The True Necromancer - Chapter 1 - How to Incorporate a True Necromancer Into Your Adventures

Oct 6, 2026

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A dark fantasy RPG supplement chapter introducing a “True Necromancer” archetype and its methods. It explains how true necromancers truly command life and death, manipulate positive and negative energy, draw vitality from enemies, raise undead bone and tissue, and call back souls. It also frames the class as intensely practical, blending arcane understanding with bodily intuition and willpower, and includes creator commentary and content warnings about death, body horror, torture, and possession.

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Pages51

Reading Time19 min

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Chapter 1. How to Incorporate a True Necromancer Into Your Adventures

Creating a True Necromancer

Dark Designs

True Necromancer Spell List

Appendix A: Undead Servants

Appendix B: Magic Items

Appendix C: Rites of Undeath

1 The True Necromancer Class Anda Brief History of Undeath Index: Chapter 1. How to Incorporate a True Necromancer Into Your Adventures Chapter 2. Creating a True Necromancer Chapter 3. Dark Designs. Chapter 4. True Necromancer Spell List Appendix A: Undead Servants Appendix B: Magic Items Appendix C: Rites ofUndeath Credits Written by Nausicaä Enriquez (@shipburner) & Travis Vengroff (@VenTravis) Co-Designed by Kai Linder (@Paradoliak) Art by Marcel Mercado (@MarcelEMercado) Additional Art provide by Brian Snoddy, Casey Bailey, Dean Spencer, the DM’s Guild, and Creative Commons Works Symbols by James Adam Cartwright (created for Dark Dice) Formatting by Zach Hero (Parcel Studios) Created by Fool and Scholar Productions as part of the Dark Dice podcast Playtesters via The Fool & Scholar Productions Patreon Content Warnings: This supplement includes themes of death, mortality, undeath, and body horror, and mentions cannibalism, desecration of the dead, physical and spiritual torture, and possession. Special Thanks: Audsbot for talking about the ethics of necromancy, Hyacinth Davidson, Alastair Lloyd, and the Excarnate system for being my wonderful motivating bone emperoxes, the Deimos Jazz Club for being great friends and gaymers, Ripley McArthur as consultant from the undead-American community, James Mendez Hodes for his article on anti-Asian racism in games, Kate Bullock for her article on consent and charm spells, the Fool & Scholar Patreon team, and Tamsyn Muir for inspiration. This book draws on material from Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Exploring Eberron, Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica, Heroes of Horror, Memorial Pages “Facts: What Happens To A Body After Death”, Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Red Boxed Set, Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, Unearthed Arcana “The Mystic”, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. The True Necromancer Chapter 1. How to Incorporate a True Necromancer Into Your Adventures A tiefling brushes a sweat-slicked curl from her face, panting behind an interlocked wall of scapulae. The colossus hammersat her defenses, and she smiles. Every bone splinter lodged in its flesh is one more seam along which to tear it open. The tyrant’s knights line up across the field, armor and weapons gleaming, horses snorting. They laugh and jeer at the lone halfling who strolls out to meet them, whistling. He raises his hands: the earth erupts with small, twisted figures, and in seconds his fallen friends and family get their grim revenge. Rain beats down around a half-elf in gray, hunched over a corpse. Another day in the City of Towers, another murder--but where other inquisitives might scrape blood into a vial and begin unpicking the puzzle, they swing a crystal back and forth. Their eyes fill with blue light as they start getting the victim’s side of the story. A ny dilettante with the right grimoire can claim to be a necromancer, but true necromancers don’t just study the secrets of life and death – they command them. True necromancers manipulate the flow of positive and negative energy in the world to control magic, redirect vitality from their enemies to their allies, call on their own vitality to raise dead bone and tissue to life, or beckon the souls of the deceased back into the world. At the apex of their power, true necromancers begin to resemble the undead themselves, and can even work their worst magic on the living – after all, inside every living person, there’s a skeleton waiting to get out. In Dying, Life For spellcasters, true necromancers are intensely practical. Raw talent can only give you so much power, arcane theory can only get you so much control – to blend them together, you need to know what grave dirt feels like under your fingernails, what the pop of wrist joints clicking into place sounds like, and the numbness of life slipping out from your own body into that of somebody else. The twin force

FAQs

What makes a necromancer “true” in this chapter?

True necromancers don’t just study life and death; they command them—manipulating positive and negative energy, transferring vitality, raising undead, and beckoning souls back into the world.

How do true necromancers work for spellcasters in practical terms?

They require both raw talent and arcane control, supported by tactile intuition and decisive will, blending growth and decay into controllable magic.

What content warnings are mentioned for this supplement?

It includes themes of death, mortality, undeath, and body horror, and it mentions cannibalism, desecration of the dead, physical and spiritual torture, and possession.

Oct 6, 2026

Upload by Hazel