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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nish" data-source="post: 91734" data-attributes="member: 145">Exactly. For awhile now I've felt it odd that most of the standard gods of death like Nerull are evil and also associated with undead. I mean think about: Death and Undeath. Sounds to me like these should be diametrically opposed concepts. Death is not evil. Death is no more evil than birth; all that begins must also end. It is simply the way things work. Therefore, I have a hard time believing magic that directly and efficiently causes someone die is inherently evil. Again, it can be used for evil, but this is no different than a sword, which I think we can all agree is an inert lump of steel.Animating the dead may be another matter. However, most non-intelligent undead are neutral, which in my opinion makes them very similar to a golem or other construct, except for the fact that the materials used are questionable. Making mindless skeletons can certainly be construed as disrespectful and unlawful in many situations, but I still don't think it is automatically evil. Creating something like a vampire, which is always evil and will result in the death of innocents, is an evil act in my opinion.Although, my opinions on this subject might be worth much here, because I hate objective morality. I've also been pining to play our evil campaign again, becaus those characters are much less "tactically castrated". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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