Necromantic Druids

[Vanuslux]

Does anyone know of a class (either base or prestige) that would work well with the character concept of a necromancer druid?

 

[Crothian]

Blighter from Complete Divine

 

[Jubilee]

There were some druid feats in a dragon magazine that went along with some of the vile stuff from book of vile darkness - one of them was the ability to sacrifice animals to cast divinations.. I don't feel up to looking it up myself, but maybe it will spark someone else's memory and they will tell you where to look.

blighter is also the only undead-related druid prestige class I can think of, but you lose most of your original druidic abilities doing it, and all your undead abilities relate to undead animals, I believe.

/ali

 

[Vanuslux]

I'd forgotten about the Blighter...unfortunately I'm looking more for a druid with a necromantic twist rather than a bizarro world opposite day druid that cribs a lot of the druid's style for the sake of destroying nature. What I'm looking for is still a treehugging hippy type...the main difference being in how far he'll go to protect the forest.

 

[Sejs]

In that case, go Wizard (or Dread Necromancer) / Druid / Arcane Heirophant.

Side note: necro-druid is kind of a tough trick to pull off, thematically. 'Respect nature' and 'thumb your nose at nature by making undead' are usually pretty opposed concepts.

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

children of winter from eberron are somewhat death druids...there all about death and decay but normal druids othere then that....there was a class or something of the like in a dragon a few years back i'll see if i can round it up

 

[Particle_Man]

In that case, go Wizard (or Dread Necromancer) / Druid / Arcane Heirophant.

Your God will just HAVE to be Wee Jas (LN druids? Sure, why not).

 

[VirgilCaine]

Your God will just HAVE to be Wee Jas (LN druids? Sure, why not).

Check the PHB, dude. LN druids are core.

OP: Don't forget to check Complete Divine and PHB II for some off-beat Druid spells like Infestation of Maggots.

 

[DMH]

MEG's Blight Magic (Ronin Arts sells the pdf) has one or two PrCs along those lines. In fact they are the only ones I can think of for a druid that still protects nature while using necromancy. And they are even more twisted than than bog-standard antidruid.

 

[IceFractal]

Since making normal undead might not work so well for a Druid, see if you can research a spell to make Yellow Musk Zombies (MM2 or maybe FF) - they're all-natural.