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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1084197" data-attributes="member: 11987">This is due the True Necromancer's Necromancer ability that allow his Divine and Arcane Caster Levels to stack when using Necromantic Spells. This should not exceed the characters total level it works out to be this Wizard + Cleric + True Necromancer levels to get the total casting level for Necromantic Spells. The True Necromancer only allows your character you increase one class's casting ability per level thus True Necromancer levels do not count twice. If the character tock Mystic Thurge levels those levels would count twice because the increase both the characters divine and arcane casting levels. Also if the character's level is 9 he can not normally take the class since he needs 5 levels of cleric (minimum) and 5 levels of Wizard (minimum). But if he took 2 levels Mystic Thurge after 3 levels of cleric and 3 levels of wizard the character then the character could start the class earlier. At level 9 he could be a Wizard 3/Cleric 3/Mystic Thurge 2/True Necromancer 1. In this case he would have a caster level of 11 for his necromantic spells at character level 9. Note that Desecrate is a second level True Necromancer ability. He can animate up to twice, or four time with in Desecrate aura, his combined caster level in a single casting (in this case 11) but can only control four times his caster level and that does not change in a Desecrate aura.  What spell would he be using to raise things like dragons? When using Animate Dead the creature loses all abilities it possessed in life and become a normal MM skeleton or zombie of the appropriate size. Using Create Undead spell the character must Rebuke the creature to command it. This would be done at the character’s Cleric + True Necromancer level (so as a 4th level Cleric in this case). The HD of creature who are commanded via Rebuking can not exceed the characters turning level. There no longer seems to be the provision in 3.5 stating that a character can command undead with greater HD then your Turing level. In 3.0 the character must concentrate continuously to do so.</blockquote>

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