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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rom90125" data-source="post: 1849169" data-attributes="member: 17111">I am currently running a FR campaign and recently our group had a long discussion about whether or not negative energy should be associated to 'evil' as defined in the PHB.  Although the core rules clearly imply that negative energy is evil, as the DM, I do not agree with this.  I support the opinion that negative energy is nothing more than the opposite of positive energy with no correlation to morality (good vs evil).  One of the PCs in the group is a devout paladin of Tyr who has decided to answer a greater calling as a Fist of Raziel (BoED).  The issue our group is having is this... The Pal/FoR character has recently been directed to work with another character who started out as an evil necromancer but who had an epiphany many, many years ago and has been recently accepted as a Harper Scout.  The necromancer had no reason to believe her previous dealings in creating or rebuking undead was 'wrong' as her society accepted this as acceptable behavior.  But since her 'enlightenment' the necromancer has limited her necromancy to creating or rebuking undead to assist her with the cause of bringing justice to the land, and she always destroys the undead when she is done with them (versuses letting them roam).  For the necromancer, she sees these actions as no more or less evil than resurrection...both are perversions of the normal cycle of life.I am curious to know what others think of this situation.  The Pal/FoR is not sure she can accept the necromancers actions, because she was trained to believe the creation of undead is an evil act.  But her discussions with other PC's, including the necromancer/harper scout, has her beginning to question whether the world can be defined in strictly white or black, right or wrong, actions.</blockquote>

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