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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benji" data-source="post: 6985998" data-attributes="member: 6793743">Necromancers aren't inherently evil. If they were, the rules for them would be in the DMG. They are in the PH as an option between 'Illusionist' and 'Transumation' specialities. I've never played one but have been in at least two parties that featured a necromancer. I mean Warlock is a playable class too, so 'dodgey moral ground' is not a place you'd be alone on.This is less of a good idea. That's to do with play agency. Once you say to someone 'YOU can't play the character you love, but I CAN! it's gonna make people p***ed.I am going to ask a question here and it might seem like I'm being elitist or whatever but I'm trying to find out what you have available so I can help you better. Do you own a copy of the Player's Handbook? If not, it might be worth getting one or borrowing one. Things like 'is there a difference between the two classes' will be answered better than we can on a forum. Having said that - But Basically - Wizard would give you more spell choices and but less ability to choose what to cast on the fly but with an added option to specialise as a necromancer while sorcerer is less options but the ability to decide in the moment what spells to use. Really, it wouldn't be any different to any other character fighting a black dragon. Being a Necromancer has no real bearing on this as far as I can see. If the dragon wants to kill you, it doesn't care what magic you practise. All I can offer is that it's likely to cover you in acid.Kahless kind of covered this but it's worth noting that the 'demon energies' thing can just be that you had an infernal ancestor or something. If you wanted to play a 'Good guy' tiefling who just happens to have demon ancestors then it's totally normal thing to do. I think it depends on the group. What kind of group are you playing in (group of friends who are all serious character actors, Pub gaming group that are in it for looting and pillaging, internet chatroom with wacky comedy DM, adventurer's league play at a store with very By-The-Book DM?) that sort of detail can sometimes help construct the argument here.</blockquote>

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