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| Mummy Dust!; Feedback! Questions! | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 23 2017, 08:19 AM (1,248 Views) | |
| phantomhermit | Jun 26 2017, 09:40 PM Post #31 |
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Bench Gremlin
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On a side note: some special evil races have any for preferred class, while their equivalent have cleric or paladin- limiting the build possibility (without extreme difficulty) and sort of pigeon holing the "goody two shoes" races. More love for good PC's would be nice, but I rarely encounter them, despite normally playing as one . . . whether it is because of the lack of options or because people prefer RP something other than "Lawful Stupid." ((I rp lawful good alot as "innocent until proven evil" type thing, even with paladin and have a blast finding the dichotomies and just what my character is willing to bend on without breaking entirely. Rabbit trail. Sorry.)) I am very pleased to have access to what awesomeness is employed and added by the builder team and use it within rp-perspective such as Osiris LG mummy rp fun. To the subject at hand: Mummy Dust! Perhaps it could have a material component to cast . . . and turns into a non-tradable henchman? Like a golem, but "bound" to the one that formed it? |
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| Sinlinara | Jun 27 2017, 01:59 AM Post #32 |
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I wouldn't mind seeing every race's favored class be Any myself. . . :rolleyes: |
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| SyntheticRose | Jun 27 2017, 11:17 AM Post #33 |
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Resident Flower Girl
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Pathfinder favoured classes please! |
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| Mezzy | Jun 27 2017, 11:35 AM Post #34 |
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Rule of 7
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Don't think it does, but necrotic might; Does it improve the mummy? Second; Should it improve the mummy as the feat description surely points out you make more powerful undeads. Mummy is undead. Rule of three; Why the mummy hatin'? You pick the feat, or you don't pick the feat. And necromancy is not evil. Used to be the school for healing spells too, which makes more sense than what the school of healing is now. |
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| Allatum | Jun 27 2017, 12:06 PM Post #35 |
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Blood
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#NecroLivesMatter |
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| Ariella | Jun 27 2017, 12:55 PM Post #36 |
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Player-Side Admin
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This pretty much sums up my point of view. That said if it is currently the most powerful summon that is entirely unintentional and it will be re-balanced. During my testing the mummy could just defeat Gate but was easily dispatched by epic gate. This is the position in terms of power it was meant to sit within. |
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| Mick64 | Jun 28 2017, 12:35 AM Post #37 |
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Necromancy in general is not evil. Raising undead specifically is Evil. Casting Vampiric Feast is not Evil. Casting Mummy Dust is. |
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| Vehk | Jun 28 2017, 12:55 AM Post #38 |
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Vampiric Feast Spell Information Spell level : Innate level: Epic School : Necromancy Descriptor(s) : Evil |
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| Mick64 | Jun 28 2017, 01:17 AM Post #39 |
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This is what I get for not doing my research there. :lol: Alright, replace Vampiric Feast with most-necromantic-spells-that-don't-raise-undead. |
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| Artifice | Jun 28 2017, 06:24 AM Post #40 |
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Most necromancy spells aren't evil? Like animate dead, bestow curse, blight, blindness/deafness, cause fear, chill touch, circle of death, command undead, contagion, create greater undead, curse water, death knell, demise unseen, destruction, doom, energy drain, enervation, eyebite, fear, finger of death, ghoul touch, harm, horrid wilding, inflict critical wounds, inflict light wounds, inflict minor wounds, inflict moderate wounds, inflict serious wounds, magic jar, mass inflict critical wounds, mass inflict light wounds, mass inflict moderate wounds, mass inflict serious wounds, momento mori, mummy dust, pestilence, poison, ray of enfeeblement, ray of exhaustion, scare, slay, slay living, soul bind, symbol of death, symbol of fear, symbol of pain, symbol of weakness, touch of fatigue, vampiric touch, wail of the banshee, waves of exhaustion and waves of fatigue? WotC actually deliberately moved the cure spells out of necromancyin the transition from AD&D to D&D specifically so that necromancy would be unambiguously evil. I think it was a good decision. |
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| Embersworn | Jun 28 2017, 07:26 AM Post #41 |
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Blargh!
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Spell is qualified as "evil" only if it has "evil" in its descriptor. Casting such spell is then considered an evil act and might contribute to the alignment shift towards the evil end of the spectrum. If a spell has no such descriptor then it being a necromancy spell is just a taxonomical division for the sake of the game mechanics like school bonuses. Especially important for most of debiliating spells like curses and inflicts who are also on general divine spell lists because they're used for simulating effects like divine curses called upon someone. Which is an action available also for followers of the non-evil deities. A Deva cleric can smash a sinner with an inflict or a curse as a means of a divine punishment for their wrongdoings without it being counted as an evil act. |
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| Artifice | Jun 28 2017, 07:50 AM Post #42 |
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From the Player's Handbook: "A cleric casts divine spells (the same type of spells available to the druid, paladin, and ranger), which are drawn from the cleric spell list (page 183). However, his alignment may restrict him from casting certain spells opposed to his moral or ethical beliefs; see Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells, below." " A cleric can’t cast spells of an alignment opposed to his own or his deity’s (if he has one). For example, a good cleric (or a neutral cleric of a good deity) cannot cast evil spells. Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaos, evil, good, and law descriptors in their spell descriptions (see Chapter 11: Spells). " ... To chapter 11 to look up random examples of what I listed... Contagion Necromancy [Evil] Create Undead Necromancy [Evil] Create Greater Undead Necromancy [Evil] Curse Water Necromancy [Evil] Death Knell Necromancy [Death, Evil] Deathwatch Necromancy [Evil] Eyebite Necromancy [Evil] Hmm... Well I'm not going to go through hundreds of pages. Suffice to say, the book recommends you only cast spells your deity would actually support you invoking. Of course, DMs are free to interpret the rules however they want. But this is what the book says. |
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| Embersworn | Jun 28 2017, 07:52 AM Post #43 |
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Blargh!
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And now show me the "evil" descriptor on the Bestow Curse, Poison or Blindness/Deafness or Inflict Wounds. My point still stands - not all spells classified as the Necromancy school are considered "evil" acts. The ones who explicitly are considered such are also clearly labeled. And only those. |
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| Artifice | Jun 28 2017, 07:54 AM Post #44 |
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... I'm not arguing with you. I'm posting what the book says. Jeez, calm thy tits. |
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| Tomekk | Jun 28 2017, 07:56 AM Post #45 |
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Dark Soul
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Using negative energy that causes living tissue to spontaneously decay and rot is fairly malevolent compared to smiting them with divine energy that punishes them for their sins... least that's what I told our PnP cleric when he tried to pull that reasoning. ![]() There's a reason why Inflict spells are on the Anti-Paladin/Blackguard spell list, but not on the Paladin list. |
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