped it on its head.</p><p></p><p>One of my more memorable BBEG wasn't E. He was a powerful lich-lord, supposedly conforming in every way to the stereotypical Undead Lord of Evil, complete with undead armies, summoned demons and the like. At the campaign's start, his army stood on the brink of conquering the last bastions of goodness & light in the world.</p><p></p><p>Only the big reveal was that, over the countless centuries, he had lost interest in the details of his realm's conquests. Thus, he began to delegate more and more of the decisions to his trusted underlings while he spent more time researching magics of increasing power.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, he was interested only in the new magics, and let all other things slide...including the conquest of the world and the magics that sustained his unlife. As those magics eroded without renewal, he became senile and somewhat childlike. In alignment terms, he was TN, and his former Viceroy had simply followed his last set of orders, becoming the defacto ruler of the land and the true driving force behind the Dark Empire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5189848, member: 19675"] Mine do, largely due to RW stories of good ghosts, faiths like Voudoun that recognize both sides of the issue, and those traditions that, like the Egyptians, believed that they could create immortal guardians of the dead from the spirits of the living (willing or not). There's that Road to Hell again!:) But yeah- it is a good plotline. I've explored themes like this in my games (and my fiction)...and sometimes I've flipped it on its head. One of my more memorable BBEG wasn't E. He was a powerful lich-lord, supposedly conforming in every way to the stereotypical Undead Lord of Evil, complete with undead armies, summoned demons and the like. At the campaign's start, his army stood on the brink of conquering the last bastions of goodness & light in the world. Only the big reveal was that, over the countless centuries, he had lost interest in the details of his realm's conquests. Thus, he began to delegate more and more of the decisions to his trusted underlings while he spent more time researching magics of increasing power. Ultimately, he was interested only in the new magics, and let all other things slide...including the conquest of the world and the magics that sustained his unlife. As those magics eroded without renewal, he became senile and somewhat childlike. In alignment terms, he was TN, and his former Viceroy had simply followed his last set of orders, becoming the defacto ruler of the land and the true driving force behind the Dark Empire. [/QUOTE]
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