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[SHAD0Wdump]

I'm wondering what sort of games exist where you deal with the dead.
 Anything goes, from necromancy to maggots feeding off of carrion. I want to be that necromancer, or be that maggot. Strange request I know, but still.

Games with graphics are a bonus.

[Pathos]

Well, I'd like this too.

There was a Warcraft 3 singleplayer RPG map that had you as a revenant of death with an abomination companion. It was pretty epic, especially as they did stuff like transformed the grass around you into dead land.

There're a few mods for both Morrowind and Oblivion that fit the concept, too.

Don't know of any games, though.

Wait, I know of one game. You've got Dominions 3, in which you can play as a god of death of Late Age Ermor and slowly transform the world into an army of undead. Bonus points for the 5k undead armies you can move whilst everyone else has 500 units.

[Hugehead]

Doungen crawl stone soup necromancer class. Also I think that theres a morrowind mod that has you BEING a necromancer and doing rituals and stuff. Beat me to the post Pathos.

[ChairmanPoo]

ANY class can learn necromancy in stone soup.

Also Ydremuul, the evil god of the undead. Allows you to raise dead without necromancy.
You miss out some of the cooler necromancy effects, though.

[Bluerobin]

Well, technically Ghost Master fits the bill as you're commanding ghosts and scaring people out of places. A fair number of MMOs have necromancer classes (Everquest 1 and 2 and WoW has Deathknights with ghouls and stuff). Umm... OH Left 4 Dead 1 or 2 or both has multiplayer modes that let you play as the zombies.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Looking at stone soup right now, looks interesting so far. (only read a tiny bit at this point)

[Farce]

Stubbs the Zombie.

[Calhoun]

Stubbs the Zombie.

Seconded. If nothing else, it's a fun game.

[dogstile]

Stubbs the Zombie.

Seconded. If nothing else, it's a fun game.

Thirded. Its also hilarious.

[Dakk]

Age of Wonders has the undead race, though you usualy only get to control them on the 2nd half of the game (this counts for the original game and sequels). You can control them without having to play alot if you just pick a map, make your own wizard and start playing. I recommend the original game because its simpler and easier to start with, and you'll likely find the full thing to download for free out there.

Planescape Torment's main character is sort of undead, and you start the game in what could be interpretated as the realm of the dead inside hell.

[Virex]

Heroes of Might and Magic also let you play as the undead. Most games even have abilities for your hero to raise a part of the troops that died in battle as undead to fight for you.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Geist has you playing as a ghost man who's soul and body are forcefuly seperated. The Void takes place in an afterlife. I think. It's hard to tell with a game like The Void.

[dogstile]

Spellforce, the order of dawn. I had a necromancer character. Its an RTSRPG also, which is an awesome combination. My favourite pasttime is to set up a base in a conquered level and design patrol routes, etc.

EDIT: Oh, the necromancer class has a fun glitch too, where you can make as many workers as you can support and about 20 top tier archers. You press delete on the workers which kills them (hopefully they're all as close together as possible, in a circle) and you try and cast resurrection as many times as possible which gives you a good 160 tiny meatshield skeletons. Its AWESOME and any boss is screwed, as they aim for your meatshields rather than your damage dealers.

[Virtz]

Legacy of Kain series has you controlling a vampire in Blood Omen and a soul-eating former vampire thing in Soul Reaver.

[nenjin]

Just going to link this, most of the same suggestions are being made.