Timeline for What rules say that summoning undead is evil, and what rules say why?
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| Oct 20, 2021 at 3:42 | comment | added | Jean-Luc Nacif Coelho | It is my understanding that there is a distinction between bringing back an undead and bringing back a creature whose body was turned into an undead. You can’t do the former but you can do the latter because an intelligent zombie, say, is a separate creature from the one whose body was used to create said zombie. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 3:06 | comment | added | Ifusaso 'he-him' | Way too many tangents. This would be an excellent forum post, but I wildly disagree that this many words was necessary to answer this in a subjective way. | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 2:40 | comment | added | Fering | @AceCalhoon About True Res and undead, it cant bring back an undead creature, but if their body is an undead that should have no impact on the spell from my reading. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | Thane Brimhall | I think the very concise answer here was along the lines of: In Pathfinder (unlike the Real World), Good is a literal thing, and Evil is also a literal thing. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | Wolfman Joe | Oh, man. Thanks, Ace, for putting it all together so magnificently. I've said ... most of those things before. But just not put together so succinctly. Nicely done, very nicely done. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 14:55 | vote | accept | Wolfman Joe | ||
| Jul 1, 2014 at 9:34 | comment | added | Bob Tway | +1 for magnificent deconstruction of the meaning of "good" and "evil" as fundamental forces in the fantasy universe. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 2:33 | history | edited | AceCalhoon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | PipperChip | @WolfmanJoe See: d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/… Especially the part that says "5 Things Everyone Knows about Undead", point #3. Also, you can't answer why the designers made it this way using RAW. That's a design choice, and it acknowledges a long history of venerating the dead amongst actual, you-and-me humans. | |
| Jun 30, 2014 at 21:16 | comment | added | BrianH | Just to help on source material : d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/skeleton-medium/… "Skeletons are the animated bones of the dead, brought to unlife through foul magic. While most skeletons are mindless automatons, they still possess an evil cunning imparted to them by their animating force—a cunning that allows them to wield weapons and wear armor." That's a lot of 'foul', 'evil', etc. | |
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| Jun 30, 2014 at 19:39 | history | answered | AceCalhoon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |