The Necromancer

Shrouded in dark robes a man lifts a pale bony hand,

Dark tendrils of energy lash onto the freshly buried
corpse and causes it to shamble up, awaiting the
command of its master.
Clad in the silver vestments of a god of death the dwarf
chants a song of banishment, crumbling several skeletons
before him into mere dust, before he turns to the
cowering necromancer before him, extinguishing his
lifeblood to heal a fallen ally.
Calling up the power of the dead an elf encase herself
in bone armor while impaling several bandits on a spear
of bone conjured by her necrotic magic.
Necromancers are a varied but still
uniquely similar lot, all calls upon the power of death,
Necromancy their school of choice, and while some
seeks a dark path to Lichdom or to server a dark god
or master, others serve to preserve the balance
between life and death, mastering the magic of
death, aswell as life in order to better understand,
and combat the unholy.

Outcasts and Exiles

Necromancers as the name suggests
are master of the school of magic
known as necromancy, and whether
they use it for good or evil, this is true
for all of them, their choice of skills have
earned them infamy shunned from normal
society as freaks and outright dangerous
most normal people tend to shun away
from their presence as a constant shroud
of death surrounds them.

Dark masters
Not every necromancer serves evil,
although many follow the dark path for
their own gain, maybe in hopes of
attaining eternal life. Some have devoted
themselves wholly to the pursuit of balance
between life and death these necromancers
seek to uphold the threshold and
actively seek out undead threats to
put them to rest using the dark
powers that created them in the
first place. While others yet have
devoted themselves simply to the
curious study of unlife to better
understand what exactly undeath is.
The Necromancer
Proficiency Cantrips Spells -Spells Slots per Spell Level-
Level Bonus Features known Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 Spellcasting, Locate Corpses 2 2 2 - - - - - - - -
2nd +2 Face of Death, Blood Transfusion 2 3 2 - - - - - - - -
(2d6)
3rd +2 Deathbringer, Cult Heritage 2 4 3 1 - - - - - - -
Feature
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 5 3 2 - - - - - - -
5th +3 — 3 6 3 2 1 - - - - - -
6th +3 Cult Heritage Feature , Blood 3 7 4 2 2 - - - - - -
Transfusion (3d6)
7th +3 — 3 8 4 3 2 1 - - - - -
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 9 4 3 3 2 - - - - -
9th +4 Skeletal steed 3 10 4 3 3 2 1 - - - -
10th +4 Cult Heritage Feature 4 11 4 3 3 3 1 - - - -
11th +4 Blood Transfusion (4d6) 4 12 4 3 3 3 2 1 - - -
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 12 4 3 3 3 2 1 - - -
13th +5 — 4 13 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 - -
14th +5 Revenant 4 13 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 - -
15th +5 Cult Heritage Feature 4 14 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 -
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement, Blood 4 14 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 -
Transfusion (5d6)
17th +6 — 4 15 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 — 4 15 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 15 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
20th +6 Lich I am 4 15 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

Creating a Necromancer Necrotic Corruption

As you create your necromancer, consider, do you seek to
fuel your own ill will with the power of death, do you seek to
understand how to better combat death. Have you made any
oaths about lines to never cross. Also consider how your
character learned necromancy, were you part of a cult to some
god of death? Were you once a student wizard who got
curious and delved too deep in forgotten and forbidden tomes?
There are many paths to becoming a necromancer, and all of
them are filled with peril, death and not a small amount of
dread. Were you exiled from his home because of his dark
path, is death merely a tool or is each action weighted heavily
in you consciousness? Due to their connection with death a
necromancer requires an iron will in order to not fall into
madness.
Necrotic Corruption
Dabbling in Necromancy comes at a price, your meddling
with dark powers causes some physical or mental change in
you can decide to pick or roll form this table or create your
own.
D10 Necrotic Corruption
1 You have become almost corpselike, dark baggy
eyes, clammy pale skin and gangly limbs.
2 You must sleep with a body part that once belonged
to a loved one
3 Your hair has turned pale silver and moves almost
ghost-like in the breeze.
4 You adorn yourself with the bones of enemies you
have slain.
5 Sacrificing your hand in a dark ritual, you have used
necrotic magic to remake one from bone.
6 You have spent so much time with death that the
stench of the living upsets you and you’d rather
spend time in a crypt than a tavern.
7 Animals are unsettled by your presence and will
either flee or become unusually aggressive and
defensive.
8 You breathe so shallowly, that it appears you’re not
breathing at all,
9 Your best friend is the skull of your grandmother,
you often discuss philosophy.
10 You wear used burial clothes.

Quick Build
You can make a Necromancer quickly by following these
suggestions. First, intelligence should be your highest ability
score, followed by constitution, second, choose the hermit
background. Hit points
Hite Dice: 1d6
Class Features Hit points at 1st level: 6 + your constitution modifier
As a necromancer, you gain the following class features Hit points at Higher levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your constitution
modifier per Necromancer level after 1st.

Proficiencies
Armor: Shields
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom and Constitution
Skills: Choose two skills from Arcana, Deception, Religion,
Investigation, Insight, Medicine
The Grimoire
A Spellbook defiled by the necromancer to
containing forbidden knowledge, of life, death
and what lies in between.
If a grimoire is lost, you can spend a long rest to
taint a spellbook into a grimoire.
The Grimoire can take a variety of looks, such
as a flesh bound tome, pages inscribed with
blood, or a bones inscribed with the spells,
hanging from a rusty chain.
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
 (a) A light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) Any simple
weapon
 A shield and a dagger
 Your Grimoir
 (a) A scholar’s pack or (b) a Priest’s pack
Spellcasting
As a student of necromancy, you have a Grimoire containing
spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power. See
chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and at the end
of this document for the necromancer spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level you know two cantrips of your choice from the
Necromancer spell list. You learn additional necromancer
cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the
Cantrips known column of the Necromancer Table.
Spell Slot
The Necromancer table shows how many spell slots you have
to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these
necromancer spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level
or higher. You regain all expended spell lots when you finish
a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell inflict wounds
and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you
can cast inflict wounds using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the
Necromancer spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Necromancer table shows
when you learn more Necromancer spells of your choice.
Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have
spell slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this
class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose one of the Necromancer spells you know and replace it
with another spell from the Necromancer spell list, which also
must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Necromancer
spells. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to
your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Necromancer
spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your intelligence modifier
Spellcasting Focus
You can use your Grimoire (Refered to in the sidebar) as a
spellcasting focus for your necromancer spells.
Locate corpses
You become finely tuned with the presence of death and can
almost instinctually locate it within your vicinity. As an action
you can know the location of any dead or undead creature
within 600 feet of you, you know the type (Dead or undead)
of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity
(the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich, for instance).
You can use this ability a number of times equal to your
intelligence modifier, you regain all uses on a long rest.
Face of Death
At 2nd level you have become so familiar with fear that it
takes something extraordinary to frighten you, you gain
advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Blood Transfusion
At 2nd level having gained control over the lifeforce of others,
as an action you can target any living enemy or friendly
creature (Including yourself) within 15 feet, and deal 2d6 +
your Intelligence modifier as necrotic damage to the target, if
the target is unwilling it must succeed a Constitution saving
throw equal to your spell save DC, On a success you can then
target another friendly target within 15 feet of the first
creature and heal it for an amount equal to the damage dealt.
You can use this feature once per short or long rest.
The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level,
and 5d6 at 16th level.
Deathbringer
At 3rd level, you gain an undead minion that accompanies you
on your adventures and is bound to fight alongside you.
Choose an undead that is no larger than Medium and that has
a Challenge rating of 1/4 or lower (the Skeleton or zombie are
examples). Add your proficiency bonus to the undead’s AC,
Attack rolls, and Damage Rolls, as well as to any Saving
Throws and Skills it is proficient in. Its hit point maximum
equals the hit point number in its stat block or four times your
Necromancer level, whichever is higher. Like any creature, it
can spend Hit Dice during a Short Rest to regain Hit Points. It
otherwise retains it’s statistics, including any special abilities.
The minion obeys your commands. It takes its turn on your
initiative, though it doesn’t take an action unless you
command it to. On your turn, you can mentally command the
minion where to move (no action required by you). You can
use your action to mentally command it to take the Attack,
Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. At 5th level you can
use one action yourself when you command the minion to take
one of these actions.
If you are incapacitated for more than an hour, or further than
120 feet away from your minion for 24 hours the minion
breaks from your control.
If the minion dies you can obtain a new minion by spending 1
hour performing a ritual to raise a corpse and bind it to you.
Cult Heritage
At 3rd level you pick the Cult of Necromancy that you decide
to follow. The cult you chose grants you features at 3rd level
and again at 7th, 10th, and 15th.
Ability Score improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and
19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice
by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by
1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20
using this feature.
Skeletal steed
At 9th level your dabble in necromancy allows you to raise a
creature strong enough to carry a rider. Expending a spell slots
and spending 10 minutes to perform a ritual to animate the
remains of an animal of one size category larger than you that
can carry you. (Such as a horse or a pony for a medium size or
a riding dog for small size)
After 10 minutes the remains rise and serve as a mount for
you, it resembles the living creature but as a skeleton only, it
gains the Undead steed template, otherwise it retains all of it’s
statistics. It is mindless and cannot act on its own, and during
combat it acts on your initative and can only take the Dash or
Disengage action. You can communicate telepathically with
your mount within 1 mile.
When the steed drops to 0 Hit Points, or you dismiss it as an
action the remains crumple into dust. You can’t have more
than one skeletal steed at once.
Undead steed
Vulnerabilities Bludgeoning
Damage Immunities Poison
Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 ft
Undead Nature A skeletal steed doesn’t require
Air, food, drink or sleep.
Revenant
At 14th level you are so in tune with undeath that you reach a
state between life and death, you no longer need to eat and
drink, you also gain Resistance to Necrotic damage.
Lich I am
At 20th level you have mastered Necromancy on such a level
that you can now create a pseudo-Phylactery, the process
takes a week and has a material cost of 3500 gp, the pseudo-
phylactery can be any item than can be worn or carried. Once
created, and you die, you are returned to life after 24 hours at
the location of your pseudo-phylactery or within 5ft if the
location is obstructed. Due to the limited nature of the pseudo-
phylactery it is destroyed in the process and you must create a
new. If the pseudo-Phylactery is destroyed in any other way
you permanently loose 10d10 Hit points, as part of your soul
is destroyed, these hit points can only be returned with a
powerful spells such as a wish or similar.
Cult Heritage
Whether you are a necromancer that serve good or evil, you
belong to one of the major Cults of Necromancy, be it the
creation or destruction of undead, the manipulation of the
forces of life and death or the journey for knowledge and
redemption for those bound as slaves.
Cult of Blood
The Cult of Blood are masters of the manipulation of life
force dabbling in forbidden blood magic to aid their allies,
hinder their foes or empower their own abilities.
Blood pact
When you embrace the Cult of blood at 3rd level you gain
access to the Blood pact. As part of a long rest you can
perform a blood rite with a friendly living creature. The pact
allows the member of the pact to gain 5 temporary hit points
with its first attack each round. This ability does not work
against Constructs or Undead. Additionally the Necromancer
can communicate with the pact member telepathically, the
pact member can telepathically reply in short and simple
words like yes and no. The pact lasts until cancelled, until
either member of the pact is unconscious or dead, until the
next long rest or if you and the target are on different planes
of existence.
The temporary hit points gained increases to 8 at 5th level, 11
at 10th level and 14 at 15th level.
Blood Tap
Also at 3rd level you can expend a Hit dice to gain advantage
on your next spell.
Empowered Undead: Blood Magic
At 6th level you mastery of blood allows you to use Blood
transfusion twice, it is also empowered with an additional d6
to a maximum of 6d6 at level 16, You can now also use Blood
Transfusion on your undead minion.
Power of blood
At 10th level you mastery of blood allows you to double your
proficiency when rolling for Constitution saving throws.
Blood Mastery
At 15th level you have become a master of blood magic. Once
per long rest, as an action you can target an enemy creature
with a constitution score lower than 16, this creature must
have blood or other liquid within it’s body. The creature must
roll a constitution saving throw against your Spell DC, on a
failed save, the Creature’s blood is boiled and it dies, on a
failed save the target takes 6d8 necrotic damage.
Cult of Bone
Your mastery of bone has taught you to draw from the very
earth around you, able to draw in the natural elements that
composite bones you can mold it to your will and use it to
spread destruction upon your foes.
Bone Augmentation
At 3rd level when you embrace the cult of bone you gain the
ability to choose two bone augmentations, you can use these
abilities a number of times equal to half your Intelligence
score (rounded down). You regain these uses on a long rest.
Empower Undead: Ossification
At 6th level your undead minion is empowered.
You can add your constitution score modifier to your minion’s
AC And it’s health is doubled.
Advanced Bone Augmentation
At 10th level you can pick an additional bone augmentation.
You can now use your augmentations a number of times equal
to your Intelligence modifier.
Exoskeleton
At 15th level you grow a natural layer of chitin-like bone
plating, encasing you like armor giving you resistance to
slashing and Piercing damage.
Bone Augments
At 3rd level you gain the ability to choose two of these, and
one additional at 10th level.
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Bone spikes
As an action you conjure sharpened boney growths to spring
up from the ground in a 15 feet radius around you. Any
creature caught in the area must make a successful dexterity
saving throw or take 1d6 piercing damage per spell level you
can cast to a maximum of 5d6, On a successful save they take
half damage. The spikes persist for 2d6 rounds counting as
rough terrain.
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Bone Armor
As a reaction you conjure bones to encase the body of a
friendly creature (including yourself) within 30 feet,
increasing their AC by 5 until the end of their next turn.
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Bone Prison
As an action you conjure up a cage of bones around a creature
up to 30 feet away, holding them in place. The target gets a
reflex save against your Spell save DC to avoid being trapped,
otherwise is movement speed is reduced to 0 and it loses its
Dexterity bonus to AC. If they succeed the saving thrown they
land on an adjacent square of their choice, and the prison
remains as an obstacle providing half cower until destroyed or
you dismiss it. A target within the cage can attack the cage to
break free, as can any other creature outside in an attempt to
free the trapped creature. The cage has a DC of 14 and 6 hit
points per your necromancer level.
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Weaken Marrow
As an action you weaken the bones of an enemy creature up to
30 feet away, the enemy must make a constitution saving
throw against your spell save DC or gain disadvantage on all
Skill checks and saving throws involving Strength or
Dexterity For one minute. This ability can be removed with a
use of the Lesser or Greater Restoration spell.
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Wall of skulls
As an action you can create a wall of bones up to 20 feet long
and 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall within 30 feet, you can shape
the wall to your desire though it can be no longer than 20 feet
long 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. The wall acts as three
quarters cover, the wall can have holes in it (resembling
arrowslits) that allows Creatures to shoot through it. The wall
persists for ten minutes, until you dismiss it or until it has
taken a total amount of damage five times your necromancer
level.
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Cult of Spirit
The Cult of the Spirit have dedicated themselves to the
creation, of undeath, they excel at manipulation the necrotic
forces that brings false life to undead creatures beckoning
them to their will.
Spirit walk
At 3rd level when you embrace the Cult of Spirits you gain
the ability to fade into the realm of the dead. As an action you
can use the Etherealness spell with the exception that you gain
an additional 30 feet of movement, and you cannot move in
any direction that you normally can’t, and lasts for only one
round. Additionally you cannot move through solid walls.
You regain this use on a short rest.
Spirit Communion
Also at 3rd level you gain the ability to draw power from the
spirit world, allowing you to use Speak with dead once
without expending a spell slot. You regain this feature on a
Short or Long rest.
Purifying Presence.
At 15 level you gain the Holy Aura spell as a class feature.
You can use this spell without material components once per
long rest.

Empower Undead: Necrotic Strength

At 6th level your mastery over death allows you to control a
more powerful undead minion. Your deathbringer feature can
now raise Undead minions up to CR 1 (Ghoul and Spectre are
examples)

Army of the Dead

At level 10 your ability to manipulate life and death increases.
You gain Create undead as a class feature, You can use this
ability once per long rest

Aspect of Death
At 15th level you are so in tune with the realm of the living
dead that undead no longer regard you as a hostile creature,
you permanently gain the benefits of Sanctuary against
undead, even if you attack or cast spells. You also no longer
need to sleep every 24 hours but can do so every 48 hours
instead and still gain the normal benefits of a long rest as long
as you perform no laborious tasks.

Church of Absolution
The church of Absolution is an extremist group of likeminded
individuals who through the use of necromancy combats
undead.

Redemption
At 3rd level your blood transfusion allows you to target
undeads directly, using the ability in this fashion causes it to
cause Radiant damage, but it no longer heals.

Empower Undead: Restoration

At 6th level your undead minion gains a semblance of
consciousness, it can perform tasks independently such as
stand guard, Retrieve an object, carry items, or work tools. Its
intelligence is still somewhat simple, so it might fail in
complicated tasks, or tasks with complex instructions.

As part of this feature, the Minion can act independently in

combat with its own initiative acting as any other creatures
although it is absolutely loyal to you and stills obeys your
commands.

Aura of Turning
At 10th level you exude a terrifying presence for undead
creatures. Each undead creature within 30 feet of you must
make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature
becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. The Frightened
creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's
saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature
is immune to the Necromancer’s Aura of Turning for the next
24 hours. Your undead minion is immune to this effect.
 Level 4
Blight
Banishment
Confusion
Death Ward
Necromancer Spells Evard’s Black Tentacle
Cantrips Phantasmal Kill
Acid Splash Shadow of Moil
Chill Touch Sickening Radience
Dancing Light
Infestation Level 5
Spare the Dying Antilife Shell
Toll the dead Contagion
Word of Radiance Cloudkill
Dance Macabre
Level 1 Destructive Wave
Bane Dispel Evil and Good
Cause Fear Enervation
Cure Wounds Hallow
Detect evil or good Holy Weapon
Detect Magic Insect Plague
Detect poison or disease Mass Cure Wounds
Disguise Self Negative Energy Flood
Dissonant Whisper Raise dead
Divine Favor
False Life Level 6
Guiding Bolt Circle of Death
Healing Word Create Undead
Hex Eyebite
Inflict wounds Harm
Protection form Evil and Good Heal
Ray of Sickness Magic Jar
Sanctuary Soul Cage
Unseen Servant True Seeing

Level 7
Level 2
Etherealness
Blindness/Deafness
Finger of Death
Crown of Madness
Power Word Pain
Darkness
Regenerate
Crown of Madness
Resurrection
Gentle Repose
Symbol
Lesser Restoration
Melf’s Acid Arrow
Level 8
Prayer of Healing
Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
Protection from Poison
Antipathy/Sympathy
Ray of Enfeeblement
Feebleminded
Shadow Blade
Maddening Darkness
Warding Bond

Level 9
Level 3
Power Word Heal
Animate Dead
Power Word Kill
Bestow Curse
True Resurrection
Feign Dead
Weird
Fear
Life transference
Remove Curse
Speak with Dead
Spirit Guardians
Vampiric Touch