Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
D&D Older Editions
4E character creation
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4539872" data-attributes="member: 63763"><p>Warlock multiclassed into wizard would perhaps be the mix you are looking for. Dark Pact especially has a LOT of necrotic powers, although there are a couple of wizard ones as well.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, your character, with the multiclass into wizard, could have the following trained skills:</p><p> </p><p>Arcana, Religion, Bluff, History, and you still have another.</p><p> </p><p>The Knowledges (Arcana, Religion, especially History) can be flavoured, in part, as information you can pull from the dead. Bluff is important since your character is leading a "hidden" life.</p><p> </p><p>For your "rare" animation of undead, I think there are some conjurations for the illusionist wizard that might apply, I'm not sure. Otherwise the cleric is actually the class with the conjurations to do that [in which case a wizard multiclassed into cleric could fit your concept better].</p><p> </p><p>In either case, choice of rituals might be the bigger way to expand the idea. There are a number of divination rituals, plus some stuff like Hand of Fate, Consult Mystic Sages, etc and then there is Phantom Steed. They can easily be turned into a more necromacy based rituals, such as contacting dead spirits for the information and raising dead horses, etc. If your GM is up for it, they could even include some more gruesome material components ... perhaps making the ritual cheaper in exchange for making it more difficult to get access to the right materials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalterKovacs, post: 4539872, member: 63763"] Warlock multiclassed into wizard would perhaps be the mix you are looking for. Dark Pact especially has a LOT of necrotic powers, although there are a couple of wizard ones as well. Similarly, your character, with the multiclass into wizard, could have the following trained skills: Arcana, Religion, Bluff, History, and you still have another. The Knowledges (Arcana, Religion, especially History) can be flavoured, in part, as information you can pull from the dead. Bluff is important since your character is leading a "hidden" life. For your "rare" animation of undead, I think there are some conjurations for the illusionist wizard that might apply, I'm not sure. Otherwise the cleric is actually the class with the conjurations to do that [in which case a wizard multiclassed into cleric could fit your concept better]. In either case, choice of rituals might be the bigger way to expand the idea. There are a number of divination rituals, plus some stuff like Hand of Fate, Consult Mystic Sages, etc and then there is Phantom Steed. They can easily be turned into a more necromacy based rituals, such as contacting dead spirits for the information and raising dead horses, etc. If your GM is up for it, they could even include some more gruesome material components ... perhaps making the ritual cheaper in exchange for making it more difficult to get access to the right materials. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
D&D Older Editions
4E character creation
Top