Undead and morale bonuses

[Miras]

Hi!
I'm running a D&D 3.5 campaign. Recently, I've been looking at Libris Mortis suplement and I decided to incorporate "necropolitan template" into my game. It fits perfectly into the scenarios I've planned - I'm just going to change some flavour aspects of that template so that it can fit into my campaign.

I think some of my players might be tempted to become undead with that template. The problem is; my group seems to enjoy morale-type effects. They love boosting themselves with spells like Good Hope and Conviction (from Spell Compedium). SRD clearly says that undead are immune to morale effects so I'm pretty sure that spells like that won't work on a Necropolitan PC anymore. Have I missed anything?

I plan to discuss it with my players anyway - I'm sure we can compromise and find a reasonable solution. I want to hear some arguments from other gaming groups as well though.

 

[HoboGod]

Well, if they're subject to morale effects, they'll suddenly become subject to all mind-affecting effects. That's pretty much the only way I see it being fair. Either their mind has become so twisted and warped by the vision of the other side that no hope or fear shall ever reach them, or they're the living undead and the vision of the other side is not something they know or can remember, hope and fear is still the nature of their being. To say "I'm an undead, yeah, my mind is so far gone that your feeble attempts to sway it are like trying to crush the ocean with your fist, but I respond well to the encouragement and approval of others." is completely ridiculous.

 

[Miras]

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this matter. Being undead has many perks but also a few drawbacks. One of my players already expressed a similar opinion, so I think that's the correct interpretation of the rules.
I guess undead PC will need to look for another way of boosting himself, I'm sure there are more spells like 'desacrate' in the Spell Compredium... as if an undead needs more boosting with his list of immunities... .