The Problem with D&D Necromancers

It's Halloween and you know what that means. It's time to get marginally more scary than usual. The necromancer is a fantasy staple. Evil wizard with creative ideas as to what should be done with grandma now that she's no longer with us has gotten the role of villain in basically every fantasy thing under

the sun. So, it's no wonder that they are in D and D too. And in D and D, necromancers are not great to play as for players or to pit against your friends for DMs. They just never reach their full potential. So, what if we took these very bad, no good wizards and

made them a thousand times cooler for both players and DMs? For this Halloween themed episode of Pointy Hat, I'm going to tell you the history of the necromancer in Dn D, both as a player option and as an enemy. And then we're changing them completely so they live up to that potential. I'm Antono. This is

Pointy Hat, and we're talking necromancy in this brand new episode of an undisclosed pointy hat series. You'll see. So, when I think of necromancers, I think of >> Good day. I'm Bob the Necromancer and today we're doing an unboxing. >> Necromancers are for people that side with the boss in undercover boss and

teens that fantasize about how sad everyone will be at their funeral. I know you're out there. I know what you are. So, extremely quick crash course on what necromancy actually is. In DND, a necromancer is a wizard. That's a D and D class that studies a particular school of magic. Pay attention because we're

100% using this leader a lot. In D and D, there are eight major schools of magic. No, you magical girl transformation sequence, economy breaker speedrun, Etsy witchery, the factually most evil one from a moral standpoint, gun, gaslighting, despicable me, ace attorney, and of course, necromancy. So, a necromancer is just a wizard that