Quote Originally Posted by Sstoopidtallkid View Post
I've always wondered why, exactly, every single Lich out there has to be evil. Intrinsically evil to the point where WotC (inventors of the LG Succubus Paladin) decided to create a good Lich, they had to create it as an entirely separate class of monster. What is so bad about them? Yes, they are undead, rotting (though a simple spell fixes that), twisted abominations that mock life, but how is that wrong? Do they actually hurt anyone by being undead? Or is this just one more in a long line of dumb alignment decisions?
Liches are created by killing two innocent people. One half your age, one double it. That's an evil act. Liches make sense. Zombies don't.

Zombies should really be(and are, in my games) just sort of constructs made out of dead bodies. They tend to kill people because the people who don't mind if the get complaints from the community at large, at least because of the smell, tend to be evil. Under this model, zombies that drop out of your control for whatever means, just stop dead and stop working, or continue doing whatever they were just doing forever, depending on how capricious I am feeling.