#also I'm pretty sure that the only thing keeping anon restricted by race/class is a DM being too strict with RAW

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People who act like necromancy = evil and then expect their cleric to cast anything like a gentle repose/revivify to help people or preserve a body or save someone,,, smh.

There are still many alignment-locked classes and races on DnD, though, and quite a few that are unplayable because they are Always Chaotic Evil(TM). Like, I understand preferring a game system with lots of freedom for character creation, but DnD historically has not been very good about this sort of stuff for many people who wanted to do things like, for example, make a gnoll adventurer. You had to hope the DM was ok with homebrew or third-party content for that.

I'm being hyperbolic about my own tastes because I do know that historically DnD has been pretty rough about this in previous editions. I'm not actually saying dnd is a perfect game about alignments, races, or literally anything else (though i would like them to be better about it!) I have criticized it in the past, extremely loudly! Third edition in particular was incredibly bad about this because they were essentially married to the alignment system, but there's still a lot of baggage they need to modify or outright cut loose to be actually decent in fifth edition.

This is one specific aspect of the game that I do like because of my own specific tastes and acting like I'm going OH THIS GAME IS SO GOOD IT'S SUPER FREE WITH CHARACTER CREATION ON EVERYTHING EVER is weird, because I did not mention or imply anywhere that this was the case.

I am talking about the specific perception of necromancy in particular as being always taboo, always evil, always bad, with no wiggle room or interpretation for anything else, because people generally tend to bring specific biases (like the ones that result in DnD being hella restrictive, downright racist or bigoted, in other areas) to the table with them and never consider them. Trying to be like "oh but it's bad in other areas" is strange because like. I know that. The absence of criticism does not mean I am somehow unaware of it. I don't like it either. I want it to be better! I shouldn't have to spell this out to people acting like I'm saying DnD is an amazing system with no flaws because I'm talking about one specific fucking thing!