"Good" Necromancers
Anonymous 10 hams age E
We tried to be ‘(Seed necromancers' and managed to **** it up so hard that we became
the villains. Draw were invading a city, and we were trying to stop them. Using an
ancient nexus of necromantic power, we created an army of the dead, two thousands
strong, with three large flesh golems.
Then we exhausted said Nexus and used the power ta teleport this army.
To the wrong city.
Massive undead away literally pops up out at newhere during the king' s parade,
everybody starts screaming, the tive guys in necromantic rams at the head of the army
start trying to calm people dawn by screaming at them, which just makes things worse
we completely every diplomacy and intimidate roll because nobady had these
skills), they get attached by guards and defend themselves using nonlethal chain
lightning, making the populace even mare . A local death cult took this ta be a
sign from their god and started summoning even mare undead while whispering prayers
ta the tive necromancers.
Before you knew it the city is burning, the guard has been decimated, there have been
thousands of casualties, and tive mages are standing in the centre at the mins, next to a
fountain that has been desecrated, melding each ather' s gaze.
That was a thi' g."
xi den". suppose we, ea. iid just and explain the iii ?"
will the ) C) i" C) ? ), roii leek around at the, city er beatn and ire that timy inadoo, identy
dated
xi den". think may walla buy it."
PRC, baat) y net."
Darrick."
Catid make ‘hinge a' . I guess."
xi mink we, destroyed all he taverns. guys."
We tried to be ‘(Seed necromancers' and managed to **** it up so hard that we became
the villains. Draw were invading a city, and we were trying to stop them. Using an
ancient nexus of necromantic power, we created an army of the dead, two thousands
strong, with three large flesh golems.
Then we exhausted said Nexus and used the power ta teleport this army.
To the wrong city.
Massive undead away literally pops up out at newhere during the king' s parade,
everybody starts screaming, the tive guys in necromantic rams at the head of the army
start trying to calm people dawn by screaming at them, which just makes things worse
we completely every diplomacy and intimidate roll because nobady had these
skills), they get attached by guards and defend themselves using nonlethal chain
lightning, making the populace even mare . A local death cult took this ta be a
sign from their god and started summoning even mare undead while whispering prayers
ta the tive necromancers.
Before you knew it the city is burning, the guard has been decimated, there have been
thousands of casualties, and tive mages are standing in the centre at the mins, next to a
fountain that has been desecrated, melding each ather' s gaze.
That was a thi' g."
xi den". suppose we, ea. iid just and explain the iii ?"
will the ) C) i" C) ? ), roii leek around at the, city er beatn and ire that timy inadoo, identy
dated
xi den". think may walla buy it."
PRC, baat) y net."
Darrick."
Catid make ‘hinge a' . I guess."
xi mink we, destroyed all he taverns. guys."
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![So let's start off with my favourite example. In a game of 5E, I'm playing a Warforged known as "the Self-Commanded Aggression Redirector Mk1," or SCAR for short. He was created to serve as the research assistant and bodyguard of a very powerful archmage. She left one day to go explore the planes and never came back, so he decided to leave and go find more knowledge.
The thing to know about SCAR is that he has three primary directives, and they are prioritized differently depending on what he's doing. These directives are: Acquire and preserve knowledge, protect [his] charge, and self-preservation. If he has a charge, protecting it becomes top priority and self-preservation becomes the least important. If he does not have a charge, acquiring knowledge becomes his most important directive, followed by self-preservation. If he has an artefact and needs to take it somewhere, then self-preservation is the most important. SCAR's way of prioritizing and interacting with the world has gotten him into trouble with his party a total of three times.
-There was a paladin that tried to kill his charge. After the paladin was downed, our party's paladin and his charge attempted to revive him. SCAR attempted to smash his ribcage into a paste with his warhammer because he deemed the paladin a danger to his charge. His charge threw herself onto the paladin's body to get him to back off, and the party's paladin didn't like him much after that.
-We killed a lich and found a book on his corpse. As it was knowledge, SCAR immediately attempted to open and preserve the book. His charge and the paladin repeatedly attempted to damage or burn the book, so SCAR bodily threw himself on top of it. He was on the verge of breaking the paladin's legs because they were perfectly willing to kill SCAR over the book. They both deemed it evil, while he simply categorized it as knowledge. His charge tried to order him to hand it over, and it caused a bit of a break in his system. SCAR decided that the monk was no longer worthy of being his charge. Angry that she'd attempted to force him to do as she wanted, and intentionally trying to destroy knowledge, he left the party. I came in after that with a dragon paladin. More on her in a bit.
-SCAR rejoined the party later. He and the monk forgave each other and made up as friends, she he tended to stick close to her to make sure she was okay. Everyone got swept up into a demiplane of ****** stuff. His old charge was there. She repeatedly tried to keep him from looking in a book that produced "visions" on its pages that spoke about the person reading it. He was willing to let it slide, though. However, he found something in that demiplane. It promised him knowledge that no one else knew in exchange for a trip to the material plane. By this point, SCAR had sold his not-a-soul to an agent of Death not the god of death, but the concept of death for esoteric knowledge. The Scythe it didn't have a name and he never named it called the thing heresy and ordered SCAR to leave it there. The object told SCAR that it could void his deal with the Scythe. SCAR couldn't acquire the knowledge from anyone but the artefact he found, so he took the deal. His old charge picked up the Scythe and figured out that he was carrying something that the Scythe considered evil. She proceeded to crit both a stealth check and a sleight of hand check to steal the thing right out of his bag. Just before they left the plane, the monk told him that she stole it from him and that he had to leave it here. SCAR felt outright betrayed and couldn't convince her that she was wrong. In the end, he almost accidentally destroyed the demiplane and everyone in it. He chose to remain behind with the object in the demiplane while everyone else left. The thing taught him Plane Shift and they left later. So now he believes that she is outright evil and that people can't be trusted.](http://2static4.fjcdn.com/comments/So+let+s+start+off+with+my+favourite+example+in+a+_a04aecb901115b5cafcdbf1e3c662762.jpg)
