Undead NPC's

[was]

Do they always have to be evil? I am currently fleshing out a LN Vampire as the lord of a country in a homebrew campaign. He drinks the blood of convicted murderers. Is this a plausible fiction or should I rewrite the NPC as a more predictable evil?

 

[BigVanVader]

Dude, it's your game. Do whatever you want.

Make a vampire who everybody knows is a vampire, but he doesn't break any laws, so the PCs can't touch him. In fact, they'll be arrested by the guards if they just try to stake him or something. That would be tremendously great.

 

[GMMichael]

It depends on what you think Good and Evil are. To some, they're just a label. To others, they're planes with objective sources of power. And even others see them as concrete moral imperatives.

If you know what you think Good and Evil are, use that as guidance on whether undead can be non-evil. If you haven't figured out what Good and Evil are yet, then you have other questions to be asking yourself.

Remember, dude, it's your game.