Can A Druid Perform Necromancy

[Drummer701]

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Just because it is possible to do this, and I think it would be kinda awesome....

You should totally go Agent of the Grave.
The main requirements are Evil (check), and be able to cast Animate Dead (tricky part).

The two ways to get Animate Dead as a Druid are either the Blight Druid archetype, taking the Death Domain. This gets you Animate Dead as your 3rd Domain Spell.

The better way is being a Samsaran with the Mystic Past Life option. You can add a few non-class spells to your list (they must still be Divine though)

Because it is possible for you to go this path and get animate dead and other Necromancy spells, can you do it and still maintain all of your druid class abilities/spells????

[Drummer701]

everything strictly based on only Pathfinder SRD rules...

[Take Boat]

It works fine, unless the GM decides undead are unnatural and focusing on that is ceasing to revere nature, at which point they'd fall like a paladin who's killed all the younglings.

[Marthian]

I'm just going to say RAW you probably could do it, but seriously: You are a nature worshipping class. Death is natural, people should NOT be coming back from the grave (even if mindless). It goes entirely against the nature of the lifecycle.

EDIT: Argh, I was ninja'd

[Sekret_One]

Blight Druid spread disease, kill plants, and are basically the bane to normal nature-beings, like fey. Think that Blight Druids represent a very different aspect of nature.

Druids make weapons and armor out of the skin and bones of animals. Blight druids just... take that a step further.

[VRMH]

You could argue that some undead rise spontaneously and because of that are "natural", but you'd be stretching things...

[Take Boat]

Death and decay are part of the circle of life, but undeath isn't. I'd probably give Blight Druids Pharamsa's version of the Death domain.