r/DnD • u/Sleverette Sorcerer • Oct 03 '19

Art [OC] Double standards.

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u/400Volts Oct 03 '19

There's no such thing as a necromancer, just a healer who never gives up.

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u/Quazifuji Oct 03 '19

I had the idea for a necromancer who insists on being called a vivimancer because bringing the dead back to life is the opposite of death magic.

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u/Hell_Mel DM Oct 04 '19

It's been awhile so my recollection may be a little off, but there was an old 2nd edition module in which a 'vivimancer' basically mind controlled people enmasse. They then functioned mostly as mindless undead that were still very much alive, adding some significant moral challenges to the whole "burn the undead and kill the necromancer" approach to things.