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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5190982" data-attributes="member: 29398">As written, no.  I stuck one in and gave it to Necromancers as a 7th (i.e. hghest) level spell called Spirit Blast.  Prior to that, it was the most devastating bullet in the psionic arsenal but I got rid of psionics this time around. For the lesser undead such as these, you're quite right.  But how does it work if a high-level Necromancer manages to get a Wight going, which *does* have some sort of spirit; or a Ghoul or Ghast which at least have intelligence.  Where does that spirit and-or intelligence come from?  Certainly not the Necromancer... If I'm a Necromancer, I see my primary aim as doing two primary things during my career to help me eventually get to my career goal:1. Make things dead, preferably with nice unblemished corpses2. Get those corpses up and running under my control3. (career goal) Turn myself into the most powerful undead I can.I still have it that very high level evil MUs and occasionally Clerics can turn themselves into liches etc., but Necromancers have an inside track: I've designed a special spell "Necromantic Continuation", castable once only by a Necromancer of 20th-level or higher (in 3e I'd use 25th, in 4e 35th, i.e. something beyond the usual range), which if successful turns the caster into a major undead and if unsuccessful slays the caster irrevocably.I guess what I'm saying is I've given Necromancers quite a bit of thought, and concluded that for them to work as I envision them they pretty much have to be evil.  So, evil they are. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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