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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rae ArdGaoth" data-source="post: 2020106" data-attributes="member: 21064"><p>I've always wanted to play a good necromancer.  I had this vision of an old man, clad in bones, with a giant army of undead following him, going into towns and building them a brand new town hall with this massive "union" of perfectly obedient, immensely strong, tireless workers.  And he could dig river tributaries, wells, and all sorts of huge labor-intensive projects.  The only problem was that A) In 3.0 at least, the wizard necromancy spells (that involve raising the dead) are few and weak, B) Clerics need a god who would support such activity and alas... we are brought to C) The laws of the DnD universe (at least the one I was in) said that raising the dead is an evil act.  That last one is the biggest problem I have.  Their reasoning is that raising the dead disturbs the soul at rest.  But my thinking is that the soul is gone, the body is left to decompose without a true owner, so raising the corpse to do good works wouldn't upset the spirit at all.  I just need a nice DM who agrees with me...  I guess if I DMed my own game, I could fudge the rules and let it happen.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>