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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 4300387" data-attributes="member: 47776">Hussar, allow me to introduce you to an internet neologism called bang notation.  It's very useful for clarifying the use of terms of art during discussion.Let's say that I'm in a discussion about the role of deities in a D&D universe, and that the discussion has wandered from FR to Eberron to the implied core setting and back.  Since all of the three settings have different rules for clerics (and thus mean subtly different things whenever the concept of cleric is referenced), it's difficult to make a blanket statement that is true and useful.  So, rather than complicating our sentence structure, we simply modify the word 'cleric', prefixing a modifier and an exclamation point to clarify our meaning.Examples:ForgottenRealms!Clerics are required to worship a deity.Eberron!Clerics are effectively all domain clerics; what they believe is more important than what (or if) their god actually is.Core!Clerics can go either way.Now, let's try this again with morality.  D&D introduces the concept of morality as a planar force, tied generally but not always to what we consider morally-correct action.  Morality has an existing and contradictory definition; it is not generally considered morally correct to set off baby-killing effects within range of babies, even if those effects would be considered morally good elsewhere.  Because we have this disconnect, we can refer to D&D's inherent morality system as Planar!Good and conventional morality as Conventional!Good.Now, Animate Dead is Planar!Evil.  This is not a statement that is generally disputed.  But if you want to actually discuss what this means in terms of conventional morality and not sound like a crazed Raptoran cleric going on about disloyalty to the elemental force of Air, you need to tie Planar!Evil to Conventional!Evil.</blockquote>

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