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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ragnar_Lodbrok" data-source="post: 6182871" data-attributes="member: 6750005">Undead shouldn't be inherently evil. Inherently predatory, perhaps, but not evil. My setting's undead are simply given some form of animation by minor extraplanar entities, most of which are just a bare sliver of conciousness desiring nothing but to feed. Mindless undead are as neutral as a carnivorous plant. Actually sentient ones are created in much nastier ways, and would fit a human definition of evil in most cases. And stuff like liches are something quite different. To use them as an example, the ritual to become one involves a couple of low-grade atrocities, and is almost only ever actually done by those who have already merrily leaped past the Moral Event Horizon.So, my favored way of doing things gives reasons for undead to be viewed as inherently evil by the living. But aside from asinine D&D morality, nothing says it's automatically the case. If a GM wants morally complex undead, go for it. Sounds awesome.</blockquote>