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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 834368" data-attributes="member: 3087">Writer participation. Whee!While it may not be legal to trade a body the winner of a particularly coveted corpse might be invited to "colaborate" in someone's research.In any organization there are probably people who work very assidioiusly to master the system and use it to there advantage. So that less academically gifted necromancers could advance their station by maintaining a stable of journymen they could arrage to collaborate on a project, i.e. supply materials.That might be the genisis of a particularly interesting anatomist guild character.Then there's just the old fashioned hiring-someone-to-adjust-the-rolls-and-change-the-order-of-the-corpses. (Might be a fun solo adventure for a rogue character....). Invisibility to undead to avoid the guards,etc.Perhaps a high gorgon perished within the city, without the authorities noticing its true nature. Now a certain-someone within HF very badly wants that corpse before a proper autopsy raises some questions about what preciesely they were doing.Anyway the unintended consiquences of the no trading rule could wind up producing some very counter-intuitive results.(Though thats partially the free market capitalist in me, these kinds of systems rarely acheive the goals they are intended to when they are actually implimented.)I had actually assumed that a necromancer wouldn't be allowed to get anyone like this. If someone killed a retainer that retainers necromancer and associates would not be allowed to get the corpse.(Basically the Necromancers-aren't-cruel thinking above).Of course if the bailiff never identified the a connection and it weren't widely know it might be possible.I like the politics having an impact, a junior member might be censured while a major researcher with an impressive petegrie (sp) might be beyond reproach.Then you could have a necromancer who's fallen in love with a dead spirit and tries to procure the body of a young woman so that the object of his obsession might return to life.I tend to agree that people are fine with capital punishment. When you got pretty solid evidence that people will be going to on outer plane based on their choices in life, when you can measure the degree of somone's evil-ness in a binary way and so on I think a lof of common folk's objections to death would tend to melt away.</blockquote>

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