Necromancy School

This page is about the Wizard subclass. For a list of all spells of this school, see Necromancy.

Necromancy School is one of the subclasses of Wizard. These Wizards are specialized in powers of death, allowing them to protect themselves from harm and raise undead minions to serve them.

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You walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and make lots of friends there.

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Subclass features

This subclass obtains all the features from its base class, Wizard, in addition to its unique features outlined below.

Level 2

Necromancy Savant

Halves the cost to learn Necromancy spells from Scrolls. Learning these spells will only cost  25 gp per spell level.

Grim Harvest

Once per turn, if you kill a creature with a spell, you regain Hit Points equal to twice the Spell Slot level used - thrice if it's a Necromancy spell. Undead and Constructs are unaffected.

Level 6

Undead Thralls: Animate Dead

You gain the  Animate Dead spell, if you didn't have it already

Undead Thralls: Additional Undead

When you use  Animate Dead, you can raise an additional corpse.

Undead Thralls: Better Summons

Creatures created with  Animate Dead have additional hit points equal to your wizard level, and your Proficiency Bonus is added to their damage.

Level 10

Inured to Undeath

You have steeped yourself so completely in death that you are Resistant to Necrotic damage, and moreover your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.

Necromancy Wizard Spells

Name	Level		Cast time	Duration	Range/Area	Attack/Save	Damage/Effect
Bone Chill	C			1 turn	18 m (60 ft)	-	1d8⁠Necrotic
Bursting Sinew	C			-	18 m (60 ft)  3 m (10 ft) Radius	DEX Save	1d10⁠Piercing
Toll the Dead	C			-	18 m (60 ft)	WIS Save	1d12⁠Necrotic
False Life	1		+	Until long rest	Self	-	-
Ray of Sickness	1		+	2 turns	18 m (60 ft)	CON Save	2d8⁠Poison
Blindness	2		+	10 turns	18 m (60 ft)	CON Save	-
Ray of Enfeeblement	2		+	10 turns	18 m (60 ft)	-	-
Animate Dead	3		+	-	3 m (10 ft)	-	-
Bestow Curse	3		+	-	1.5 m (5 ft)	WIS Save	-
Feign Death	3		+	10 turns	1.5 m (5 ft)	-	-
Vampiric Touch	3		+	10 turns	1.5 m (5 ft)	-	3d6⁠Necrotic
Blight	4		+	-	9 m (30 ft)	CON Save	8d8⁠Necrotic
Circle of Death	6		+	-	18 m (60 ft)  9 m (30 ft) Radius	CON Save	8d6⁠Necrotic
Create Undead	6		+	Until long rest	3 m (10 ft)	-	-
Eyebite	6		+	-	18 m (60 ft)	WIS Save	-

Notable Wizards of the Necromancy School

•  Balthazar
•  Gekh Coal
•  Ilyn Toth
•  Lucretious