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Death Diviner • Undead Commander

Subclasses Designed by Chapo the Dog

About these subclasses

Subclasses for the Necromancer. The Death Diviner harkens back to the old necromancers of myth, raising a single undead minions to glean knowledge and divine the future. The Undead Commander is the leader of an army of undead, weaker individually, but a force to be reckoned with when fighting together.

Designed for class

Necromancer
Homebrew class
Necromancer

Subclass details

Death Diviner

Death Diviner

Spell trait: Knowledge

Play a Death Diviner if you want to use your connection to the dead to expand your knowledge and predict the future.

Foundation
Tier 1

Speak with the Dead: Your Undead Servant can communicate with you. You can ask it a number of questions about its former life equal to your Spellcast trait. When you do, make a Spellcast Roll (12) to have it find the answers in its jumbled memories. On a success with Hope, it answers to the best of its knowledge. On a success with Fear, the answer is cryptic or misleading.

Thanatological Scholar: You gain advantage on all rolls to learn about and identify undead creatures. You also gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls against undead adversaries.

Specialization
Tier 2

Summon Specter: When you raise an Undead Servant, mark an additional Stress to raise a ghost instead. You can use a corpse or summon a restless spirit from the area. The Specter can fly and pass through walls and has resistance to physical damage. The Specter has one additional Experience at a +3 bonus, representing who they were in life. It also comes with a Burden - an injustice or unfinished task from its former life. You automatically know this Burden. If you help it complete this task or right this injustice, you gain a Hope. If it is destroyed or dismissed before its Burden is completed, the GM gains a Fear.

Mastery
Tier 3

Foresight: Your Undead Servant gives you a glimpse into the future then sacrifices itself to change the outcome. You can make any creature within Close range reroll an action or reaction roll after the results have been totaled. After the outcome of the reroll, your Undead Servant is destroyed. You need an active Undead Servant to use this feature.

Expert Reanimator: Choose two additional level-up options for your Undead Servant.

Undead Commander

Undead Commander

Spell trait: Knowledge

Play an Undead Commander if you want to lead an army of undead minions.

Foundation
Tier 1

Cadaver Collector: When you use the "find a corpse" downtime move, you find an amount equal to 1 + your tier.

Undead Horde: You can have an amount of active Undead Servants equal to 1 + your tier. Each Servant must come from a different corpse and you must mark a Stress for each when you raise them. You can use one Spellcast Roll to raise all corpses in Close range, up to your maximum. Spend a Hope to have all your Servants move to and attack an adversary within their Close range. Each Servant must target a different adversary. Make a single Spellcast Roll and deal your Servant's damage to all targets you succeed against.

Specialization
Tier 2

Meat Shields: You can use the bodies of your Undead Servants to protect you from attacks. You gain a +1 bonus to your Evasion for every Servant within Melee range of you. In addition, when you would mark an armor slot, spend a Hope to mark a Hit Point of an Undead Servant in Melee range of you instead.

Command Undead: Make a Spellcast Roll against an undead adversary within Close range. On a success, the adversary marks a Stress and you can issue a one-word command. On the next GM spotlight, they must spotlight this adversary first and carry out the command.

Mastery
Tier 3

Golem: Once per long rest, mark 3 Stress to amalgamate all your Servants into a single fearsome monstrosity. You must have your maximum amount of Servants active to use this feature. The Golem functions as an Undead Servant but gains a 1 bonus to its Proficiency and Hit Points, its damage dice and range increase by one step, and it gains resistance to physical and magic damage. It also gains the Experience "Brute" at a 4 bonus. After the scene, if the Golem survives, it separates back into its component Undead Servants. For each Hit Point it marked as a Golem, one Servant is destroyed.

Printable cards

Foundation / Specialization / Mastery
Death Diviner
Necromancer

Death Diviner

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Knowledge

Speak with the Dead: Your Undead Servant can communicate with you. You can ask it a number of questions about its former life equal to your Spellcast trait. When you do, make a Spellcast Roll (12) to have it find the answers in its jumbled memories. On a success with Hope, it answers to the best of its knowledge. On a success with Fear, the answer is cryptic or misleading.

Thanatological Scholar: You gain advantage on all rolls to learn about and identify undead creatures. You also gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls against undead adversaries.

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Death Diviner
Necromancer

Death Diviner

Specialization

Summon Specter: When you raise an Undead Servant, mark an additional Stress to raise a ghost instead. You can use a corpse or summon a restless spirit from the area. The Specter can fly and pass through walls and has resistance to physical damage. The Specter has one additional Experience at a +3 bonus, representing who they were in life. It also comes with a Burden - an injustice or unfinished task from its former life. You automatically know this Burden. If you help it complete this task or right this injustice, you gain a Hope. If it is destroyed or dismissed before its Burden is completed, the GM gains a Fear.

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Death Diviner
Necromancer

Death Diviner

Mastery

Foresight: Your Undead Servant gives you a glimpse into the future then sacrifices itself to change the outcome. You can make any creature within Close range reroll an action or reaction roll after the results have been totaled. After the outcome of the reroll, your Undead Servant is destroyed. You need an active Undead Servant to use this feature.

Expert Reanimator: Choose two additional level-up options for your Undead Servant.

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Undead Commander
Necromancer

Undead Commander

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Knowledge

Cadaver Collector: When you use the "find a corpse" downtime move, you find an amount equal to 1 + your tier.

Undead Horde: You can have an amount of active Undead Servants equal to 1 + your tier. Each Servant must come from a different corpse and you must mark a Stress for each when you raise them. You can use one Spellcast Roll to raise all corpses in Close range, up to your maximum. Spend a Hope to have all your Servants move to and attack an adversary within their Close range. Each Servant must target a different adversary. Make a single Spellcast Roll and deal your Servant's damage to all targets you succeed against.

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Undead Commander
Necromancer

Undead Commander

Specialization

Meat Shields: You can use the bodies of your Undead Servants to protect you from attacks. You gain a +1 bonus to your Evasion for every Servant within Melee range of you. In addition, when you would mark an armor slot, spend a Hope to mark a Hit Point of an Undead Servant in Melee range of you instead.

Command Undead: Make a Spellcast Roll against an undead adversary within Close range. On a success, the adversary marks a Stress and you can issue a one-word command. On the next GM spotlight, they must spotlight this adversary first and carry out the command.

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Undead Commander
Necromancer

Undead Commander

Mastery

Golem: Once per long rest, mark 3 Stress to amalgamate all your Servants into a single fearsome monstrosity. You must have your maximum amount of Servants active to use this feature. The Golem functions as an Undead Servant but gains a 1 bonus to its Proficiency and Hit Points, its damage dice and range increase by one step, and it gains resistance to physical and magic damage. It also gains the Experience "Brute" at a 4 bonus. After the scene, if the Golem survives, it separates back into its component Undead Servants. For each Hit Point it marked as a Golem, one Servant is destroyed.

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