How about the magic spell that gives you ability to ask the dead 5 questions and they must answer it truthfully?
(I saw it in the D&D movie, never actually played the game, I don’t have any friends)
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 months ago
Going with D&D’s version of necromancy… probably not. Undead have a strong and innate anti-life bias. Some intelligent undead are likely to be able to mask it, but without exceptionally strong wills will likely still act in a way that will cause the most death.
Non-undead ressurected individuals would likely be able to testify, however.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 2 months ago
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 months ago
You know, come to think of it, I did play in a game where this exact scenario played out, we got some state-sanctioned necromancers to get an actual corpse as a witness to a crime with that exact spell.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know it isn’t canon, but in several games we shoved most of the healing and harming clerical magic into Necromancy, since that is the school that deals with life magic.
Resurrected or raised dead should be living, and therefore able to testify. Possibly even a lich or vampire, but I would agree that a recent, mummy, zombie, weight, skeleton, or ghost would be inadmissible.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re saying we should use the undead to replace the police? I mean sure they might more people, but at least they won’t be discriminatory about it.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 2 months ago
Hey, so long as someone with more ethics than the average patrol officer is in charge of the Command Undead spell, skeleton cops might even be safer and more humane for everyone…