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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6183343" data-attributes="member: 95493"><p>Why are devils evil even though angels are good?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Because both of those archetypes are not meant to be a good guy. Becoming a lich is like willfully becoming a vampire. You want to lose your soul and everything that makes you you, by cutting out your soul and stuffing into a box. A good person doesn't do this. A sick one does. A good necromancer might work, but even then its the same general problem though less severe as lich.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Undead can't be resurrected." Meaning just that. They can't be resurrected. They can be resurrected IF they are destroyed - as the previous sentence describes. Ergo, destroy the undead and then you can resurrect them (presumably as a non-undead) but Don't destroy them and you can't. That is the literal reading of those sentences. What grammar am I not parsing? Aka. How can I ignore the rules to get some other variation that lets me abuse the system to make this not evil?</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is true though, you don't need the body. Though presumably the specific of the description of "destroy them first" still needs to apply regardless of having the body. Just like.. if they are killed by disintegrate you can still still resurrect them without the dust. But presumably you can't resurrect the same person over and over, even if you have the body/parts, if they are already alive.</p><p>Or do I need to do more parsing to get that interpretation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 6183343, member: 95493"] Why are devils evil even though angels are good? Because both of those archetypes are not meant to be a good guy. Becoming a lich is like willfully becoming a vampire. You want to lose your soul and everything that makes you you, by cutting out your soul and stuffing into a box. A good person doesn't do this. A sick one does. A good necromancer might work, but even then its the same general problem though less severe as lich. "Undead can't be resurrected." Meaning just that. They can't be resurrected. They can be resurrected IF they are destroyed - as the previous sentence describes. Ergo, destroy the undead and then you can resurrect them (presumably as a non-undead) but Don't destroy them and you can't. That is the literal reading of those sentences. What grammar am I not parsing? Aka. How can I ignore the rules to get some other variation that lets me abuse the system to make this not evil? This is true though, you don't need the body. Though presumably the specific of the description of "destroy them first" still needs to apply regardless of having the body. Just like.. if they are killed by disintegrate you can still still resurrect them without the dust. But presumably you can't resurrect the same person over and over, even if you have the body/parts, if they are already alive. Or do I need to do more parsing to get that interpretation? [/QUOTE]
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