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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 9175526" data-attributes="member: 6786252">I think that you're missing the fact that D&D is a violent game.  Of course there's going to be a whole host of violent spells in every school (except Abjuration), because that's what the game revolves around.  This is just a kind of selection bias - there's plenty of non-offensive potential in Enchantment school, we just don't get to see it, because, well, defeating antagonists is the name of the game.  Literally in this case.They're in the core books, and the Raise Dead spell specifically references the monsters, which are in the MM.  Its like the Conjure Elemental and Conjure Minor Elemental spells.  There are no elementals in the PHB, but they very much can be called upon.  In fact, the spells (both Raise Dead and the Elemental ones) both reference the DM having the stats, presumably because the DM is the one with the MM. Saying that its not in the PHB isn't a good excuse.  D&D relies on three core books, not just the PHB.  You can make a good argument for any book outside of those three, but not the three itself. Clerics, as a whole, are based around necromancy; its part of their class identity.  There's a reason they get Turn Undead, one and all.  Clerics get their power from the blessings of gods and other powerful beings of the Outer Planes.  Also known as the afterlife that the majority of souls travel to.  They get the ability to commune with the dead.  So, its only natural that Light and Love and Law cast spells related to necromancy, because that's just part of the base class.  Subclasses don't overwrite base classes.Abjuration is the spell school of defense, so its a lot less offensive in all senses of the words.</blockquote>

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