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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 4349062" data-attributes="member: 5100">I like having gray areas and meaningful moral perspectives in my games.&nbsp; Sometimes, it's interesting to play a character who is clearly not on a virtuous path to explore how he justifies it to himself.There is also more than one way to interpret necromancy.&nbsp; I was unhappy with the 3e decision to label animate dead as &quot;Evil&quot; because my setting has a priesthood that follows the NG guardian of the dead.&nbsp; This church occasionally has people donate their bodies to the church after their death -- animate dead doesn't trap the soul -- giving many temples a couple of skeletons to do much of the manual labor and cleaning.&nbsp; This church is also a source for the occasionally recalled undead warrior for good.&nbsp; Sure, the deathless were a later way to fill this role, though I never cared for the definition of undead as &quot;powered by negative energy&quot;.&nbsp; The 4e definition of undeath as &quot;powered by the animus&quot; lends itself quite well to the idea of undead that are other than evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 4349062, member: 5100"] I like having gray areas and meaningful moral perspectives in my games. Sometimes, it's interesting to play a character who is clearly not on a virtuous path to explore how he justifies it to himself. There is also more than one way to interpret necromancy. I was unhappy with the 3e decision to label [i]animate dead[/i] as "Evil" because my setting has a priesthood that follows the NG guardian of the dead. This church occasionally has people donate their bodies to the church after their death -- animate dead doesn't trap the soul -- giving many temples a couple of skeletons to do much of the manual labor and cleaning. This church is also a source for the occasionally recalled undead warrior for good. Sure, the deathless were a later way to fill this role, though I never cared for the definition of undead as "powered by negative energy". The 4e definition of undeath as "powered by the animus" lends itself quite well to the idea of undead that are other than evil. [/QUOTE]

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