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New Skills and Skill Uses

Knowledge (Anatomy)

New Skills and Skill Uses

Knowledge (Anatomy)

(Int; Trained Only)

This skill represents understanding of basic anatomy,

surgery and the like. This skill is useful for preparing corps-

es for burial or experimentation, assisting in treating injury,

and so forth.

The Necromancer specialist wizard has been transformed

into its own 20-level base class. The standard wizard found

in the PHB remains the typical, universal wizard base class.

Check: A check is used to locate a particular vein, or-

gan, muscle or other aspect of a living or dead creature’s

anatomy. This skill is most commonly used on corpses being

looted for desired organs or the like—using it on a living

creature will most likely require sedation or, in the case of

beasts, a Handle Animal check in the very least.

Specialists and Multi-Classing

Specialists cannot multi-class with other specialist

wizard classes of schools prohibited by any current spe-

cialist wizard classes. Furthermore, if the character later

multi-classes into any other spellcasting classes, be they

divine or arcane in nature, spells from prohibited schools

remain beyond the character’s ability to learn.

Action: Varies, although a full round is typical for an en-

tirely external search with more time required for surgical

activities.

Try Again: Yes, so long as a failed surgery or Heal check

has not been performed in desired area.

Synergy: If you have 5 or more ranks in Knowledge

(anatomy), you get a +2 bonus on Heal checks.

Augment Undead (Specialist)

Using focused negative energy, any undead you animate

will be able to withstand more hardship.

Prerequisites: 4 levels of necromancer

New Feats

Along with the new feats to be found in this section, also

introduced is an entirely new category of feats. Specialist

feats are only available to specialist wizards, and most only

to a speciﬁ c type of specialist.

New Feats

Beneﬁ ts: Whenever you animate or create undead, by

spell, special ability or magical item, the creature will pos-

sess its maximum possible hit points.

Table 1: New Feats

Feat Prerequisites

Arcane Healing * 4 levels of necromancer,

Knowledge (anatomy) 8 ranks

Augment Undead * 4 levels of necromancer

Crippling Grip Improved Unarmed Strike,

Knowledge (anatomy) 4 ranks

Death Mastery * 3 levels of necromancer

Death’s Door * 3 levels of necromancer, Con

Empower Undead * 8 levels of necromancer,

Augment Undead, Wis 12

Evade Death * 1 level of necromancer, Wis 12

Forbidden Lore * 1 level of any specialist wizard

class, Int 12

Gift of Life * 10 levels of necromancer, Heal

12 ranks, Wis 12

Graft * 10 levels of necromancer, Graft

the Undead

Hold Back the Dark * 5 levels of necromancer, Con

Intuit Life * 1 level of diviner or necroman-

cer

Intuit Undeath * 2 levels of diviner or necroman-

cer

Specialist Familiar * 4 levels of any single specialist

wizard class, Charisma 14+

Tame Undeath * 3 levels of necromancer, Cha

Turning Recovery * 3 levels of necromancer or cleric,

the ability to turn/rebuke undead

Turning Mastery Turn or rebuke undead

* This is a Specialist feat

Crippling Grip (General)

Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Knowledge

(anatomy) 4 ranks

Beneﬁ ts: You can use your understanding of anatomy

to temporarily rob a grappled opponent use of a limb. First

you must attain and sustain a hold and then, as a standard

action, make another opposed grapple check. Success robs

the opponent of the limb’s use for 1d4 rounds unless they

make a DC (10 + 1/2 grapple bonus + 1/2 level) Fortitude

saving throw.

Death Mastery (Specialist)

Your magics are especially effective against a particular

type of undead.

Prerequisites: 3 levels of necromancer

Beneﬁ ts: Select a speciﬁ c type of undead (skeletons,

wights, zombies, vampires, etc.) Against this type of undead

all DCs of your spells, spell-like and supernatural abilities

are increased by 2.

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times, applying

each additional instance to a new type of undead.

Death’s Door (Specialist)

You are able to hold on to the light of consciousness as

death’s darkness tries to take you.

Prerequisites: 3 levels of necromancer, Con 12

Beneﬁ ts: You are still considered disabled rather than

dying for as many negative hit points as your Constitution

bonus, to a maximum of as many negative hit points as re-

sults in death (normally −10.)

Normal: You are unconscious and dying when reduced

to −1 hit points or less.

Empower Undead (Specialist)

Undead you create or animate are better able to shrug

away divine manipulation.

Arcane Healing (Specialist)

You are able to use your necromantic arts to heal.

Prerequisites: 4 levels of necromancer, Knowledge (anat-

omy) 8 ranks

Prerequisites: 8 levels of necromancer, Augment Undead,

Wis 12

Beneﬁ ts: By sacriﬁ cing a spell as standard action and

touching the subject’s ﬂ esh rather than casting the spell

normally, you heal as many hit points of damage as the

spell’s level. Doing so requires a DC (10 + spell level)

Knowledge (anatomy) check or the spell is lost without

gaining the healing effect.

Beneﬁ ts: Any undead you create or animate, by spell, spe-

cial ability or magical item, gains a Turn Resistance or bonus

to existing Turn Resistance equal to your Wisdom bonus.

Evade Death (Specialist)

You are able to sustain your life beyond the usual

point of death

Prerequisites: 1 level of necromancer, Wis 12

your basic, innate sense for the animal or plant in question

only extends for a radius of 50 feet in all directions. This al-

lows you to sense the presence of the animal or plant type

without needing to concentrate, although anything more re-

quires concentration and is limited in its scope. 1 round of

studying a cone-shaped emanation bestows the information

normally acquired after 2 rounds of studying for detect ani-

mals or plants , while only 2 rounds are needed for the infor-

mation normally acquired after 3 rounds of study.

Beneﬁ ts: You can suffer 5 additional negative hit points

before dying (in other words, until reaching −15 hit points.)

Normal: You die upon reaching −10 hit points or less.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times, each time

gaining an additional 5 negative hit points to your death

threshold. You may only take this feat as many times as you

have a Wisdom bonus.

Special: This feat may be taken more than once, applying

each new instance to a new type of plant or animal.

Forbidden Lore (Specialist)

You know a spell that you, as a specialist, should not.

Intuit Undeath (Specialist)

You have an innate sense for the presence of the un-

dead.

Prerequisites: 1 level of any specialist wizard class, Int

12+

Beneﬁ ts: You can learn one spell of your prohibited

magic school, to a maximum spell level equal to your

Intelligence bonus.

Prerequisites: 2 levels of diviner or necromancer

Beneﬁ ts: You are automatically able to sense the undead

in your vicinity, as per the detect undead spell. The radius of

your basic, innate sense for the undead only extends for a

radius of 15 feet in all directions. This allows you to sense

the presence of the unliving without needing to concentrate,

although anything more requires concentration and is lim-

ited in its scope. 1 round of studying a cone-shaped ema-

nation bestows the information normally acquired after 2

rounds of studying for detect undead , while

only 2 rounds are needed for the information

normally acquired after 3 rounds of study.

Gift of Life (Specialist)

You can give of your own life energy to

heal someone.

Prerequisites: 10 levels of necromancer,

Heal 12 ranks, Wis 12

Beneﬁ ts: You may spend a full-round

action to heal (1d4 x Wisdom bonus) hit

points by touch, but doing so causes you

to suffer one negative level. This is auto-

matic and negative energy protection or

the Hold Back the Dark feat will not pre-

vent this detrimental effect.

Special: This feat may be taken mul-

tiple times, with each additional in-

stance doubling the previous ranges (30

feet for taking it twice, 60 feet for three

times, etc.)

Graft (Specialist)

You are able to expand the abilities

you gain through undead grafting.

Specialist Familiar

(Specialist)

Your familiar is altered into a

creature more suited to your spe-

cialty.

Prerequisites: 10 levels of necromancer, Graft

the Undead

Beneﬁ ts: You are able to graft to yourself an additional

body part from an undead creature.

Prerequisites: 4 levels of any single specialist wizard

class, Charisma 14+

Hold Back the Dark (Specialist)

You gain a measure of resistance against negative level

attacks.

Prerequisites: 5 levels of necromancer, Con 12

Beneﬁ ts: Your familiar gains the following abilities, as

beﬁ tting your specialty wizard class:

● Necromancer : Becomes undead; apply the undead crea-

ture type to the familiar.

Beneﬁ ts: You are able to automatically resist gaining

one negative level per round. This feat’s beneﬁ ts compound

with any other sources of negative level resistance.

Tame Undeath (Specialist)

You are able to use your magic to replicate (with limits) a

cleric’s divine inﬂ uence upon the undead.

Prerequisites: 3 levels of necromancer, Cha 14

Intuit Life (Specialist)

You have an innate sense for basic life forces around

you.

Beneﬁ ts: This feat grants you the ability to either turn or

rebuke undead (decide which when the feat is chosen) once

per day. This requires permanently sacriﬁ cing a spell slot,

the level of which, plus your Charisma modiﬁ er, is the cleric

level you are considered to turn or rebuke as. For example,

sacriﬁ cing a 3rd-level spell slot for this feat means a cleric

Prerequisites: 1 level of diviner or necromancer

Beneﬁ ts: You are automatically able to sense one kind

of animal or plant (selected when the feat is taken) in your

vicinity, as per the detect animals or plants spell. The radius of

with Charisma 14 (+2 bonus) would turn or rebuke as a 5th-

level cleric.

themselves even when it puts them at odds with others, in-

cluding their few and closest companions.

Special: You may take this feat more than once, each

time adding another use per day. However, you must apply

the feat to either turning or rebuking, as decided when the

ﬁ rst instance of this feat was taken, although the effective

cleric level can vary.

Characteristics

Most cultures have strong prohibitions against desecrat-

ing the dead and tampering with the fabric of life—a prov-

ince of the gods. This means even necromancers who operate

under the best of intentions will often ﬁ nd themselves going

against society’s restraining norms and laws. Indeed, they

will be strong willed and highly individualized, with morals

all their own (and thus not the least reason why many other

mages do not wish to regularly associate with necromancers.)

Almost universally, it is difﬁ cult to remain joyful and full of

mirth when one’s province is that of death, leaving most nec-

romancers a solemn and solitary sort of specialist.

Alignment

Turning Recovery (Specialist)

Failing to turn or rebuke undead isn’t as costly to you as

it is others.

Prerequisites: 3 levels of necromancer or cleric, the abil-

ity to turn/rebuke undead

Beneﬁ ts: Whenever you fail to turn or rebuke any un-

dead with your turning check, you may attempt a DC (30

− the turning check’s result) Spellcraft check to prevent the

failure from costing you a turn/rebuke attempt. Success

means the failed turning/rebuking attempt does not reduce

your remaining attempt for the day.

Evil tends to be the ﬂ avor of choice for necromancers

because such wizards are likely to have buried any qualms

about grave robbing, reviving the dead, and generally dab-

bling with the dark arts. The corrupting and beguiling na-

ture of necromancy’s promised powers beyond death also

appeal to those who follow the path of evil. While good-

aligned necromancers exist, most will be exiles, exist in a

society with an unusually open perspective on death, or will

focus on the life force-related aspects of their art rather than

on those elements dealing with death and the undead.

Turning Mastery (General)

Your turning or rebuking attempts are especially effec-

tive against a particular type of undead.

Prerequisites: Turn or rebuke undead

Beneﬁ ts: Select a speciﬁ c type of undead (skeletons,

wights, zombies, vampires, etc.) Against this type of undead

you are considered to be 2 levels higher for the sake of turn-

ing and rebuking.

Religion

Most necromancers will obviously seek worship with

gods of life or death, as they are the divine powers that

rule over the natures of their chosen school. A rare few will

bend knee to other gods, most often those representing pure

magic, but far too often this is little more than a matter of

lip service or charade because the designs of most other

deities—even the foulest and darkest—rarely coincide with

necromancy’s methods and needs.

Background

Special: This feat may be taken multiple times, apply-

ing each additional instance to a new type of undead or to a

previously selected type of undead, further increasing your

effective level by an additional 2.

The Necromancer

Core Class

Necromancers are a solitary lot who typically seek the

quiet contemplation that comes from associating with the

departed and undead more so than with the living. Of

course, there’s also the matter of other wizards not feeling

entirely comfortable spending so much time around dead

things and anyone who welcomes such companionship,

leaving this class to those wizards that have always been

loners, even before taking up the dark arts.

Core Class

Although most are associated with the darker aspect

of their profession—that of reviving the dead to a pitiful,

dark semblance of life—there can be far more to a necro-

mancer than cobbling skeletons together and mummifying

monstrous minions. Necromancers can twist the forces of

life, but not always towards death or undeath. Should they

choose, they can be as great a force for life as the most heroic

paladin or piously benevolent cleric.

Adventures

Races

Few races hold to necromancy, and most that do are of

the vile, corrupt sort that already serve darkness as a matter

of their base nature. Orcs, half-orcs, dark elves and the like

all consider necromancy an acceptable—even normal and

laudable—arcane pursuit. Of the other races, the dual, di-

rectionless disposition of humanity means they are the most

likely to take up the necromantic arts. Elves ﬁ nd necroman-

cy abhorrent except when turned solely to the study of life,

and even then its practitioners are usually viewed with sus-

picion because of the corruption such magics tends to work

upon its users. Amongst, dwarves, gnomes and especially

Necromancers must put as much thought and prepara-

tion into their adventures as most other wizards, but they

rarely take command (unless as master of lesser beings) be-

cause their powers are so off-putting for most companions

and this can cause problems when it comes to creating the

level of trust necessary to lead. The solitary nature of their

arts can also make them slow to follow orders that don’t im-

mediately make sense to them or they don’t ﬁ nd entirely

agreeable. Necromancers are accustomed to thinking for

halﬂ ings, necromancers are virtually unheard of.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency

Necromancers are proﬁ cient with the dagger, light cross-

bow, sling, and light ﬂ ail, but not with any type of armor or

shield. Armor of any type interferes with a necromancer’s

movements, which can cause his spells with somatic com-

ponents to fail.

Other Classes

Necromancers don’t work easily with other classes—

even other wizards, especially specialists as the latter are

more likely than all others to understand the dangers of

so intensely studying the dark arts. Clerics sworn to gods

of death are perhaps the most likely to understand necro-

mancers and ﬁ nd a common ground, whereas those classes

likely to view all manner of magic with suspicion—such as

ﬁ ghters and barbarians—are unlikely to hold necromancers

in any graver light than other wizards, unless they witness

something especially horriﬁ c. Bards, clerics of gods associ-

ated with life’s aspects (birth, agriculture, healing, etc.), and

druids will usually refuse to associate with necromancers,

almost certainly if the specialist has embraced their school’s

darker elements, because necromancy is the polar oppo-

site of the life and joy the former hold so dear.

Role

Necromancy Specialization

A necromancer gains a +2 bonus on Spellcraft checks to

learn necromancer spells. At this time, he must also give up

two other schools of magic, which become his prohibited

schools.

A necromancer can never give up divination to fulﬁ ll this

requirement.

Spells of the prohibited schools are not available to the

necromancer, and he can’t even cast such spells from

scrolls or ﬁ re them from wands. He may not change

his prohibited schools later.

A necromancer’s abilities tend to ﬂ oat towards one

extreme or the other: aid or harm. As such, a necro-

mancer can be incredibly helpful in a ﬁ ght by wield-

ing death magic and expanding his allies’ ranks by

summoning undead from beyond the Veil, or he can

use his abilities to act as a surrogate cleric, memo-

rized spells permitting. For the most part, though,

a necromancer is best suited for killing the living

when not otherwise engaged with that which al-

ready rests cold in the earth.

Spells

A necromancer casts arcane spells which are

drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list. A

necromancer must choose and prepare his spells

ahead of time (see below.)

To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the necro-

mancer must have a Wisdom score equal to at

least 10 + the spell level. The Difﬁ culty Class for

a saving throw against a necromancer’s spell is

10 + the spell level + the necromancer’s Wisdom

modiﬁ er.

Game Rule Information

Necromancers have the following game statis-

tics.

Like other spellcasters, a necromancer can

cast only a certain number of spells of each spell

level per day. His base daily spell allotment is

given on Table 2: The Necromancer . In addi-

tion, he receives bonus spells per day if he has a

high Wisdom score, as does a wizard for a high

Intelligence.

Abilities: As with priests, Wisdom deter-

mines the strength of a necromancer’s spells,

how many he can cast, and how difﬁ cult it is

to resist those spells’ effects. Charisma is also

important because it governs several of the nec-

romancer’s optional abilities.

Unlike a bard or sorcerer, a necromancer

may know any number of spells. He must choose and pre-

pare his spells ahead of time by getting a good night’s sleep

and spending 1 hour studying his spellbook. While study-

ing, the necromancer decides which spells to prepare.

Alignment: Any.

Hit Die: d4.

Class Skills

The necromancer’s class skills (and the key ability for

each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher

Script (Int), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (all skills, taken individ-

ually) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int.)

Skill Points at 1st Level: (3 + Int modiﬁ er) x4.

Bonus Languages

A necromancer may substitute Draconic for one of the

bonus languages available to the character because of his

race.

Summon Familiar

A necromancer can obtain a familiar in exactly the same

manner as a sorcerer can. See the sorcerer description and

the information on Familiars in the PHB for details.

Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 3 + Int modiﬁ er.

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the necromancer.

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