ShadowdarkNecromancer Class

Written by:
Josh Conkel

Artwork by:
Jose Eduardo “Jegs” Gonzalez
Yuri Perkowski Domingos
 Necromancer Class
Tragic sorcerors, vengeful mages. Spellcasting. You can cast
Tinkerers in the powers of life and Necromancer spells you know
death. using INT modifier.

Weapons: Dagger, staff LV 1: You know three tier 1 spells of

Armor: Leather
Hit Points: 1d4 per level
Languages. You speak Common and
Diabolic.
Learning Spells. You can
permanently learn a Necromancer
spell from a spell scroll by studying
it for a day and succeeding on a
DC 15 Intelligence check.
your choice from the Necromancer
spell list (included) in addition to
Animate Dead.
Each time you gain a level, you
choose new Necromancer
spells to learn according to the
Necromancer Spells Known table.
For casting Necromancer spells,
see Spellcasting on pg. 44.

Whether you succeed or fail, you

expend the spell scroll.

Spells you learn in this way don’t

count toward your known spells.

CLASS TALENTS
2d6 Effect
2 Double the undead created with Animate/Create Undead
3-6 +2 to Intelligence stat or +1 to necromancer spellcasting checks
7-9 Gain advantage on casting one spell you know
10-11 Learn one additional necromancer spell of any tier
12 Choose a talent or +2 points to distribute to stats

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 CLASS SPELLS KNOWN
Spells Known By Spell Tier

Level 1 2 3 4 5
1 3 - - - -
2 4 - - - -
3 4 1 - - -
4 4 2 - - -
5 4 2 1 - -
6 4 3 2 - -
7 4 3 2 1 -
8 4 4 2 2 -
9 4 4 3 2 1
10 4 4 4 2 2

NECROMANCER TITLES
Level Lawful Chaotic Neutral
1-2 - Conjurer Acolyte
3-4 - Hexer Occultist
5-6 - Death Worker Thaumaturgist
7-8 - Death Lord Cunning One
9-10 - The Merciless Arch Necromancer

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 Spells

Tier 1 Tier 4
• Animate Dead • Arcane Eye
• Borrow Life • Become Spider
• Detect Magic • Blood Bubble
• Dreaful Doll • Boneskin
• Ghostlight • Cloudkill
• Hex • Passwall
• Mesmerize • Regenerate
• Protection from Virtue • Scrying
• Shivers • Swarm
• Sleep • Telekenisis

Tier 2 Tier 5
• Alter Self • Antimagic Shell
• Augury • Banish to Beyond
• Bile • Borrow Essence
• Blind/Deafen • Heal
• Dead Eyes • Plane Shift
• Detect Thoughts • Power Word Kill
• Invisibility • Primsatic Orb
• Silence • Pulverize
• Speak With Dead • Resurrect
• Web • Shape Change
• Undead Army
Tier 3
• Bat Wings
• Become Fog
• Control Beast
• Conjure Wight
• Dispel Magic
• Divination
• Fireball
• Frighten the Living
• Protection from Energy
• Pyrokinesis

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 Spells

Tier 1

Animate Dead Dreadful Doll

Duration: 1 day Duration: Focus

Range: Close Range: Close

You touch one humanoid’s remains, and
it rises as a zombie or skeleton under your
control.
The remains must have at least three limbs
and its head intact. The undead creature
acts on your turn. After 1 day, the creature
collapses into grave dust.
Borrow Life
Duration: Instant
You magically lift one humanoid creature
of LV 2 or less into the air and are able
to hold them there, manipulating thier
appendages, as long as you can hold
concentration. They cannot move or act of
their own free will.
They can attempt to end the spell on each
turn with a WIS check vs. last spellcasting
check.
Ghostlight
Duration: 1 hour real time

Range: Close Range: Close

Touch one living with 4 or more HP. Take 1d4
HP from them, hold the lifeforce in your hands
with concentration, then touch another living
creature to transfer the HP.
You conjure an incorporeal will o’ wisp
that provides you with pale white light.
When casting with a INT check of 18 or
higher, the light may guide you in the right
direction if asked.

Detect Magic Hex

Duration: Focus Duration: Instant

Range: Near Range: Near

You can sense the presence of magic
within near range for the spell’s duration.
If you focus for two rounds, you discern its
general properties. Full barriers block this
spell.
One humanoid or creature has
disadvantage on all attack rolls for 1d4
rounds.

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 Mesmerize
Duration: 1 day
Range: Near
Staring deep into the eyes of a humanoid
LV 2 or less, you say soothing words to
them, which awe them to such depths
they become enthralled to you. They either
stand in place as if in a trance or follow
simple orders.
The spell ends if you or your
allies do anything to hurt it that
it notices.
The target knows you magically
enchanted it after the spell ends.
Protection from Virtue
Duration: Focus
Range: Near
For the spell’s duration, lawful humanoids
have disadvantage on attack rolls and
hostile spellcasting checks against the
target. These beings also can’t possess,
compel, or beguile it.
Sleep
Duration: Instant
Range: Near
You weave a lulling spell that fills a near-
sized cube extending from you. Living
creatures in the area of effect fall into a
deep sleep if they are LV 2 or less. Vigorous
shaking or being injured wakes them.
Alter Self
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Self
You magically change your physical form,
gaining one feature that modifies your
existing anatomy.
For example, you can grow functional gills
on your neck or bear claws on your fingers.
This spell can’t grow wings or limbs.
Augury
Duration: Instant
Range: Self
You interpret the meaning
of supernatural portents and
omens.
Ask the GM one question about
a specific course of action. The
GM says whether the action will
lead to “weal” or “woe.”
Bile
Duration: Instant
Range: Near
You call down a river of black bile on a
creature you can see within range. It takes
1d8 necrotic damage, is stuck in bile, and
cannot move until passing a DEX check DC
15.
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 Invisibility
Duration: 10 rounds

Blind/Deafen
Duration: Focus
Range: Near
You utter a hateful censure, blinding or
deafening one creature you can see in
range. The creature has disadvantage
on tasks requiring the lost sense.
Dead Eyes
Duration: Focus
Range: Far
Your eyes go white as you touch a corpse
and project your mind into it. You see and
hear what is happeningaround the corpse
for 1 hour per level. Also works on the
Undead, provided they aren’t intelligent.
Caster can leave the corpse and move up
to 5 miles away from the corpse while still
retaining the ability to see/hear through it.
Range: Close
A creature you touch becomes invisible for
the spell’s duration. The spell ends if the
target attacks or casts a spell.
Silence
Duration: Focus
Range: Far
You magically mute sound in a near cube
within the spell’s range. Creatures inside
the area are deafened, and any sounds
they create cannot be heard.
Speak With Dead
Duration: Focus
Range: Close
A dead body you touch answers your
questions in a distant, wheezing voice.
You can ask the dead body up to three yes
or no questions (one at a time). The GM
truthfully answers “yes” or “no” to each.

If you cast this spell more than once in 24

Detect Thoughts hours, treat a failed spellcasting check for
Duration: Focus it as a critical failure instead.

Range: Near

You peer into the mind of one creature

you can see within range. Each round, you
learn the target’s immediate thoughts.

On its turn, the target makes a Wisdom

check vs. your last spellcasting check. If the
target succeeds, it notices your presence in
its mind and the spell ends.

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 Web
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Far
You create a near-sized cube of sticky,
dense spider web within the spell’s range.
A creature stuck in the web can’t move
and must succeed on a Strength check vs.
your spellcasting check
to free itself.
Bat Wings
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Self
You sprout large, leathery wings and take
to the air like a bat. You can fly near for the
spell’s duration, and cling to/climb on walls
and ceilings.
Become Fog
Duration: 10 rounds
Range: Self
You and your gear turn into a thick, low
hanging fog for the spell’s duration.
You can pass through pass through any
gap that smoke could. You can sense the
terrain and any movement around you out
to a near distance. Any being within the
fog cannot see and rolls disadvantage on
checks requiring sight.
You can’t cast spells while in this
form.
Conjure Wight
Duration: 1 day
Range: Close
You conjure a Wight to do your bidding.
It appears next to you and is under your
control.
The Wight acts on your turn. After 1 day, it
melts away into smoke.
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 Fireball
Duration: Instant

Range: Far
Control Beast
Duration: Focus You hurl a small flame that erupts into a
fiery blast. All creatures in a near-sized
Range: Far cube around where the flame lands
take 4d6 damage. On next turn, can add
Your eyes go white as you latch onto the Pyrokinesis (see below) on successful
soul of a creature of LV 6 or lower. You spellcasting check.
decide its actions during its
turn. Frighten the Living
Dispel Magic Duration: Instant
Duration: Instant Range: Near
Range: Near All living things within near range of you
must immediately make a morale check.
End one spell that affects one target you This spell does not affect creatures that are
can see in range. immune to morale checks.

Divination Protection from Energy

Duration: Instant Duration: Focus

Range: Self Range: Close

You throw the divining bones or peer into
the blackness between the stars, seeking a
portent.
You can ask the GM one yes or no question.
The GM truthfully answers “yes” or “no.”
One creature you touch becomes
impervious to the wild fury of the
elements. Choose fire, cold, or electricity.
For the spell’s duration, the target is
immune to harm from energy of the
chosen type.

If you cast this spell more than once in 24

Pyrokinesis
hours, treat a failed spellcasting check for
it as a critical failure instead. Duration: Focus

Range: Far

You can move and shape fire. You may

cause a section of fire up to 20 feet in
width and height to change shape or flow
in a different direction. It can move roughly
the same speed as you (near.)

Any creature caught in fire takes 4d6

damage.
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 Arcane Eye
Duration: Focus
Range: Near
You conjure an invisible, grapesized eye
within range. You can see through the eye.
It can see in the dark out to near range, fly
near on your turn, and squeeze through
openings as narrow as a keyhole.
Become Spider
Duration: 10 rounds
Range: Self
You sprout eight spindly spider legs and
can climb walls and ceilings. You may
continue to cast spells in this form and
have ADV on casting Web for the duration.
Bite. You can bite a living creature (their
DEX vs your spellcasting check) to paralyze
them.
Blood Bubble
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Self
You lift your hands, conjuring a crimson
bubble of blood around yourself. Its thin
wall must be contiguous and creates a
close-sized bubble around you.
The bubble moves with you and nothing
on the same plane can physically pass
through its walls.
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Boneskin
Duration: 10 rounds
Range: Self
Your conjure armor that appears to be
made of bone. For the spell’s duration, your
armor class becomes 17 (20 on a critical
spellcasting check).
Cloudkill
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Far
A putrid cloud of yellow poison fills a near-
sized cube within range. It spreads around
corners.
Creatures inside the cloud are blinded and
take 2d6 damage at the beginning of their
turns.
A creature of LV 9 or less that ends its turn
fully inside the cloud dies.
Passwall
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Close
A tunnel of your height opens in a barrier
you touch and lasts for the duration. The
passage can be up to near distance in
length and must be in a straight line.
 Regenerate
Duration: Focus
Range: Close
A creature you touch regains 1d4 hit points You transform into a swarm of bats, rats,
on your turn for the duration. This spell also centipedes, snakes, or spiders. (See stat
regrows lost body parts.
Scrying
Duration: Focus
Range: Self
You look into a reflective surface, calling up
images of a distant place.
For the spell’s duration, you can see and
hear a creature or location you choose that
is on the same plane.
This spell is DC 18 to cast if you try to scry
on a creature or location that is unfamiliar
to you.
Each round, creatures you view may make
a Wisdom check vs. your last spellcasting
check. On a success, they become aware of
your magical observation.
Swarm
Duration: 5 rounds
Range: Self
blocks.)
You attack as the swarm and use the
swarms hit points. Any failed swarm
attacks still give half damage to victims.
When the swarm’s HP fall to 0, you
transform back into your humanoid self,
incurring none of the damage given to the
swarm.
Telekinesis
Duration: Focus
Range: Far
You lift a creature or object with your mind.
Choose a target that weighs 1,000 pounds
or less. You can move it a near distance in
any direction and hold it in place.
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Antimagic Shell
Duration: Focus
Range: Self
An invisible, near-sized cube of null-magic
appears centered on you.
Within the cube, no spells can be cast.
Magic items and spells have no effect in
the zone, and
no magic can enter.
The cube moves with you. Spells such as
dispel magic have no effect on it.
Another antimagic shell does not affect
this one.
Banish to Beyond
Duration: Instant
Range: Close
You instantly banish a creature you touch,
sending it and all possessions it carries to a
hellish dimension.
You can banish an intelligent creature of
LV 10 or less.
When the creature returns in 5 rounds,
it has been reduced to 1 hit point and
automatically fails a morale check.
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Borrow Essence
Duration: Instant
Range: Close
A creature you touch has a random stat
reduced to 3 (-4) for one week.
Roll a d6 to determine which stat:
1. Strength, 2. Dexterity, 3. Constitution,
4. Intelligence, 5. Wisdom, 6. Charisma.
Inveresely, the same stat increases to 18
(+4) for you. It lasts the same week.
Heal
Duration: Instant
Range: Close
One creature you touch is healed to full hit
points. You cannot cast this spell again
until you complete a rest.
Plane Shift
Duration: Instant
Range: Close
You fold space and time, transporting
yourself and a willing creatures within
close range to a location on another
plane of your choice.
Unless you have been to your intended
location before, you appear in a random
place on the destination plane.

Power Word Kill
Duration: Instant
Range: Near
You utter the Word of Doom. One creature
you target of LV 9 or less dies if it hears you.
Treat a failed spellcasting check for this
spell as a critical failure, and roll the
mishap with disadvantage.
Prismatic Orb
Duration: Instant
Range: Far
You send a strobing orb of energy
streaking toward a target within range.
Choose an energy type from fire, cold, or
electricity. The orb deals 3d8 damage and
delivers a concussive blast of the chosen
energy type.
If the energy type is anathema to the
target’s existence (for example, cold energy
against a fire elemental), the orb deals
double damage to it instead.
Pulverize
Duration: Instant
Range: Far
A crimson ray shoots from your finger and
explodes a creature or object. A creature
becomes blood and gore and slippery to
walk through.
A target creature of LV 5 or less instantly
dies. If it is LV 6+, it takes 3d8 damage
instead but does not explode. A non-
magical object up to the size of a large tree
is destroyed.
Resurrect
Duration: Instant
Range: Far
The caster may bring back one soul from
beyond the grave, but must provide a
sacrifice one soul of equal level to do so.
The ritual takes three rounds to cast and
may only be cast once in a lifetime.
Shape Change
Duration: Focus
Range: Self
You transform yourself and any gear you
carry into another natural creature you’ve
seen of level 10 or less.
You assume the creature’s physical stats
and features, but you retain your non-
physical stats and features (including INT,
WIS, and CHA).
If you go to 0 HP while under the effects of
this spell, you revert to your true form at 1
HP.
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 Undead Army
Duration: 10 rounds

Range: Near

You conjure an army of skeletons to your

aid. Create 1d4 per caster level. They
carry whatever weapon they died with. If
uknown, assume a weapon that causes 1d6
damage, such as a shortsword or mace.

They act on your turn and return to the

afterlife after 10 rounds.

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 Credits
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