Necromancy School

Necromancy School is one of the subclasses of Wizard. These Wizards are specialized in powers of death, allowing them to protect themselves from harm and raise undead minions to serve them.

Subclass features[edit section | visual editor]

This subclass obtains all the features from its base class, Wizard, in addition to its unique features outlined below.

Level 2[edit section | visual editor]

Necromancy Savant: Halves the cost to learn Necromancy spells from Scrolls. Learning these spells will only cost  25 gp per spell level.

Grim Harvest: Once per turn, if you kill a creature with a spell, you regain Hit Points equal to twice the Spell Slot level used - thrice if it's a Necromancy spell. Undead and Constructs are unaffected.

Level 6[edit section | visual editor]

Undead Thralls: Animate Dead: You gain the  Animate Dead spell, if you didn't have it already

Undead Thralls: Additional Undead: When you use  Animate Dead, you can raise an additional corpse.

Undead Thralls: Better Summons: Creatures created with  Animate Dead have additional hit points equal to your wizard level, and your Proficiency Bonus is added to their damage.

Level 10[edit section | visual editor]

Inured to Undeath: You have steeped yourself so completely in death that you are Resistant to Necrotic damage, and moreover your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.

Necromancy Wizard Spells[edit section | visual editor]

Name	Level	Duration	Range/Area	Attack/Save	Damage/Effect
Bone Chill	C	1 turn	18 m / 60ft	Attack Roll	1d8 ⁠Necrotic
Bursting Sinew	C	-	18 m / 60 ft  3m / 10ft (Radius)	DEX Save	1d10 ⁠Piercing
Toll the Dead	C	-	18 m / 60 ft	WIS Save	1d12 ⁠Necrotic
False Life	1	Long Rest	Self	-	-
Ray of Sickness	1	2 turns	18 m / 60 ft	Attack Roll  CON Save	2d8 ⁠Poison
Blindness	2	10 turns	18 m / 60 ft	CON Save	-
Ray of Enfeeblement	2	10 turns	18 m / 60 ft	Attack Roll	-
Animate Dead	3	-	3 m / 10ft	-	-
Bestow Curse	3	-	1.5 m / 5 ft	WIS Save	-
Feign Death	3	10 turns	1.5 m / 5ft	-	-
Vampiric Touch	3	10 turns	1.5 m / 5 ft	Attack Roll	3d6 ⁠Necrotic
Blight	4	-	9 m / 30ft	CON Save	8d8 ⁠Necrotic
Circle of Death	6	-	18 m / 60ft  9m / 30ft (Radius)	CON Save	8d6 ⁠Necrotic
Create Undead	6	-	3 m / 10ft	-	-
Eyebite	6	-	18 m / 60ft	WIS Save	-

Notable Wizards of the Necromancy School[edit section | visual editor]

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Subclasses	Abjuration School Bladesinging Conjuration School Divination School Enchantment School Evocation School Illusion School Necromancy School Transmutation School
Spells	Abjuration  Conjuration  Divination  Enchantment  Evocation  Illusion  Necromancy  Transmutation
Other class features	Arcane Recovery  Arcane Ward  Benign Transposition: Teleport  Bladesong  Empowered Evocation  Experimental Alchemy  Expert Divination  Extra Attack  Focused Conjuration  Grim Harvest  Hypnotic Gaze  Illusory Self  Improved Abjuration  Improved Minor Illusion  Instinctive Charm  Inured to Undeath  Minor Conjuration: Create Water  Portent  Potent Cantrip  Projected Ward  Sculpt Spells  See Invisibility  Shapechanger  Song of Defence  Split Enchantment  Third Eye: Darkvision  Third Eye: See Invisibility  Training in War and Song  Transmuter's Stone Undead Thralls  Animate Dead  Additional Undead  Better Summons