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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8576290" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Aren't the Baelorn basically just liches? I don't know why liches would necessarily need to be evil, seems like a good way to continue wizarding after your natural lifespan runs out.* Now in 5e they added the soul sacrifices for powering lichdom, which seems rather morally questionable, but then again, given the amount of people typical D&amp;D adventurers kill, an average lich probably has a far lower kill count.I don't think that being undead makes anyone automatically evil. It's just that many lesser undead might not have the proper faculties to reasonably make moral choices. Also many undead might have become undead due some powerful grudge, trauma, etc, and now exists in semi-aware fugue state seeking vengeance or something like that. But I think there are enough ghost stories where the ghosts are not directly hostile, just sad, trapped etc, that they didn't want to make them automatically evil. And I think it is good idea to use similar judgment regarding some of the other undead as well. * Granted, I don't know why any powerful wizard would choose it if the Clone spell is available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8576290, member: 7025508"] Aren't the Baelorn basically just liches? I don't know why liches would necessarily need to be evil, seems like a good way to continue wizarding after your natural lifespan runs out.* Now in 5e they added the soul sacrifices for powering lichdom, which seems rather morally questionable, but then again, given the amount of people typical D&D adventurers kill, an average lich probably has a far lower kill count. I don't think that being undead makes anyone automatically evil. It's just that many lesser undead might not have the proper faculties to reasonably make moral choices. Also many undead might have become undead due some powerful grudge, trauma, etc, and now exists in semi-aware fugue state seeking vengeance or something like that. But I think there are enough ghost stories where the ghosts are not directly hostile, just sad, trapped etc, that they didn't want to make them automatically evil. And I think it is good idea to use similar judgment regarding some of the other undead as well. * Granted, I don't know why any powerful wizard would choose it if the [I]Clone[/I] spell is available. [/QUOTE]

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