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Turning undead is the chaneling of the gods power throught a priest to disrupt a creature's conection to the Negative energy plane:
Every undead (Save Mummies) is connected to the negative energy Plane basicly it what gives the undead the power to walk after it's dead. Intelligent Undead's like Vampires and liches can Draw from the Negative Energy plane (Thta's why they have cool power like Lv Drain).
A priest is a severvant of a god, That god has a certain view on the Undead (some evil gods love undead, others detest them, same for the good gods and neutral).
Gods that hate the undead do this(Ex: Helm, lolth)
When a priest turn undead he is calling opoun his god to chanel power throught him. The higher Lv the priest is the more power can be chanaled. This power weakens (or severes) the link the undead has with the negative energy plane. So the undead flees to avoid loosing power or the god chanaled enghou power to uterly destroy the link wich kills the undead.
God who don't mind undead do this(Ex:Torm, Shar)
It's basicly the same save instead of destroying the link, the god gives to power to the priest to control this link to the negative energy plane, so the priest now commands the undead if powerful enghou or the undead flees in fear of being dominated.
The only disadvatage is a priest cannot attack or cast spell while turning undead. In the old ad&d rules the priest even had to have his holy symble in hand to turn. If he lost it to bad he lost the power to turn.
well thath the long way to explain it I guess nei?
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