[DF] Holy water seems to have no purpose

[b-dog]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I think it really depends on how you treat moral polarity in your setting. "Unholy" water as a concept though is fairly absurd, it's either blessed water by an opposed faith (as holy to them as it yours is to you) or it's an artifact of absolute evil, for which as Stone Dog points out, the traditional symbolic uses of water are inappropriate.

In my current occasional DF game, which is more Sword & Sorcery pagan than Tolkienic Christian, the enemy faith isn't absolutely evil, but merely somewhat corrupt. They have holy water, the same as everybody else, probably, that has the same effects on demons and undead. They are just merely more likely to have summoned those demons and undead in the first place.

Unholy water is listed in the Dngeon Masters guide and I think it would be fair for Evil clerics to have the same things holy clerics do.