Yesssss, more necromantic cooking! Really flavorful stuff! Great imagery too. I linked people over here this week so that they could enjoy it too. Keep up the good work! Great to hear it!
I hear you mentioned the post in your podcast, thanks for the spotlight. Much appreciated! Saturday, 27 April Slightly subtler Necromancy. A fireball can cook an enemy platoon, polymorph can turn a bishop into a frog. But only a necromancer can rip out your soul and reanimate your husk to hunt down your friends. Use necromancy in front of a crowd and you will be feared, then hunted as an abomination.
There has to be more to this school than slinging death spells like a culty loon. Why do subtler people get into death magic and what spells do they learn? The hand? I don't need the hand. This talisman though Binds the spirit of a dead owner to an heirloom tool - an axe, scythe, pen , etc. For the duration, you have proficiency in using the tool or weapon, or advantage if already proficient.
Relaxing your concentration on this spell voluntarily lulls the animating spirit to sleep, recasting wakes it again. Breaking concentration because of damage or a distraction risks the spirit running wild; Wisdom save versus the spell DC, or act without proficiency or with disadvantage if you didn't have proficiency to begin with.
In this case, can only put down the item on a successful save; it stays wild and uncontrolled until the maximum duration lapses. At higher level: level 2 - duration 1 minute per caster level, level 3 - the item will work for another than yourself, level 4 - duration 10 minutes per caster level, level 5 - duration 1 hour per level and no more concentration required or chance of the spirit breaking its binding. For when you don't dare to bind a spirit to its own corpse or allow yourself to be ridden by it.
