Which is better: dead raising necromancy, or black magic necromancy? Which is stronger in your system of choice? Which is more fun?
Not /tg/ related, but Guild Wars 1 is one of the few places where I feel necromancers were done right.
>gaining strength from death
>blood magic
>using life to fuel magic
>curses
>raising undead minions
>death magic
And then you had ritualists in GW:Factions, which were pretty much shadow priests who communed with the dead, summoned spirits of the dead, and used spirit based magic.
>>44292711
I've always liked the Raising the Dead Necromancy.
Haven't played them in many PnP unfortunately, but in Rift I really liked how they portrayed the class and their abilities. Undead minions, of course, but with crippling spells and debuffs. Probably one of the coolest things was they could convert Death damage inflicted on enemies into healing for themselves and their pet.
>>44292711
Personally I prefer neither. I like necromancy as magic related to the spirits of the dead, and necromancers as people who put down zombies and spectres for a living. So, pic related.
>>44295484
I really liked the "levels of death" concept in these books, as well as opening the different gates.
Other than that, pretty mediocre.
True happiness is an army of undying loyal minions.
>>44296002
I really enjoyed the setting, it was a great intro to fantasy in my youth. I really enjoyed the mix between the two worlds, the new book was a bit lackluster.
>>44295347
GW1 was pretty excellent in many, many ways.
>>44296913
I heard the GW:Factions log in music the other day, Factions being where I started playing, and I felt so sad because one of the best online games is pretty much dead now.
>>44292711
Ideally, both. Create an army, use your own magic to inflict death and disease.
>>44297022
Ah man. I feel you, family. I started way back when Prophecies first came out. I haven't logged on in, god I don't remember when I last logged on now.
>>44292711
I think the better question is whether necromancy is decay magic or anti-life magic
Could you use necromancy to sterilise a scalpel?
