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Author Topic: The Downside of Necromancy  (Read 4681 times)

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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2012, 02:15:04 am »

i had a necromancer master archer.... sit back and snipe out enemies while your horde feasts on their brains.... dorf style
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Tales of the Third Age, 34.11 rp stories from Genesis Reborn

“Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place. And stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”

-Deadhouse Gates (Book 2 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson

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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2012, 02:45:37 am »

I had some mixed success with a squad of alligators (rounded out by a single named giant tiger). I would wander into a bandit camp, sneak, and wait until everyone died, then go back to town and report my success (often to someone who was being munched by aforementioned giant tiger).
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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2012, 02:59:33 am »

If you carry some severed hands or heads in your pack, you can throw them close to distant enemies and then animate the body part. This can be used to distract enemy archers while you safely hide behind a tree. Said enemy archers are my leading cause of death in this version.

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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2012, 03:12:24 am »

If you carry some severed hands or heads in your pack, you can throw them close to distant enemies and then animate the body part. This can be used to distract enemy archers while you safely hide behind a tree.

This... this is brilliant.
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When I was reorganizing my inventory to fit all by books on life and death into various bags and things, I looked at my inventory and saw that I was multigrasping a necromancer slab.  It was pretty hilarious.
I think that would be an excellent way to impart the critical lessons of life and death to the ignorant masses.

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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2012, 05:00:34 am »

So I found a slab with the secrets of life and death randomly lying around in a fortress. Naturally, the first thing I did was slaughter a pack of wolves, raise them, slaughter some bears, raise them, slaughter some bandits, raise THEM, then went off to REALLY raise some hell.

Since I no longer had to sleep, and my new companions kept the bogeymen away, I wandered all day and all night. Eventually, I got ambushed.

By ALL THE KOBOLDS.

There were seriously like fifty kobolds, half of them bowmen. I couldn't reraise my fallen minions fast enough, and eventually got shot and killed by a "silver" (more like depleted uranium) arrow through my iron helm.

So yeah. I'm assuming ambush size is related to party size? Because if so, don't be wandering around with fifty corpses. They aren't really durable.
I laughed so hard at the "ALL THE KOBOLDS" comment.
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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2012, 12:03:32 pm »

So I found a slab with the secrets of life and death randomly lying around in a fortress. Naturally, the first thing I did was slaughter a pack of wolves, raise them, slaughter some bears, raise them, slaughter some bandits, raise THEM, then went off to REALLY raise some hell.

Since I no longer had to sleep, and my new companions kept the bogeymen away, I wandered all day and all night. Eventually, I got ambushed.

By ALL THE KOBOLDS.

There were seriously like fifty kobolds, half of them bowmen. I couldn't reraise my fallen minions fast enough, and eventually got shot and killed by a "silver" (more like depleted uranium) arrow through my iron helm.

So yeah. I'm assuming ambush size is related to party size? Because if so, don't be wandering around with fifty corpses. They aren't really durable.

Actually I'm almost 100% sure that ambushing is NOT based on party size. I say this because like 15 human soldiers would ambush my crossbow part of 3 (me included), while 10 goblins would attack my 50+ necromancy party. Hm, weird.
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Re: The Downside of Necromancy
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2012, 01:00:26 pm »

The irony is that at the same time, somehow while one human I'm attacking in order to gain more minions for my evergrowing army can take out 50 fucking zombie humans, it can be hell to fight even 25 of the damned things yourself.
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