>"Dead bodies are a constantly renewing resource that can be used to complete tasks"
>"Golems are just as good a solution and don't rely on dark arts and soul stealing to make"
Necromancy is evul, golems are too high level in most systems to bother with. Did everybody just forget about Invisible Servant?
Invisible Servant is weak though.
Then pay some guys to help your mom move her furniture.
It couldn't hit anything to save it's life, if it could even survive long enough to react.
Also, 4th level White Necromancers removed the evil descriptor of necromancy.
Effectively making all mindless undead true neutral and all sapient undead aligned with the necromancers alignment, if you use a white necromancer.
Invisible Servant has the strength of a child.
>necromancy is a dark art
This idea needs to die. Let magic go beyond good and evil. Let us realize that we're all driven by our own will to power, and necromancy itself is just another tool to see this will made manifest.
Friendly reminder that anyone who argues against necromancy on moral grounds ("it's Evil!") instead of practical grounds ("undead radiate Negative Energy, which poisons living things") is a moron who should be ignored at every opportunity.
But the latter has literally never been proven true. You might as well hate on healing magic for slowly making the material a positive dominant plane or something equally stupid.
I feel like arguing about necromancy is too system-dependent to be worth it.
Depends on the setting.
Are they merely automatons or are they souls given a rotting body and forced into a twisted half-life of eternal servitude.