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<blockquote data-quote="Traken" data-source="post: 4485394" data-attributes="member: 58574">This was taken care of in Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters.&nbsp; The preview books have excellent fluff material (that should have made it into the DMG somehow...).&nbsp; There are three basic things to a creature: the body, the animus, and the soul.&nbsp; The body is... well, the physical part.&nbsp; The animus is a kind of spiritual entity that controls the body.&nbsp; The soul is ... the soul.&nbsp; Won't go much into that for religious reasons.Most creatures possess a body, an animus, and a soul.&nbsp; Undead, however, are [normally] beings that have had their soul torn out, leaving just the animus.&nbsp; The spell Sleep actually makes creatures unconscious.&nbsp; [Fluff justification for working on undead<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />&nbsp; How it makes this possible is by interuppting the connection between the animus and the body.&nbsp; Without something to control the body, the body turns into a wet noodle and falls to the ground.&nbsp; After succeeding on a Saving Throw, the animus is reconnected with the body, and everything is quite peachy afterward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Traken, post: 4485394, member: 58574"] This was taken care of in [I]Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters[/I]. The preview books have excellent fluff material (that [I]should[/I] have made it into the DMG somehow...). There are three basic things to a creature: the body, the animus, and the soul. The body is... well, the physical part. The animus is a kind of spiritual entity that controls the body. The soul is ... the soul. Won't go much into that for religious reasons. Most creatures possess a body, an animus, and a soul. Undead, however, are [normally] beings that have had their soul torn out, leaving just the animus. The spell [I]Sleep[/I] actually makes creatures unconscious. [Fluff justification for working on undead:] How it makes this possible is by interuppting the connection between the animus and the body. Without something to control the body, the body turns into a wet noodle and falls to the ground. After succeeding on a Saving Throw, the animus is reconnected with the body, and everything is quite peachy afterward. [/QUOTE]

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