You’re running skeletons or zombies with some extra hit points and a tiny bit of extra damage output, so even within the bounded accuracy of 5e, you’re getting to a point where this is mostly a ton of whiffing and tracking comparatively small pools of hit points. You can functionally run a whole mess of minions at once, but these don’t scale well. Undead ThrallsĪnimate dead and the Undead Thralls feature mark this Tradition as a pet class of sorts, just one that regards its pets as eminently dispensable. If there were something that regularly cost the necromancer a small number of hit points, so they needed to top off again? We’ll give it a go in a minute. An occasional 2-3 hit points per spell level is probably not healing through their problems. The other… the necromancer is probably either at full health or super screwed, stray arrows notwithstanding. Confirmation bias is biased indeed, but I would swear that more than half of all my players’ kills include one player reducing the creature to 1 hit point. Your teammates, without meaning to, are entirely likely to block your use of this feature, even after you’ve probably sunk several spell-levels into softening the targets up. Almost no DMs tell PCs in any detail how many hit points the monsters have left, so players aren’t making informed choices about who to target or how hard to hit. You’re basically trying to last-hit something, but you’re going out of school for most of your damage output until vampiric touch and blight. There are 8 necromantic damaging spells, not counting cantrips that do you no good for this feature. Outside of corner-case circumstances, you’re only killing anyone with your damaging spells. In the event that you kill more than one creature on your turn, well, bully for ya. You don’t gain this benefit for killing constructs or undead. Once per turn when you kill one or more creatures with a spell of 1st level or higher, you regain hit points equal to twice the spell’s level, or three times its level if the spell belongs to the School of Necromancy. Buy My Stuff is indeed my solution to this issue, not that the linked PDFs currently include necromancy. To this end, I’ve written a lot of necromancy spells of my own, in Tribality and in EN5IDER releases, over the years. Point being, if you pick just one of your two free new spells at 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, and 17th levels to be in-school, Necromancy Savant doesn’t have much to offer you some levels are rendered entirely barren. You get animate dead for free at 6th level. 5, 1 damaging (not counting life transference as damaging).Between the two books, it looks about like this (I might miss one or two): Xanathar’s Guide to Everything offers a tiny bit of help here. Necromancy doesn’t even get that many at some levels. Most features have more than two spells at each level. I want to break down the issues with each feature – though I have no problems, at present, with Inured to Undeath and Command Undead.įirst off, I get that every tradition has a version of this as their first feature. I think there are serious problems with the School of Necromancy, and in this post I’m both examining the problems and proposing an alternative. What I discovered is that the Necromancer tradition almost never did anything useful for me. In the Reborn campaign, I have played a cleric from 1st level to 12th, and because of how clerics work in that campaign, I also got the full boat of features from the Necromancer wizard tradition. 30 Nov, 2017 in 5e DnD / design ideas / free gaming resources / horror / Reborn tagged D&D 5e / necromancer / necromancy / Reborn / subclass / wizard by Brandes Stoddard
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