D&D General Ever Wondered What An Artificer Necromancer Would Look Like? (CW: Arachnophobia)

[CleverNickName]

Scientists have invented 'necrobiotic' spiders. Yep, that's a thing.

And now I have an awesome new twist on the bog-standard "evil necromancer villain" in my campaign. Instead of a wizard reanimating the dead through the power of Necromancy, I'll use an Artificer who reanimates the dead through machinery!

Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead.


Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that can blend into natural environments while picking up objects, like other insects, that outweigh them.

Why?

"It happens to be the case that the spider, after it's deceased, is the perfect architecture for small scale, naturally derived grippers," said Daniel Preston of Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering.

Link to the full article below. (CW: Arachnophobia)

'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead.

phys.org

Spoiler: Illustration CW:Arachnophobia

 

[overgeeked]

I was really hoping for a Doctor Frankenstein-style artificer when they did Ravenloft, but alas. I think it's a great archetype.

 

[Stormonu]

Thinking of The Mummy…

What about an artificer that uses Hoard Scarabs to do his dirty work?