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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9225331" data-attributes="member: 6801845">In the real world there are no &quot;Negative&quot; or &quot;Positive&quot; planes of existence either. There's no HP, AC, or attack bonuses either. People's abilities can't be broken into a set of 6 simple numbers. People don't heal overnight.It's evil because it's a game. A game that uses easily recognizable constructs that give guidance to the DM and player. You keep applying real world logic and reasoning to a game, it just doesn't work that way. Animating dead not evil in your campaign? Concepts of inherently right and wrong are nonexistent? Cool!But most I've ever played with over decades don't care. We want to play a game and it has nothing to do with philosophical debates that have no answer. For us? The default that animating dead is evil because it requires negative energy simplifies the ugly complexity of the real world into something we can agree upon and deal with. Most of the time I want to be on &quot;Team good guy fighting evil&quot;. It's not at all realistic, it's not the real world, it's purely escapism action movie hero stuff and I love it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9225331, member: 6801845"] In the real world there are no "Negative" or "Positive" planes of existence either. There's no HP, AC, or attack bonuses either. People's abilities can't be broken into a set of 6 simple numbers. People don't heal overnight. It's evil because it's a game. A game that uses easily recognizable constructs that give guidance to the DM and player. You keep applying real world logic and reasoning to a game, it just doesn't work that way. Animating dead not evil in your campaign? Concepts of inherently right and wrong are nonexistent? Cool! But most I've ever played with over decades don't care. We want to play a game and it has nothing to do with philosophical debates that have no answer. For us? The default that animating dead is evil because it requires negative energy simplifies the ugly complexity of the real world into something we can agree upon and deal with. Most of the time I want to be on "Team good guy fighting evil". It's not at all realistic, it's not the real world, it's purely escapism action movie hero stuff and I love it. [/QUOTE]

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