Why does positive energy deal damage to the undead while negative energy heals them? That makes no sense. Good energy should damage them and evil energy should heal them.
>>44531761
You just said the same thing twice.
>>44531761
>positive energy = life energy
>negative energy = anti-life energy
Anti-life energy is what animates the undead.
imagine it like PH balance
>>44532061
>anti-life energy
About that... Undead creatures are in some ways more alive than when they were just dead. And they don't reverse entropy as far as I know, they just have an extraplanar energy source. How can you put more death into dead things and then have them walk and talk like they're not dead anymore?
>>44532328
See >>44532117
Strong acids are corrosive. Strong bases are corrosive. Just because two qualities are opposites does not mean they act all that differently.
>>44532328
Death is the absence of that life energy, with the dead being completely derived of it. The anti-life energy is this life energy's anathema, its opposite; death is also the absence of this anti-life energy.
It's Yin and Yang, dude.
Or consider this: both positive and negative energy is life energy, but one is positively charged and the other negative.
>>44532328
>they don't reverse entropy as far as I know
Yes they do, and that's the key to understanding Anti-life energy.
Life energy decays along a time-wise vector, i.e. it suffers entropy. Anti-life energy grows/concentrates along a time-wise vector, i.e. it reverses entropy. This is why most undead regenerate and grow in power over time.
>more death into dead things and then have them walk and talk like they're not dead anymore?
This why I call it Anti-life energy rather than 'death energy'. Death is simply a transition point; it is life at the maximum entropy biological processes can sustain and still be considered (almost) alive. Adding Anti-life energy to a form will reanimate it, because it is the equal and opposite of life energy. Like life it is a motive force, but one that has a been inverted along a number of dimensional axes (time being one).
>>44532023
Bait so weak, I'm going to assume you're just being facetious.
This is now a sexy necromancer thread!
And sexy undead!
>>44534276
Sadly, this image surpasses the level of retarded after which I can no longer find something sexy.
>>44534341
I like her bat-gina.
>>44534341
This 'tarded enough for ya?
>>44534396
the batgina is possibly the most realistic part of her outfit (custom-made C-string)
Ainzsama is sexiest undead
>>44532546
>>44532117
>>44531761
Like this basically
>>44532328
>>44531761
Positive Energy: Living Creature, with life-force, in a living shell
Like rats, dogs, cats, people
Negative Energy: Dead/negative creature, with anti-life, in a shadow shell
Like ghost, waiths, shadows, and shades
Undeath: Empty shells of previous-Positive energy creature, filled with anti-life or negative energy.
>>44532117
>imagine it like PH balance
Literally the best way to describe why I hate having Good/Evil on the axis of universal energies/alignments.
I just use Law/Chaos. Most mortals will interpret moderately law aligned as good and moderately chaos aligned as evil, but both start to look pretty alien when you go to far.
Positive>negative energy
Negative plebeians need not apply.
The inner planes are the building blocks of the prime, all serve a purpose. Positive energy is elemental growth. Things animated by it are driven to grow, to create more.
Negative energy is destruction, keeping positive's infinite growth in check so the world doesn't become a horrid cancerball like Ragnorra. Its not an absence of energy, its energy that forces things other than itself to end. They're fundamentally similar enough that magic or strong emotion (remember, belief has actual power) can cause negative energy to copy the original animating force, but it can't be a perfect copy. The new "life" rots without growth to keep it fresh, has an urge to end life, and never dies naturally. Undeath is a glitch in the planar system that turns STOP into GO.
Negative heals them because its been twisted to serve the same function as positive, Positive hurts them because it still cancels out negative, removing the animating force until its just a corpse again.
>>44535769
>>44532546
Best explanations so far.
>>44534248
>mfw I want more of the vampiress on the right
Front and center is good and all but UNDERBOOB A BREAST.
Contribooting.
>>44531761
I just realized electricity heals undeads.
>>44531761
Because D&D is has TERRIBLE MECHANICS!
>>44532328
Are you one of those ignorant faggots who mix up Raise Dead and Animate Dead spells and call people who have been restored to life (as opposed to undeath) "zombies"?
>>44531761
What if you apply AC energy to them?
>>44531761
Because damage types used to not exist, and when they were created they were designed poorly.
>>44541237
Bitch just needs to not play 3.5 anymore
>>44534248
bondage mummies when?
>>445340
Can necromancers be good though?
>>44542119
Now.
>>44531761
DEPENDS
ON
THE
SETTING
It's merely a standard now because of the still influential cosmology of the Planescape campaign setting. If your ass doesn't like the concept of the positive and negative planes and how they fuck with magic then change that shit. It's only a gun to a DM's head when they don't have the initiative to do something else.
