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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 6088908" data-attributes="member: 78958">Good necromancer options in a situation like this (how high level are your baddies anyway?):1. Lord of the Uttercold feat, to go with cold-substituted Fireballs. Skeleton (and other cold-immune undead) minions are actually healed by this, so the necromancers can just shoot into the melee.2. Desecrate the whole place (make sure there's an evil altar in place, too), to make undead better and turning harder. Your necromancers should probably include a mix of arcane and divine casters, or go Dread Necromancer. Also opens up the option of bolstering the Undead before the fight, or right when it starts.3. The necromancer leader could be high enough in level to use Magic Jar. Devastating tactic. Possess a PC, turn him onto his comrades, when the PCs have 'dealt' with the threat, possess another PC...4. Master of Shrouds PrC available for the baddies --> lots of undead Shadows/Wraiths/more incorporeal stuff to go around. At 8th level, these are still very nasty, especially for a party that relies on melee a lot.5. Debuff, debuff, debuff. Split Rays of Enfeeblement are only 3rd level. Ray of Exhaustion is 3rd level as well. Fell Weaken Magic Missiles are only 2nd level, as is Kelgore's Grave Mist. All of these pretty much take the fight out of a Barbarian. And they stack nicely, too...6. Fear effects can really mix it up. The Fear spell will probably scatter half the party in panicked flight (dropping their weapons along the way), while the rest of the party remains to fight an outgunned battle.I could go on, but the point is: enemy spellcasters are nasty, nasty, nasty, and should always to played to their strengths. Should be a memorable encounter!</blockquote>

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