I'd definitely be more worried at hearing some guy is an specialist in the Roofie School than hearing they're a necromancer.
Word. At least, with the necromancer, I won't be there any longer when they start messing with my body!
I'd definitely be more worried at hearing some guy is an specialist in the Roofie School than hearing they're a necromancer.
I could cast Magic Jar and make you watch.Word. At least, with the necromancer, I won't be there any longer when they start messing with my body!
If they're that drunk, then regardless of spell school all they're going to be throwing at each other is wild magic surges!Imagine a fight breaks out in your favorite bar. Which would you rather the drunken hooligans be throwing at each other?
- Hold Person / Deep Slumber
- Ray of Exhaustion / Vampiric Touch
- Fireball / Lightning Bolt
Whoever said "dead men tell no tales" never met this spell.Speak With Dead.
1. Necromancy just means "speaking with the dead." And before 3rd Edition, as far as I know, D&D included healing spells and resurrection spells and such as part of the Necromancy school of magic. Even in 3rd Edition, a few positive energy spells like Gentle Repose and Disrupt Undead belong to the Necromancy school, along with various others that do not animate or control undead. I do not think most Necromancy spells and effects are evil in nature. Only those that make undead and perhaps those that slay the living, among a few other things. Most Necromancies don't actually disturb the dead (heck, even the Divination spell Speak With Dead only contacts a sort of mental or spiritual imprint on the skull of a dead creature, not the actual soul itself in the Outer Planes or what-have-you).1. I think necromancy in itself is evil, since it disturbs the peace of the dead, enslaves a soul, takes him from his proper realm or destination, and tampers with the right order of life and death. What say you, gentle reader?
2. I can see that many modern minds cringe at the self-righteous fanaticism of our ancestors who hunted witches and waged crusades against Moors and Saracens. But in a pseudo-mediaeval world where cosmic evil, inherently evil monsters and demons do exist, I would not say that a crusading mentality like that of the Silver Flame is inherently evil in terms of cosmological or moral alignment.
What say you, fellow roleplayer?
I'd definitely be more worried at hearing some guy is an specialist in the Roofie School than hearing they're a necromancer.