Michael Lehofer-Chavez 865 Venture-Lieutenant, Alabama—Huntsville |
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Thanks I'm Hiding In Your Closet. My big worry though is that people are overlooking the consent part of the spell and most times the dead are forced into acting for others, but what if you have consent prior to casting the spell? And if I get consent of the dead and try to bring them peace is that worse than ignoring what they want and forcing my cultural dead ceremonies, be it burial, fire, or whatever? In the 13 years I've been playing D&D I've never seen a necromancer type character try to get the dead's approval before animating them. I want to say that if a person agrees to be raised and has an input on what their body does, varying based on what they want, and has an ultimate decision on what happens to them in the end then the dead are being given a gift and not being desecrated.
You've really written something to think about and honestly I would love to play an adventure where you pick between paladins and soldiers threatened by losing their jobs vs a necromancer/wizard trying to make a village's people's lives easier/better. I've always enjoyed stories that make you question what is right and what is wrong.