As long as you don't have a bard and a druid with conjure woodland beings.

For an NPC necromancer it's just part of the course to have 10 or more of his servants killed with a fireball.Ģ Skeletons sounds reasonable though. You either just annihilate them with AoE spells, which isn't fun for the player controling the skeletons or combat grinds to a halt as you wait for the player to roll his own attacks and all of the attacks for his undead (13 attacks if he uses a 9th level slot).

you are just returning the soul to it's body, if it found an early demise.īut yeah the morality with necromancy is somewhat grey, it's like should we condem germ theory, because of biological weapons?Īlso it's not really fun to run a combat encounter with a horde skeletons at the side of the PCs. That's why nobody will burn you at the stake for the 'good' necromancy spells like: Raise Dead, Revivify, Resurrection etc. You are mocking the gods by infusing some form of false life into these poor dead people. The part that their spirit is already in the afterlife is the problem. I smell heresy, the 'god' you are praying to is probably Orcus. * - (a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust)Ĭleric Wizard Death Domain Circle of Spores Oathbreaker Each of the creatures must come from a different corpse or pile of bones. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you animate or reassert control over two additional undead creatures for each slot level above 3rd. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating a new one.Īt Higher Levels. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given it. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one).

The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature's game statistics). Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures

Undead and uneasy