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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1741063" data-attributes="member: 5777">There is of course a difference between 'not good' and 'Evil'.Also, there is a difference between 'unlawful' and 'Evil'.I have no problem with animating the dead not being evil. So long as it does nothing to the soul then there is no problem. Negative energy is not evil either and one could also power undead by positive energy if push came to shove.By the core animate dead is an evil spell, and many undead are classified as evil. Although it doesnt really give any reason why. Especially since a good number of undead are nonintelligent, pretty hard to have an alignment if you have no intelligence. Animals are classified as neutral because they have no ability to distinguish right from wrong, are nonintelligent undead any different?Houserule wise I have changed animate dead in former campaigns to be nonevil, merely a neutral act. Some forms are evil (those that do something with the soul) but merely useing someones body is not good or evil, but it can be lawful or unlawful. There are societies in various books and video games that are not evil and yet they use animated dead (with permission) to better society. No one really wants to muck the stables, but the animated dead will do it all day. There are lots of drudgery jobs that when the undead are doing it can free up people for more fullfilling tasks.Effectively it can be treated the same as animating an object, what is the difference? One was built by process X and the other was built through process Y. So long as the soul is not disturbed then it is not evil, so long as it follows the laws of the lands then it is not unlawful.</blockquote>

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