A specialist wizard who calls himself a necromancer or a cleric with the Death domain has significant power over undead and the forces of negative energy, but a dread necromancer is their true master. A practicioner of vile and forbidden arts, she calls upon restless, tormented spirits of the dead, seeking their arcane secrets. She might be a consummate villain, or perhaps a tortured hero whose obsession with death leads her along questionable moral paths.
Alignment must be non-good.
Class Features
HD: d6
BAB: Low
High Saves: Will
Weapon proficiency: Simple, Martial
Armor proficiency: Light
Class Skills: Bluff, Concentration, Craft Armor, Craft Weapon, Hide, Intimidate, Lore, and Spellcraft.
Skill points: 2 + Int modifier
Class Abilities
Level 1: Charnel Touch, Turn Undead
Level 2: Lich Body (DR 2)
Level 3: Negative Energy Burst 1/day
Level 4: Mental Bastion +2, Advanced Learning
Level 5: Fear Aura
Level 6: Scabrous Touch 1/day
Level 7: Lich Body (DR 4), Summon Familiar
Level 8: Negative Energy Burst 2/day, Undead Mastery, Advanced Learning
Level 9: Negative Energy Resistance
Level 10:
Level 11: Lich Body (DR 6), Scabrous Touch 2/day
Level 12: Enervating Touch 3/day, Advanced Learning
Level 13: Negative Energy Burst 3/day
Level 14: Mental Bastion +4
Level 15: Lich Body (DR 8)
Level 16: Scabrous Touch 3/day, Enervating Touch 4/day, Advanced Learning
Level 17: Enervating Touch 8/day
Level 18: Negative Energy Burst 4/day, Enervating Touch 9/day
Level 19: Craft Wondrous Item
Level 20: Enervating Touch 10/day, Lich Transformation, Advanced Learning
Level 21: Scabrous Touch 4/day
Level 22: Enervating Touch 11/day
Level 23: Negative Energy Burst 5/day
Level 24: Mental Bastion +6, Enervating Touch 12/day, Advanced Learning, Bonus Feat
Level 25:
Level 26: Scabrous Touch 5/day, Enervating Touch 13/day
Level 27:
Level 28: Negative Energy Burst 6/day, Enervating Touch 14/day, Advanced Learning, Bonus Feat
Level 29:
Level 30: Enervating Touch 15/day
Spells per Day (Charisma based)
When a dread necromancer first obtains a spell level she can cast 3 per day. At each level after gaining a given spell level the count increases by one until she reaches 6 per day.
Level 1 spells are granted at level 1. Level 2 through 9 spells are gained at every even level starting at 4th level (level 2 spells at 4th, level 6 spells at 12th).
Dread Necromancer Spell List
1st Level: Bane, Bestow Wound, Cause Fear, Chill Touch, Doom, Inflict Light Wounds, Ray of Enfeeblement, Summon Undead I
2nd Level: Blindness/Deafness, Darkness, Death Knell, False Life, Ghoul Touch, Inflict Moderate Wounds, Summon Undead II
3rd Level: Crushing Despair, Death Ward, Inflict Serious Wounds, Ray of Exhaustion, Summon Undead III, Vampiric Touch
4th Level: Animate Dead, Bestow Curse, Dispel Magic, Enervation, Evard's Black Tentacles, Inflict Critical Wounds, Phantasmal Killer, Summon Undead IV
5th Level: Blight, Cloudkill, Fire in the Blood, Greater Dispel Magic, Slay Living, Summon Undead V, Undead to Death, Waves of Fatigue
6th Level: Acid Fog, Circle of Death, Create Undead, Eyebite, Harm, Mass Inflict Moderate Wounds, Waves of Exhaustion
7th Level: Control Undead, Destruction, Finger of Death, Greater Harm, Mass Inflict Serious Wounds, Song of Discord, Vile Death
8th Level: Create Greater Undead, Horrid Wilting, Mass Inflict Critical Wounds, Symbol of Death
9th Level: Energy Drain, Imprison Soul, Mass Harm, Plague of Undead, Wail of the Banshee
Advanced Learning
- Lvl 2 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 4 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 6 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 8 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 9 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 9 Divine/Arcane spell
- Lvl 9 Divine/Arcane spell
New Feats: Corpsecrafter, Deadly Chill, Destructive Retribution, Necromantic Might, Necromantic Presence, Profane Vigor, Ignore Turn Resistance, Undead Leadership, Sacred Vitality, Profane Lifeleech, Profane Aura, Tomb Tainted Soul, Undead Leadership
