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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8571723" data-attributes="member: 6788736">So you're interpreting this:''Creating the undead through the use of necromancy spells such as animate dead is not a good act, and only evil casters use such spells frequently.''As:''If you use animate dead frequently, you are not likely a good NPC.''In which case, never study law. 'Likely' has nothing to do with it, and neither does 'NPC'. The prohibition is absolute, and it applies to every spell caster.The rules clearly state that ONLY EVIL spell casters (PC and NPC, there is no distinction) animate the dead frequently with necromancy spells, and that animating them via that magic is NOT A GOOD ACT.Ergo, if a spellcaster (PC or NPC) animates the dead with necromancy magic, they are:1) NOT performing a Good act, and 2) If they do so regularly, they are NOT Good (or Neutral); they are Evil.There is literally no other way to parse that sentence as anything else. You can choose to ignore than sentence if you want (great, good for you) but there is literally no room for semantics here. The act itself is NOT GOOD and ONLY EVIL creatures do it frequently.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8571723, member: 6788736"] So you're interpreting this: [I]''Creating the undead through the use of necromancy spells such as[/I] animate dead [I]is not a good act, and only evil casters use such spells frequently.''[/I] As[I]: ''If you use [/I]animate dead[I] frequently, you are not likely a good NPC.''[/I] In which case, never study law. 'Likely' has nothing to do with it, and neither does 'NPC'. The prohibition is absolute, and it applies to every spell caster. The rules clearly state that [B][U]ONLY EVIL [/U][/B]spell casters (PC [B]and [/B]NPC, there is no distinction) animate the dead frequently with necromancy spells, and that animating them via that magic is [B][U]NOT A GOOD ACT.[/U][/B] Ergo, if a spellcaster (PC or NPC) animates the dead with necromancy magic, they are: 1) NOT performing a Good act, and 2) If they do so regularly, they are NOT Good (or Neutral);[B] they are Evil.[/B] There is literally no other way to parse that sentence as anything else. You can choose to ignore than sentence if you want (great, good for you) but there is literally no room for semantics here. The act itself is NOT GOOD and ONLY EVIL creatures do it frequently. [/QUOTE]

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