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#1 cfreeley Mar 04, 2011 21:08:47	I know this might sound kind of silly, but... the goal of necromancy and the ultimate goals of most liches is to use magic to simulate life, essentially. Shadow magic animates dead bones or sketchy rituals create an immortal, undead being (phylacteries aside).  So, would it be a viable story plot to have a necromancer (or ex-necromancer) try and acheive immortality by creating true life. Like, by channeling primal spirits of fey magic to simulate the elemental spark, or whatever (I'm working off the two paragraphs on the DM's guide, give me some slack >.>) and create a sort of fountain of youth type magical energy that he could harness to constantly regenerate his cells and revive dead creatures into actually living creatures. I just feel like it would be fitting for someone to be obsessed with undeath to be obsessed with life in general. And more importantly, he could have cool nature controlling plant manipulation powers. (I suppose this is kind of similar to some of the primal classes, but I don't really like the primal flavor) What do you think?
#2 Krusk Mar 05, 2011 11:06:38	Go for it? Sounds like it could be a neat adventure.
#3 buchatar Mar 06, 2011 10:57:44	So, in essence you're on about "Poison Ivy" from Batman? -grin- Bane would be an amazing boss fight... Anyway, either way, go for it. It has potential.
#4 Aetharion Mar 07, 2011 14:33:33	More than anything else, this sounds just like primal powers, but with the arcane power source. Sounds pretty neat, but focus on the fact that this biomancer is unique among his kind, and that most other necromancers are power-hungry wizards wanting shortcuts to learning about manipulating life. Interesting fact: The players from a game I'm DM'ing recently called a cultist a cultivist by accident, and laughed a lot about how he was supposed to grow magical plants etc. Pretty funny in relation to this, seeing that he was actually a necromancer in disguise.
#5 hellfrozenover Mar 26, 2011 16:47:17	I started an idea similar to that and heres how it went . the PC's had to evacuate a town slowly being submerged into water ( from a previous adventure , the water was flowing with necromatic energy from a previus adventure ) and people who fell into the water came out as zombie  Now to answer your question : the necromancer was uding dead bodies , taking out the vitals and restitching them together , but he failed many times , and the result were normal sized humanoids , but were heavily ugly and scared and were givin masks . He uses fey magic to give them life , but because of his necratic taint , they simply turned into flesh bound spirits . they were spirits , but they had physical form and all the traits of undead , but each had incredible intelligence , endurance and will . When injured , they take parts of other dead beings and merge it with themselves always regenerating , 3 were made altogether and each went their own way after the events of "The NecroTombs"  . In my head concept of them , they look something like this
#6 paulstrait Mar 27, 2011 20:58:27	One day, I will become the greatest Jedi ever.  I will even learn how to stop people from dying...