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<blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8568906" data-attributes="member: 82524">So 3e have mindless undead as neutral because it actually followed its own rules for how monster alignment worked.But then the actual Animate Dead spell had the [Evil] tag, which allowed it to interact with things like the Evil domain and certain magic items. Some people decided that having the tag made the spell an act of that tag (So Fireball is a Fire act and should move your alignment toward Fire, you see).There were many arguments about this and on the WotC boards, some handsome and dashing individual called out a designer on this (without knowing they were a designer at the time). Then magically 3.5 came out and mindless undead were evil despite being mindless and thus neutral by the rules still in the 3.5 MM.Finally, the worst official D&amp;D book ever penned, the Book of Vile Darkness, came out and declared undead creation is evil because it being Negative Energy from the Negative Energy Plane (canonically a Neutral plane in the MotP and 3.5 SRD) into the world.So in short, Go home, D&amp;D, you're drunk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vaalingrade, post: 8568906, member: 82524"] So 3e have mindless undead as neutral because it actually followed its own rules for how monster alignment worked. But then the actual Animate Dead spell had the [Evil] tag, which allowed it to interact with things like the Evil domain and certain magic items. Some people decided that having the tag made the spell an act of that tag (So Fireball is a Fire act and should move your alignment toward Fire, you see). There were many arguments about this and on the WotC boards, some handsome and dashing individual called out a designer on this (without knowing they were a designer at the time). Then magically 3.5 came out and mindless undead were evil despite being mindless and thus neutral by the rules still in the 3.5 MM. Finally, the worst official D&D book ever penned, the Book of Vile Darkness, came out and declared undead creation is evil because it being Negative Energy from the Negative Energy Plane (canonically a Neutral plane in the MotP and 3.5 SRD) into the world. So in short, Go home, D&D, you're drunk. [/QUOTE]

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