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Message: <blockquote data-quote="udalrich" data-source="post: 5302633" data-attributes="member: 53796">From your post, it sounds like you will lose a class level to be a necropolitan.  That hurts a full caster, and as a sorcerer, you already gain new levels of spells one level late.  While it's unlikely that you'll be able hide your undeadness from the  party, you probably could hide it from most casual acquaintances.  It could be an interesting hook for social interactions.  Since your considering an evil character either way, you will have problems regardless if there are hard core good character (i.e., paladin in mind if not in class) characters in your party.Being damaged by positive energy rather than negative energy depends on the campaign.  In many campaigns, the NPC clerics that you fight will channel negative energy, so you can stand and smile while the rest of the party gets hurt.  You might even occasionally get free healing from your enemies, especially if you keep up a "not undead" disguise.  The main downside is that the party cleric won't heal you when he channels (but he also won't harm you either).In addition to the healing problem, there is also the death problem.  You won't have the buffer region between conscious and dead where living characters are unconscious.  The first time you drop in combat, you probably need to make a new character.  Raise dead and reincarnate won't work, and (true) resurrection restores you to your living form, not your undead form.  At low levels, an unlucky critical can kill you; at high levels, save or die will eventually kill you.  (Although there are fewer save of die in pathfinder, I think a fair number of those that remain target undead.)It could be an interesting character to play: somewhat underpowered on offense but strong on defense with interesting social interactions.</blockquote>

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