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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 1762510" data-attributes="member: 20805">Again?"Why, in DnD RAW, are Undead = Evil"?Because, in DnD Raw, the only way to create them is Evil and makes them that way.Unless we all can crawl into the designer's minds and have a great mind-meld communal discovery, that is the best we are left with. Perhaps it has to do with the game balance of being able to Smite them.Perhaps it has to do with an unwritten Evil taint to negative energy.Perhaps it has to do with certain designer's watching the Night of the Living Dead too much.My best interpretation is that there is an Evil taint to negative energy. Some applications provide a strong enough link to alter the targets/casters alignment. Some do not. Creating undead, with the current spells available, usually causes irrepairable harm to the soul of the corpse. This act is Evil. Whether this act can affect the casters alignment is up to the DM.Back off tangent:  'Mindless' undead are creatures with alignments. What alignment fits thier actions? (SRD extracts)  Good characters make personal sacrifices to help others.  Evil characters simply have no compassion for others.  Neutral characters have compunctions against killing the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to protect or help othersOf the three, which makes sense? Evil.But, you say, "Animals and other creatures incapable of moral action are neutral rather than good or evil."A>  Speak with dead: The spell description reads, in part: "If the creature’s alignment was different from yours, the corpse gets a Will save to resist the spell as if it were alive."  Is this an action based on a morals (alignment)? If so, then a Corpse, due to having once been alive, can have an alignment other than nuetral based on its moral action.B> Oft noted are the Good undead. They can only exist if Undead can act on its morals. Hence, mindless undead will naturally fall into the category of Evil.So, either you must declare all undead to be Nuetral, or allow some udead to be Good while most will be Evil. Doing the latter, casting a spell that will probably create an Evil being would be Evil itself. Hmm, perhaps thats how they came up with this  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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