Logan, Twin spell only works on single target spells. Clearly this is an AOE with a range as far as youtube signals go. As a DM i would totally rule that this was an abuse of metamagic smh But seriously I love your episodes!
@spacerbreaker
5 жыл бұрын
Happy holi-... I mean Merry Christmas
@ArabicYeti
5 жыл бұрын
What did the Necromancer do to fix his mid-life crisis? He raised a family!
@S71xx
5 жыл бұрын
Mind if I use that in my next dnd session? It would fit my chaotic neutral overly cheerful necromancer to a t.
@gandradd698
5 жыл бұрын
you're a fucking legend sir! xD i'm dying... help...lmao
@stain1095
3 жыл бұрын
Your not wrong.
@Cellbit.
3 жыл бұрын
@@gandradd698 oh no
@getoffyoubassandletsfish8565
3 жыл бұрын
🏆
@raver797
5 жыл бұрын
I'm going to play a nice little wizard, 20 sessions later, "with my undead army I'll rule the world"
@TardisPilot2004
5 жыл бұрын
Raver7 try 20 minutes. I made a wizard, after 20 minutes of play I became a necromancer.
@helium-379
5 жыл бұрын
Or start a skeleton night club.
@Phelan666
5 жыл бұрын
@@TardisPilot2004 You went straight for the bone zone?
@gandradd698
5 жыл бұрын
Brah LOL
@sqocks8254
5 жыл бұрын
*_REPAIR FOR SKELETON WAR_*
@caolanochearnaigh9804
3 жыл бұрын
My character is a necromancer, but she's Neutral Good... She raises the dead to kill those who would do harm to others, heals anyone hurt by evildoers, and she has a soft spot for children- she'll even go so far as to comfort them when they're sad or scared, and she'll sometimes take in orphans to train under her wing. Literally- she's a wereraven. She's basically a goth girl, but on the next level. Her name? Jade Shadowborn. She's sassy as all hell- she's got 6 levels in Bard just for Vicious Mockery. Her favorite insult is when someone does something wrong- They usually say, "Sorry, I did the wrong thing!" And she responds with, "No, [X] years ago your mother gave birth to the wrong thing!" That one stings. But not as much as the Chill Touch spell! She's a 10th level Wizard for her necromancy skills, and she always makes sure that the people she raises make it back to their graves to rest. That's the extent of my character. I'm thinking of getting 5 levels in Way of the Shadow Monk... What do you guys think?)
@Top_Nep
5 жыл бұрын
I once played a necromancer who's ideal was that you must fight evil with greater evil, and would often be wretched between his dark hunger for power and his own light of Justice, often confused and conflicted with himself. (Xd it's midnight yo)
@lachlanmeijer8706
3 жыл бұрын
I love all the magic art
@Asadarion
5 жыл бұрын
such a different video from the others you make... its poetic good job
@larzanthony2275
5 жыл бұрын
Nicely edited. I can see that you put a lot of work into your video.
@MinscFromBaldursGate92
Жыл бұрын
Nagash liked the video.
@jeniskindof
5 ай бұрын
"I'm not a necromancer I'm just a healer who doesn't know when to give up"
@johnpayne5590
4 жыл бұрын
Everybody gangsta til the bodys start dancin
@halfofapicture
3 жыл бұрын
"A necromancer, sometimes referred to as... black magician" - Runesmith 2018
@exile5678
5 жыл бұрын
Got a character that studies necromancy because he wants to bring his mom and dad back to life then kill the person that thought it right to kell them
@pierre-philipper.-gauthier2146
Жыл бұрын
« Necromancers are evil and live in the shadows » Me creating a multiclassed bard/necromancer (necrobarder 🤓) goblin who sings in a band made up of skeletons and zombies called Fizzlebones and his merry corpse-panions 🥳
@wolfyboy
5 жыл бұрын
i wanna make a character who practises necromancy to keep his friends and loved ones from dying. that leaves several ways for the character to evolve.
@fordprefect5967
4 жыл бұрын
Do abjuration next!
@jehovasabettor9080
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancer is just a very late healer.
@ToryuMau
5 жыл бұрын
... "Retroactive Cleric" >)X^D
@moriskurth628
5 жыл бұрын
"We've lost the patient! He's dead." [Rolls up sleeves] "LIKE HELL HE IS!"
@biomodified
5 жыл бұрын
@@moriskurth628 my necromancers are always doctors so this resonates with me. Here is my thumbs up 👍.
@agsilverradio2225
5 жыл бұрын
L.o.l.🤣
@Thememester439
5 жыл бұрын
"We lost the patient doctor." "Welp, I didn't get my medical license revoked for nothing!"
@cheeseyjrdude4751
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite characters was a necromancer businessman. Sold zombies and skeletons as maids, farmhands, etc; raised fireflies from the dead and put them in jars to make lights; communed with demons and other beings haunting places, learned what they needed to free them into our realm, and proceeded to destroy what I could and toss the rest in the ocean. Oh, and I had a skeletal snake familiar I used as a cane.
@omlo9093
5 жыл бұрын
THAT'S what I'm talkin' 'bout! A bit more creative than the "good necromancer" IMHO.
@cheeseyjrdude4751
5 жыл бұрын
@@omlo9093 thanks man. Tbh though the idea originally started as a good necromancer but then I decided I wanted to buy fancy shit
@geoffreyprecht2410
5 жыл бұрын
This is such a creative spin on necromancy! I think my party might have to run into an NPC like this some time soon.
@cheeseyjrdude4751
5 жыл бұрын
@@geoffreyprecht2410 sweet! If your group does rub into them, lemme know how it goes or if you need any ideas for it.
@mattwebi
5 жыл бұрын
My party’s Necromancer has a history of scavenging battlefields for new minions which resulted in him having to kill soldiers that were returning to retrieve the dead. There are characters who were on either side of the conflict in the party as well.
@partydean17
5 жыл бұрын
One of the things I never understood was why enchantment, the school of manipulating, controlling, and destroying someone own will is not seen as evil but necromancy, manipulating inanimate corpses is evil... (if the spell doesn't disturb the passed soul)
@kerillian3275
5 жыл бұрын
Because people don't want to see the corpse of their sister, father, children... used. And what is Enchantemebt? It doesn't exist. A magic that can manipulate our emotion and will? What a strange idea. Can they also change your memory?!? Ahaha...
@beargrills3508
5 жыл бұрын
Also conjuration, summoning planar entities (*including fiends*) with their own agenda to the mortal plane, binding them to your will and then risking them going haywire and killing everybody, is perfectly fine, but creating an evil creature such as an undead from scratch using necromancy is evil. Actually this makes me wonder whether summoning an undead entity from the shadowfell would be conjuration or necromancy.
@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
5 жыл бұрын
This so much
@matteussilvestre8583
5 жыл бұрын
I guess because depending on the lore Necromancy does affect the soul. I remember that in Skyrim most raised undead say things like "Thank you" and "Free at last" when killed (for the 2nd time).
@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
5 жыл бұрын
@@matteussilvestre8583 How is literal mindrape any better tho
@Kopenich
5 жыл бұрын
"Not all Necromancers are evil" Thank you! I'm playing a true neutral necromancer in a planescape wizard game for 5e and my entire plan for the game is to just constantly subvert the player's expectations of a Necromancer. "I won't allow the Necromancer to join us at the lodge, he can't be trusted" *Necromancer willingly offers his arm to be severed to avoid being corrupted by somethingm then is the only one to save the party from being trapped in the Astral Sea* "I just want to study life magic guys, leave me alone"
@neenm4299
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancers are pretty nice once you get to know them. A bit goth for some but cool anyway
@saelethil
5 жыл бұрын
Trying the same, but with Neutral Good.
@ItsDomke
5 жыл бұрын
When I made my character, I did so with Anakin Skywalker in mind. I had a fiance whose life was threatened by some illness, so I began to learn magic to try to prevent her death. I was seduced into the art of necromancy when my fiance's condition worsened. There was no way to prevent her death, but perhaps I could bring her back from the dead. During my studies, I came across a genie which granted my wish of having her back from the dead. As you may well know, it wasn't really as I had wanted. She was a mindless husk of what she once was. She did not long for deep thought and discussion. She did not want to enjoy my company. She only wanted to see my insides on the outside. I decided that I could somehow fix this. Deeper into the necromancy rabbit hole I went. I don't think of myself as an "evil" necromancer. More of a chaotic neutral. This magic is merely a means to an end, and I by no means have any ill intentions.
@BJReolon
5 жыл бұрын
true neutral necromancers are no subversive, just not so meh as a evil one now a lawful good necromancer, thats hard to do
@minarie2865
5 жыл бұрын
I'm going to play a Neutral Good Necromancer soon :D She basically never had friends since her parents never allowed her to go outside due to her "delicate constitution". So she read every book she could find. Later in Mage-College all the other kids avoided her, because of her weirdness hence her lack of social skills. So she started to study every sort of magic and stumbled upon Necromancy. Based on that knowledge she raised the dead, so at last she can have friends that never ever leave her.
@twistedblast5253
5 жыл бұрын
These videos are so educational!My parents didn't abandon me,it was just an illusion!Now I can just raise new ones from the local graveyard!
@Uselesssecondvowel
5 жыл бұрын
Basically Luna from a card game called Shadoverse
@Scarletraven87
4 жыл бұрын
That is LITERALLY Master Sasori
@MerryMaddMen
5 жыл бұрын
Inspired by Puffin Forest "I am NOT chaotic evil" "You're a necromancer. You have a zombie slave you use for triggering traps and want to revive more zombies for slave labour" "First of all, this is the medieval era, slavery is legal. 2nd of all, zombies have high con, and I'm going to use these zombie slaves to sell to others so farms can get more work done and more structure is built. 3rd, stereotyping much?"
@slothfulslime5066
5 жыл бұрын
ChangelingTale the commenter True, also zombies don’t retain their soul and/or sentience. Plus they most likely don’t even feel pain due to being undead.
@CitizenCain1
4 жыл бұрын
Legal =/= good.
@Randomdudefromtheinternet
4 жыл бұрын
As long as undead are kept tame, they're as useful as golems (constructs, made from flesh)
@williamwontiam3166
3 жыл бұрын
@@CitizenCain1 yeah, but I’d say that it doesn’t make him chaotic.
@alecLogan
2 жыл бұрын
@@CitizenCain1 Illegal =/= bad. Just “frowned upon from the general direction of Law.”
@All4Tanuki
5 жыл бұрын
Can't spell "necromancer" without "romance" 😘😘😘
@oakclarke3976
5 жыл бұрын
necromancers are those who romance necks.
@MyaTimes4
5 жыл бұрын
To the bone zone
@patrickpol6156
5 жыл бұрын
just like vamps
@burning_mat5307
3 жыл бұрын
Bone wizards
@TaosoftheVoid
3 жыл бұрын
Comment, name, and picture are all cursed? Well, you've earned a like!
@darkqueenfenrisulfr
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancy is only forbidden cause the people on power fear the common folk making armies against them. Enchanting is not forbidden cause they use it on their political plans and plots
@knightofsvea604
5 жыл бұрын
I think its just forbiden because its not in the livings intrest to have their dead relativs walking around xD
@bleach-kun
5 жыл бұрын
"Hey grandma, lookin extra dead today" "Grauhahagaaaah...." "Heh heh heh, love you too grandma"
@thesecutor4625
5 жыл бұрын
I think another reason is because it is seen as right to put someone to rest and be undisturbed, but necromancers need corpses, so it’s like back when doctors would pay graverobbers to get corpses so that they could help further things by teaching their students how to operate on a body, because it turns into a matter of perspective.
@Bob-lr2xp
5 жыл бұрын
I think people in power are far more capable of raising an army of dead than a farmer.
@anduro7448
5 жыл бұрын
Intresting perspective
@Bolderox
5 жыл бұрын
still am of the belief you can use necromancy for "good". the magic defines itself as "manipulating life energy" but healing magic does the same, and that is seen as "good" but necromancy is by and large seen as "evil"
@CommanderM117
5 жыл бұрын
agreed manipulation of the mind is by it very nature a tool to control other so why is enchantment not included as Evil and i mostly play mind controllers all the time.
@bookworm3696
5 жыл бұрын
and yet the healing spells are evocation.
@zerozeras4723
5 жыл бұрын
Healing was always just a form of Necromancy
@ChitenBugMan
5 жыл бұрын
Frankly healing should be necromancy.
@companyoflosers
5 жыл бұрын
@@bookworm3696 Any spell that brings someone back after they were killed and spare the dying are all necromancy. The only reason healing spells aren't is because you don't need to manipulate life energy to seal a wound. You aren't strengthening or restoring their life force, you are repairing the shell that contains it. For those reasons healing spells should probably be considered transmutation. You are manipulating the matter of the human body.
@alessandroselicati5393
5 жыл бұрын
I m currently playing my first campaign, and i m playing a necromancer. He s neutral good, and sees necromancy as a way to understand life and death. He was saved by a necromancer sa a child, and she taught him magic. He sees using the dead as a way to save lives, as in:"Why sending people to die in a war when we could raise a graveyard?" I worked around the evil implications of creating undead by not making them souls i take forcefully from the afterlife, but lost fragments of souls stuck in the material plane. After they help me in my quests, i help them cross to the other side
@alessandroselicati5393
5 жыл бұрын
Of course, during his journey the power could corrupt him, but who knows
@alessandroselicati5393
5 жыл бұрын
OrangeManBad He doesn't really care about balance. It s more of a I want to save as many lives as possible. He thinks that Necromancy is a powerful tool that can be used for good. He s also pretty young, so maybe he doesn't really understand the gravity of his type of magic. I told my DM to do whatever he wishes in terms of the morality of necromancy and corrupting power
@ukaszMarianszki
5 жыл бұрын
Btw undead are never the original souls, just you recycling the corpse
@Randomdudefromtheinternet
2 жыл бұрын
I mean, necromancy is literally the study and manipulation of life and death. And according to the lore, what fuels an undead is the residual “soul energy” called animus, making it technically not evil, just extremely taboo (just like how physicians were prohibited from studying cadavers to learn anatomy)
@HeTaLiA152
5 жыл бұрын
Glory to glitch the Warforged necromancer who just wants forever friends
@frankieramos1748
5 жыл бұрын
Girlol oh god that’s adorable
@hmcloud8487
5 жыл бұрын
I play it as a dog bringing a dead bird to it´s owner "Look what I got you master!"
@bobfox3058
5 жыл бұрын
I’m currently playing playing a Necromancer right now, but even though they are good in will, many see his magic as evil, so I’m currently on the run with my party.
@ArcaneFuror
5 жыл бұрын
Im currently playing one right now. Using both total concealing clothing, masks, basic perfumes, and training with the creatures. Playing a good act to pass them off as mute helpers/minions
@ceoofwarcrimes4600
5 жыл бұрын
I used to play a necromancer whose whole goal was to use his magic to prevent the living from being overrun by an army of the dead brought back by an even more powerful necromancer however despite doing this he was often run out of towns and shunned til one day he saved a single village on the outskirts of a small kingdom and was finally seen as good albeit in one insignificant village that barely operated on it's own but even with this I was still unable to stop the final necromancer just slow him down till the village and party escaped and barely escaped death myself
@TheFirstLanx
5 жыл бұрын
I'm playing one in ToA but so far I'm too low level to do anything more provocative than animate a hummingbird (it died of unrelated causes). I get some weird looks, but for the most part people haven't objected strongly.
@colehowden1984
5 жыл бұрын
According to D&D lore undead are evil by nature because they are animated using Negative Plane Energy, which comes from the evil planes. However, there used to be another creature type called deathless which were the same as undead except they were animated by Positive Plane Energy and as a result were good (or at the very least non-evil) aligned. This is why in the Forgotten Realms an archlich is a non-evil alignment.
@theredrighthandproductions
5 жыл бұрын
Also the Undying Court of Aerendal in Eberron
@Sara3346
5 жыл бұрын
....why is it more difficult to use positve enegry thoug, the negative planes don't seem any closer than the positive ones to the material.
@dragonheart1236
5 жыл бұрын
@@Sara3346 maybe the negative plane is closer to the plane of the dead?
@IrvingIV
4 жыл бұрын
@@Sara3346 Maybe the connection to the positive plane was overused and damaged in the process, so while it repairs itself it's far easier or far safer for necromancers to channel the negative plane?
@witchBoi_Connor
4 жыл бұрын
DragonHeart 12 it kind of is, seeing as the Raven Queen is somewhere in the Shadowfell, and that’s the in-between for the negative plane and the material plane.
@rossnorris2351
5 жыл бұрын
I like his take on Necromancy, It's great to finally hear someone, besides myself and my current group, say Necromancers "tend" to be evil and not Necromancers ARE evil. The second sentiment annoys me it never acknowledges the few souls who are strong willed enough or compassionate enough to resist the pull of the selfish desire to just become the Lord of the Undead and eat the living. Thank You Runesmith. You have just become one of my favorite if not my favorite D&D channel on that statement alone.
@jason-nm2gy
5 жыл бұрын
Hey so how come a pure necromancer can't learn resurrection but some fucker with a lute or tree hobo can even though it says it's a necromancy spell?
@sanddry738
5 жыл бұрын
Jason Wizards in general seem to be barred from anything healing related. So even though it should be something necromancers can cast, it seems to only be available to clerics, druids, bards, etc.
@jason-nm2gy
5 жыл бұрын
@@sanddry738 yep and i absolutely hate this so i plan on making a necromancer who enter the school thinking he can revive his dead family and find out only clerics and bards can and get mad and take over the world with zombies out of anger or he could pay a cleric or bard to do it for him but who would help a known necromancer?
@sanddry738
5 жыл бұрын
Jason Depends in context once again. A domain of death cleric would have the power to revive and they’re similar to necromancers so there’s one aspect if you want to focus more on necromancy and healing. Also some societies may be built around being more neutral towards undead. Perhaps where a Lich or other powerful undead resides.
@cianoakheart5132
5 жыл бұрын
At least in the case of D&D, the term “Diabolist” is explicitly *not* a synonym for necromancer. Cavorting with devils rarely has anything to do with undead at all.
@evannibbe9375
4 жыл бұрын
Cian Oakheart Yeah, those are all Conjuration spells with only one applicable Divination spell: Contact other plane.
@maynardz03
5 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who would summon a skeleton to see if they could eat something? like could they eat a hot pocket, or would it just fall out?
@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
5 жыл бұрын
I honestly wish necromancy wasn't inherently evil sometimes. Like, this form of magic is just that, magic, the challenge it provides on its own should be enough but nooo of course you can't summon thralls to do good... Rant aside, great vid
@sanddry738
5 жыл бұрын
Mikhail The Greatest Dragon I feel it can also heavily depend on the DM on how it’s viewed. I’m sure if someone spoke out and mentioned how resurrection is necromancy then many townsfolk would become uncomfortable or try to ignore it. Reminds me of a video by AJpickett in one of his wizard ones where he says that many wizards probably dabble in necromancy way more then they let on. After all, they do live such long lives.
@NikushimiZERO
5 жыл бұрын
1:26 so THAT'S how the fighter carries all those health potions! Seriously, dude has a shit ton of potions on him xD Lol
@lindarkknight4044
5 жыл бұрын
I had a necromancer who used it to create friends. Conner was her best friend and the name of whatever the most powerful undead at the time she could raise.
@RheaMainz
5 жыл бұрын
She's _cuuute_
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
4 жыл бұрын
Not all necromancers are evil, huh? *The Millennial King wants to know your location…* *… to thank you for your understanding*
@ethanotoroculus1060
5 жыл бұрын
One of the best ideas I've ever created for a fantastical creature is a cicada that is capable of reanimating it's own shed exoskeletons, essentially creating an army of itself. Since their shed shells are technically still skeletons, this would fall under reanimated skeletons, making it justified in the established D&D universe.
@eldritchexploited5462
4 жыл бұрын
This is basically the pokemon shedinja
@evannibbe9375
4 жыл бұрын
Until Fireball happens.
@ethanotoroculus1060
4 жыл бұрын
@@evannibbe9375 Such is the natural way, unfortunately. Where there is strategy, counterstrategy follows close behind.
@clarkside4493
5 жыл бұрын
See! YOU get Necromancy! It's easily the most well rounded school of magic in 5th edition D&D and its become one of my favorites.
@sarahdale9968
5 жыл бұрын
I am playing a Necromancer "Hitman" in Dragon Heist right now. I have played many, many necromancers before, both super cliche and others trying to defy the stereotypes. But this one, I am having such a blast. He's just a killer for hire that one day stumbled upon a spellbook and just so happened to have a knack for magical studies. It was his practical mind that pushed him to specialize in necromancy.
@sarahdale9968
5 жыл бұрын
To be fair though, we all are playing arcane...ish...spellcasters. Which is nice
@jordanfleming7022
4 жыл бұрын
Client: You need to confirm that you have killed our target. Necro: Alright, bring him in. *Literal corpse shambles into room* Client: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!
@tear4442
3 жыл бұрын
You just gotta have your skeleton buddies do the dirty work, then you walk in the room once it's done and make more skeleton buddies :) easy money
@cueball6969
2 жыл бұрын
I find it ironic that Necromancy is seen as evil when, in a way, accepted spells like charm, command and suggestion are moreso about enslavement of the mind than Necromancy is. Necromancy uses the remnants of the souls (bodies) that have since moved on, there is no enslavement of the soul or mind if there is no soul or mind
@Eyerleth
5 жыл бұрын
"Hi, I'm NecroLarry, and I'm here to put the 'romance' back in 'necromancer'."
@dankim1573
5 жыл бұрын
Half of runesmith vids: super serious voice Other half of runemsith vids: funny haha comedian vids
@MrFlamingJester
5 жыл бұрын
Had a player who had a pretty good reason to be a good necromancer. His character used necromancy because he felt that using those already dead to fight and defend was far better than risking anyone still alive.
@kjellgunnartrimbo-forthun6052
5 жыл бұрын
Lol, because the videos came out at the same time, my notification showed illusion, and when I pulled my notifications tab, it magically turned into necromancy
@diegoacosta8550
5 жыл бұрын
same
@BobSmith-cg2ek
5 жыл бұрын
One could say it was an "Illusion!"
@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
3 жыл бұрын
Parents: Raising a family is hard work! Necromancer: Not if they are buried together!
@robertday2996
5 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to play a good aligned necromancer that finds ways around some of the darker components for his spells. "Yes I know it says I need to sacrifice a virgin but a fertilized chicken egg technically works too."
@milesmatheson1142
Жыл бұрын
I love this.
@dragonheart1236
5 жыл бұрын
If you wanna talk about an inherently evil magic school, just take a look at Enchanting
@حَسن-م3ه9ظ
3 жыл бұрын
Necromancy:You rip away people from their afterlife just so that they can be your personal slaves. Enchantment:You stop people from wanting to kill you
@dragonheart1236
3 жыл бұрын
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ necromancy: you put useless corpses to good use Enchantment: you use otherworldly forces to take control of someone's mind, completely erasing their free will in order to fit your whim.
@حَسن-م3ه9ظ
3 жыл бұрын
@@dragonheart1236 1-using the souls of innocent of people... 2-Otherworldly forces? You mean magic?
@dragonheart1236
3 жыл бұрын
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ if you can get overly specific with your descriptions to the point of singling out spells, so can I
@حَسن-م3ه9ظ
3 жыл бұрын
@@dragonheart1236 enslaving the dead is a common theme of necromancy spells Most enchantment spells can reasonably be used for self defense (Mind Sliver, Calm emotions, Hex, vicious mockery, Animal Friendship, etc) or straight up help people (Heroism, bless)
@rom148
5 жыл бұрын
I think its stupid how there is no necromancer subclass for warlock, honestly a warlock is best fit for necromancy yet it seems its the only class that cant actually do anything relating to it, I had a player try to be a warlock necromancer so we tried designing a necromancer subclass but i don't think its the same as having it be in the base game...
@lucastanner2474
5 жыл бұрын
RomBomb I mean, the Undying subclass has a bunch of undead synergy with all that unlife and such Edit: Okay I just went and looked it over, and it has just the one ability about redirecting hostile undead, so you do make a fair point
@beau3646
5 жыл бұрын
It’s a balancing issues. Warlocks get spells back based on short rest. Based on how one does short rest (say just an hour of light activity) as a warlock necromancer you undead army basically will be made in less than a week
@krowodom5719
5 жыл бұрын
• Warlock Archetype: Undead • The spells false life and ray of sickness are added to the warlock spell list for you • You know spare the dying • You repel attacks by undead • The spells feign death and speak with dead are added to the warlock spell list for you • 1/day you heal 1d8 + Con mod hp when you cast spare the dying or pass a death save • The spells aura of life and death ward are added to the warlock spell list for you • The spells contagion and legend lore are added to the warlock spell list for you • You age slowly and you don't need to sleep, eat, drink, or breathe • 1/rest you can heal 1d8 + level hp as a bonus action Also when you heal with the ability you can reatatch limbs and other parts choped off. Seems lije a decent necromancer 2 me.
@Necroskull388
5 жыл бұрын
They can get Create Undead for their 6th level Mystic Arcanum, but yeah. Kinda blows. I wish Undying had a once per long rest class ability that lets you raise undead or something like that.
@krowodom5719
5 жыл бұрын
@@Necroskull388 same
@jgr7487
5 жыл бұрын
I houseruled that Cure & Inflict wounds are the same spell (under the Necromancy school) in my table: you either give life force or you pull it
@jgr7487
5 жыл бұрын
and now Necromancy is the ONLY Wizard School to be able to heal!
@ERBanmech
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve done something different for this in my homebrew setting. In my setting humans have picked up necromantic practices due to their incredibly short lifespans compared to other races, it is considered a great honor to serve someone beyond death for both the servant and the master and is usually rewarded with resurrection once their charge is complete. Most undead in my setting aren’t mindless, they are more like their still living selves having personality and are capable of making decisions themselves if instructed to do so the humans use a large undead horde called the Eternal Agis to defend their country. I personally like this change because it gives humans a culture and interesting traits unlike being “adaptable” like the books say. It also de-stigmatizes necromancy allowing for the caster to be good or evil, not the magic.
@futuza
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite characters to play was a naive necromancer soreceress girl. Her grandpa, an elven lich, raised her after he killed her dad (for going against his wishes and elloping with a filthy human woman). She grew up in a tomb filled with undead thinking it was normal, but during her rebellious teenage years wanted to become a famous bard so she left home and joined a group of adventurers as an inspiring bard. She would tragically misunderstand cultural expectations about necromancy, and often get the party in trouble because of her family's traditions.
@pinkpuff8562
5 жыл бұрын
Time to play a CG necromancer with the bubblies and friendliest personality you’ve ever encountered.
@Bugbite0656
5 жыл бұрын
Session Zero: My player "alright my character is going to be a necromancer." Me "alright is he going to be evil or neutral? " "Nah, hes going to be good aligned and people who are scared of necromancy are just superstitious. " "Oook... so what's your characters motivation in this campaign? " "He wants to become immortal" "That sounds pretty evil."
@JordanCrombie
5 жыл бұрын
You're implying that desiring immortality is inherently evil? If he's willing to gut a bunch of human sacrifices and rend souls from the innocent to accomplish this - sure. But what if he just acknowledges that within a mortal lifespan, completing all the research he wants to do is impossible. Therefore he wants to circumvent that mortality problem, ethically if possible? His research may even be for the betterment of all, finding countermeasures for undead popping up and causing problems, ways of lifting curses inflicted with Necromancy or generally contributing to the arcane knowledge of the world? I think the search for immortality can be handled without devolving into moustache twirling villainy. That being said, my confidence in the average player, ever jaded by horror stories of all varieties, leads me to believe that such is often unlikely.
@edcellwarrior
5 жыл бұрын
LovelyLunarLunacy Well said. People love to pretend that most issues and D&D are black-and-white, when in reality most of them aren’t that straightforward. In a game where killing could be justified as a “good” act, it’s hard to assign “evil” or “good” to anything without having the entire backstory.
@Bugbite0656
5 жыл бұрын
Basically his exact reasoning. He said his character believes there is a way to accomplish this without becoming a lich or making a deal with a diety or demon. He also kept putting skeletons he summoned into his bag of holding, and once a big fight broke out he dumped 20 uncontrolled skeletons out of his bag and misty stepped away.
@JordanCrombie
5 жыл бұрын
@@Bugbite0656 For the skeletons, I'd think logically there'd be issue with that. I find it difficult to believe a person could chuck twenty skeletons out of the small two foot opening of a bag in 5-6 seconds. It'd likely be one or two at a time, on adjacent tiles, as an action. Which would also lead to bad guys getting a fairly big grin out of AOE opportunities. Being uncontrolled, this likely means that depending on proximity to enemies or allies, it could backfire spectacularly. Even if outright immortality is too difficult to attain by that method, Druids at high levels get their lifespans lengthened extensively. It is possible an arcane caster might wish to study such a development to replicate it. The transmutation focuses Wizard has their nifty little stone which, whilst not extending life, prevents the effects of ageing. There are a number of things that might be pertinent to gaining an understanding of immortality, whilst not being immortality, that may aid in achieving it without resorting to devious means.
@beargrills3508
5 жыл бұрын
@@JordanCrombie it's a shame people often dismiss clone when talking about immortality and lichdom and stuff like that. Like, it's literally the morally acceptable way to obtain immortality since you only need a diamond, a coffin and a little bit of your *own* flesh, rather than someone else's soul *and* you can choose to make your clone a younger version of yourself. It's fucking incredible that everyone neglects this, if you are a necromancer powerful enough to be a lich and cast the 9th level power word kill you are also powerful enough to make clones for days for you, your entire party and even that one npc you really like if you can convince them to give you their flesh which is the only iffy part of the process.
@Atlas-pn6jv
3 жыл бұрын
I had a bard that multiclassed as a wizard, got into necromancy, and invented "death metal."
@goblin4714
5 жыл бұрын
Diabolists and Occultists are VERY different things. "Black magician" is usually a really overarching term so Necromancer does technically fit under that.
@glitchedred3809
5 жыл бұрын
this video came out a couple hours after i started searching for information on necromancy for a player im campaigning with. tahnks a bunch and merry chrisxmas
@devileanblack
5 жыл бұрын
Master both necromancy and blood magic so the body is not wasted at all. Reuse, reanimate, recycle.
@arandomzoomer4837
5 жыл бұрын
It's multiclass time.
@william5700
5 жыл бұрын
Love the video! But a Necromancer and a a Diaolist are not the same thing
@nodustollens9183
5 жыл бұрын
underrated channel
@00784865
5 жыл бұрын
The 3 Rs of necromancy: Reuse,Recycle,Reanimate.
@justyouraveragemutantblood2185
5 жыл бұрын
I have a necromancer character, she’s a sweetheart. Always willing to help those in need. Has this mentality of “there is no evil magic just evil people” which is why she learned necromancy.
@justinsmith9006
5 жыл бұрын
creating undead is not evil if the soul in question wanted to become one, forcing undead on someone is evil as is changing someone into an animal forever.
@Sara3346
5 жыл бұрын
or vice versa with the last poitn if the last unicorn is anything to go by?
@Randomdudefromtheinternet
4 жыл бұрын
If you think about it, necromancy is quite similar to modern medicine (blood transfusions, organ transplants, surgeries, temporarily make someone clinically death, grafting, etc.) Would be nice to see that stuff here. Edit: Also, someone made a nice argument about reclassifying healing spells to the transmutation school, since you're manipulating the body for mending it.
@holyflame2
Жыл бұрын
I really love the idea of a Necromancer or anything related to darkness fighting for good. There's nothing like fighting a horde of monsters and it's boss with your very own army of darkness.
@nunull6427
3 жыл бұрын
One of my pcs eventually started making an undead army, just left em in a shed in their town. They're still there, for now.
@devileanblack
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancers are misunderstood. They want to raise a family too. It is just difficult to find a whole dead family together to raise.
@michaelkelligan7931
5 жыл бұрын
The Necromantic kit,Undead Master has access to the school of enchantment /charm its found in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd ed. "The Complete Book of Necromancers" by Steve Kurtz circa 1995 an excellent source book for kits,spells and magic items as well as general background information! 💀💀💀
@yes9691
5 жыл бұрын
Me *edgy as fug * : *drinks boiling water during video* hell yes boi
@boaboy8052
5 жыл бұрын
Q&A- Did you ever watch the 80s Dungeons & Dragons cartoons and do you think that Uni's poop is rainbow colored🤔🤔🤔 #sopskin
@AdamKaiser1
5 жыл бұрын
This is going to help when I make my Half-Orc Wizard
@patrickivthrowaway7266
5 жыл бұрын
Description says this video is about illusion. Really awesome video though. Nice job!
@Runesmith
5 жыл бұрын
fixed, thanks
@OneColdRepublican
5 жыл бұрын
Is no one going comment on the wholesome Necromancer hugging her skeleton buddy? Look how happy she is.
@iamnobody1734
5 жыл бұрын
"I'm not inherently evil, I'm just... Practical."
@megapokekid1
3 жыл бұрын
Necromancy spares the dieing or you could just resurrect them
@redtsun67
5 жыл бұрын
i just like building an undead army and fucking around making them do wacky stuff. One time I lit a zombie on fire and made him run into a bar just because.
@rotatingdisc-479
5 жыл бұрын
Hottest take I've had all day: Healing spells should be necromancy.
@mizt_strider8003
5 жыл бұрын
In 5e, they are.
@rotatingdisc-479
5 жыл бұрын
Most of them are Evocation. You've got stuff like false life on Necromancy, but stuff like the spell _literally called heal_ is Evocation.
@auroralraconteur3312
5 жыл бұрын
Some healing spells are necromancy, some transmutation, some evocation. it all comes down to the spell details, really. How a spell heals you is what determines it's school. Are they transmuting your flesh to make it heal faster? are they pulling you from the brink of death with a little extra health to boot? are they summoning positive energies from nothing with a single word? when it comes down to it, "healing" is a pretty broad term, and limiting it to one school is just harmful for the game.
@auroralraconteur3312
5 жыл бұрын
oh- something I forgot about too. I think every Resurrection based spell is Necromancy. For obvious reasons, but even Clerics and Druids regularly practice Necromancy at a high enough level.
@matteussilvestre8583
5 жыл бұрын
Yuna from Final Fantasy X is just a Lawful Good Necromancer. *Change my mind.*
@kaarpiv375
5 жыл бұрын
Nahnahnah... It's "White" Magic. It can't be evil. Besides, necromancy goes against the teachings of Yevon. Naturally, it means those filthy Al Bheds are masters of it.
@jakubholis3934
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancy > Mother always said to make new friends
@onesaltydoge3105
5 жыл бұрын
The 20 people who disliked this are humans
@joannejoestar91
5 жыл бұрын
I'm currently playing an Eladrin Necromancer who comes from a city in Fey wilds where necromancy is used to make up for the low birth rate by having skeletons preform manual labor. As a result of all the skeleton farmers and such they produce an over abundance of food. Knowing that there are settlements in the material plane (I'm still learning my lore so I'm not sure of the correct term)that suffer from famine, the leaders of the city occasionally sends out scouts to locate settlements who may be suffering from famine so that they can send them food. This is also an opportunity for members of the city to learn and develop their skills. My character is one of those scouts. Her people strongly believe that the soul and the body are two separate things, thus as long as one does not interfere with soul of the departed, animating a corpse is the same as any kind of magic and is seen as normal and beneficial depending on how you use the corpse. I consider her neutral good as she does take into consideration how others view Necromancy and takes care not to raise the dead in public and wouldn't use city graveyards as a resource, or use Necromancy that manipulates the soul.
@leafgreenbeast
5 жыл бұрын
another name for a necromancer is a "Malconvoker". doesnt come off as overtly evil, which is helpful for well-intentioned PCs
@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149
5 жыл бұрын
Truly a Christmas-y video.
@lomion200
5 жыл бұрын
cant a man just raise a family in peace?
@maddoxWolfe
4 жыл бұрын
0:57 Rascit
@cpa4able
5 жыл бұрын
*MUH NECRHOMAENCY AINT A GATEWAY DRUG*
@epicface1199
5 жыл бұрын
Edge wizards in a nutshell
@ender_lord1202
5 жыл бұрын
two videos? I think I need a necromancer because I just died!
@Eric4bz
9 ай бұрын
"What do you mean you can't raise a corpse? I thought you majored in necromancy!" Yes, I did! Practiced for three years and have it here, written and signed diploma to prove it!" "Master class graduate... Neck Romancer...? Damn bards..."
@BS-se4yg
5 жыл бұрын
Me to my DM: dude, believe me. I'm not gonna be evil just because I'm a necromancer. It's just for lore. Look, it will be fine, I will be cool with the party *20 levels later* Party: ok, Bruno. It's your time to patrol while we sleep Me: yeah, guys. Don't worry, I have your back........ Ok, I kill them all I raise their corpses DM: what? Me: nat 20..... Now I will use them to conquer the world
@Ephringael
5 жыл бұрын
GM: Wonderful, you critically strike one of them with your dagger. Since you never even bothered to get a magic one, since you're a spellcaster... you do 2d4 damage plus your -1 for you strength dumpstat. They all wake up. Just cast cloudkill man. You don't need to roll.
@Necroskull388
5 жыл бұрын
DM: Oh, how unexpected, a party of level 20 paladins shows up, kills you, and casts true resurrection on the fallen party members. Wow, it's amazing how convenient that was considering the timing. Incredible.
@TheShubLub
5 жыл бұрын
Except that in real life you cannot talk to the Dead.
@Silverwind87
Жыл бұрын
The good guy necromancer trying to be a good friend: "Hey man, what's wrong?" "I dropped my hot dog." "Want me to resurrect it?" "What?"
@tyrantofcans465
5 жыл бұрын
Playing a Chaotic Good Kenku Necromancer. The little jabber just wants to take all the forbidden knowledge and either burn it or use it for good ends. Oh, and because he multi-classed into monk he beats any zombie or skeleton that gets out of line by hurting the living. He's pretty nice, and it helps that he uses prestidigitation to cast shadow letters to show what he wants to say.
@thewanderer5506
5 жыл бұрын
This is actually very helpful because I just turned my character into a Lich
@RobertMinsk
5 жыл бұрын
Necromancers are beneficial to RP, I would use them as a GM to give a player the moment. e.g: character got ded father? Enhance a necromancer's evil by bringing him back only to be tortured. I have a character called aquatico and he got reincarnated. Good chance for the GM to show me from my previous life
@MrPF
5 жыл бұрын
One of mine favorite characters was a necromancer that wanted to educate the world on way necromancy isn't necessarily evil He was allied with a forgotten goddess of death (yes, a little bit of warlock in his back story), that was forgotten by the mortals, she didn't praise the act of dying, she was more of a friend that tried to give the people some hope that death is not the end, and are worst things in life He would never simply conjure creatures from the after life, but he would always carry a bag with bones of friends that had passed away, when he needed help, he would ask them to come to his help (there was even his old dog friend, and after every battle he would receive belly rubs, because he was a good boy) This character was able to convince about 50+ people, that he wasn't a bad person and many of them stated praying for his goddess After the end of the campaign, the goddess was now known throughout all the realms and the character spent a after life of helping fellow necromancers that prayed for the same goddess
@leyrua
8 ай бұрын
School of Enchantment: Zombie? Oh no no no, not at all! He's just horribly injured after I used Dominate Person to make him disarm traps for me. Don't worry, I would never do something as unethical as raise a CORPSE as a meat shield! I mean, if you think about it, it's really HIS fault for having such abysmal saving throws.
@sloesty
5 жыл бұрын
You could technically even play an evil necromancer and still fit in the party. I've Always liked the idea of a necromancer seeking the ability to become a lich and as such dévotes himself to the study of life and death. This person also realises how meaningless death realy is and as such doesn't care much about people when they've died, hence he uses zombies. It'd be nice to play a slightly evil, but reasonable character to join the party in his thirst for knowledge.
@Nachovyx
4 жыл бұрын
"Diabolist" is a side title for Conjurers, not Necromancers. Conjurers are THE link to the lower planes and as such have an easier time conjuring devils and demons to do their binding.
@Volvith
5 жыл бұрын
"Undead are inherently evil..." Cue 4chan story: of undead and understanding. (If you've ever wondered what a necromancer's capacity for evil can be... It's TN, and it should have been NG. And i fucking cried. TWICE. Look up the name of the story here on KZitem.)
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