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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abri" data-source="post: 90742" data-attributes="member: 1080">Yes I know another alignement post...The PhB class some spells as Good or Evil. Is it me or is there some serious problem behind this:Ok so vampiric touch is evil, I can understand, after all it can make sense that draining the life of your adversary to heal yourself isn't a selfless act...But that's way over-simplifying it: IMC, we have 3 wizards (1 necromancer, 1 enchanter, 1 evoker) and honnestly if the necromancer is the Evil one then I'm a little worried about the definition of good for the other two.Let's face it DnD wizard and mage are almost always tooled-up to be killing machine: a mage who spends his life learning spells to kill people or monsters doesn't seem to me as sane or good.I know we are supposed to cast "suspension of disbelief" on ourselves, but as a DM I can't really see me telling the necromancer in the group that his alignement shift to evil because he often cast enervation or other necromantic spells (which cause no collateral damage or death among bistanders), while the evoker burns douzains of ennemies with fireballs (which do cause heavy collateral damage).I know the FAQ says that intentions have nothing to do ith a spell being evil or not, but I think this really remove some moral responsability from the characters...</blockquote>