No more than a healing spell. After all it extents your normal chances of living, it doesn't bring the dead back to life, or create something out of the dead.
It is no worse than casting aid on yourself.
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Yeah, the school of necromancy in PF/D&D is more accurately described as the manipulation of positive and negative energy. There's a number of benign healing magics that fall under that category.
Basic rule of thumb for Pharasmans could be: If it doesn't make undead and doesn't harm the soul, it's good to go. :)
The entry for Pharasma in Gods & Magic specifically grants her clerics the use of false life by adding that spell to their clerical spell list (2nd level)...I'd say that's a pretty ringing endorsement!
While you're there, check out the incredibly useful defending bone spell, which my cleric cast every darn morning, first thing.
Out of curiosity, why do you think Pharasma is opposed to necromancy? There are a good number of clerical spells that are indeed necromantic, such as cause fear, speak with dead, harm, undeath to death, etc. She'd end up with clerics who were unable to perform the tasks she set for them without necromancy, as often the best spells to deal with the undead are necromantic in nature.
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Pharasma is, in fact, a big supporter of necromancy spells.
It's the undead that she don't like. Those, and things like soul trap or trap the soul.
So as long as your spell isn't creating undead, you're golden. False life is a perfect example of the type of necromancy spell Pharasma loves her worshipers to cast.
In a sort of related question, how does Pharasma feel about her worshipers using raise dead? How about repeatedly?
The entry for Pharasma in Gods & Magic specifically grants her clerics the use of false life by adding that spell to their clerical spell list (2nd level)...I believe you meant to say the wizard/sorcerer 2nd level spell list.
Why would you add it to the wizard and sorcerer list when it is already there and you are playing a cleric?
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Why would you add it to the wizard and sorcerer list when it is already there and you are playing a cleric?The entry for Pharasma in Gods & Magic specifically grants her clerics the use of false life by adding that spell to their clerical spell list (2nd level)...I believe you meant to say the wizard/sorcerer 2nd level spell list.
Mostly because I wasn't thinking clearly. I also was thinking that as a wizard you add Speak with Dead, Death Knell and Augury to your list and just transposed that with the cleric getting False Life.
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In a sort of related question, how does Pharasma feel about her worshipers using raise dead? How about repeatedly?
I would say that she does not care one way or the other. After all, once you are back to being a living creature, it is only a matter of time before you die again and get back in the waiting line.
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In a sort of related question, how does Pharasma feel about her worshipers using raise dead? How about repeatedly?
She doesn't care at all, since the metagame assumption is that once someone chooses to not be raised from the dead, or once enough time has passed that no one can use any similar spell to restore the long-dead person to life that they've been judged and sent on by Pharasma.