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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4055313" data-attributes="member: 710">In my Diamond Throne campaign a few years ago, I used 4 &quot;parts&quot; - soul (ability to distinguish right/wrong and making decisions based on that), mind (able to plan activity and understand the world), spirit (will to live, desires) and body (ability to manipulate the world, the host of the other 3).&nbsp; Undead s and Constructs used to lack one or more or these parts. Creatures without a soul are amoral - Vampires and stuff like that.Creatures without a mind are - well, mindless, like Skeletons, Golems, ZombiesCreatures without a spirit don't have their own will - things like Golems or SkeletonsCreatures without a body are obvious incorporeal, so usually Ghosts and Wraiths and stuff.A Skeleton undead would basically just be body. He has no mind, no soul, and his spirit is replaced by the commands of his creator. I am not sure how I could &quot;simplify&quot; this approach to get to the 3 parts body, animus and soul. Obviously, spirit fits to animus, but is mind also &quot;in there&quot;? And does this work at all with the W&amp;M/D&amp;D 4 approach?If it would, Skeletons would be soulless and don't have their own animus, just their body. There is still something &quot;driving&quot; it, but it's not a real animus, it's something created by magic...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4055313, member: 710"] In my Diamond Throne campaign a few years ago, I used 4 "parts" - soul (ability to distinguish right/wrong and making decisions based on that), mind (able to plan activity and understand the world), spirit (will to live, desires) and body (ability to manipulate the world, the host of the other 3). Undead s and Constructs used to lack one or more or these parts. Creatures without a soul are amoral - Vampires and stuff like that. Creatures without a mind are - well, mindless, like Skeletons, Golems, Zombies Creatures without a spirit don't have their own will - things like Golems or Skeletons Creatures without a body are obvious incorporeal, so usually Ghosts and Wraiths and stuff. A Skeleton undead would basically just be body. He has no mind, no soul, and his spirit is replaced by the commands of his creator. I am not sure how I could "simplify" this approach to get to the 3 parts body, animus and soul. Obviously, spirit fits to animus, but is mind also "in there"? And does this work at all with the W&M/D&D 4 approach? If it would, Skeletons would be soulless and don't have their own animus, just their body. There is still something "driving" it, but it's not a real animus, it's something created by magic... [/QUOTE]

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