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most likely by misinterpreting the rules
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Eh, maybe not...I can get 95 without trying hard (Undead Lord Feat + Animate Dead + the Undead Servitude Revelation) add in another 30 with Control Undead and another 15 with Raise The Dead, and you're starting to get pretty close. That's 140...though only for a few rounds a day. And Juju Oracles can get 114 all day long...
I dunno the exact method, but it seems possible it's legit.
The amount of undead you can control is based upon your caster level. But there's a loophole in which feats and traits allow you to treat your caster level as higher for purposes of a single spell, ergo Animate Dead. So you can be a level 15 Juju Oracle with an effective caster level of 15, but when using Animate Dead it jumps to 22 for the purposes of that spell, which includes how many undead you can create/control via Animate Dead.
Personally, with templates like Frostfallen which is specifically written to allow applying them via Animate Undead, the 6HD per level is plenty for a Juju Oracle.
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The amount of undead you can control is based upon your caster level. But there's a loophole in which feats and traits allow you to treat your caster level as higher for purposes of a single spell, ergo Animate Dead. So you can be a level 15 Juju Oracle with an effective caster level of 15, but when using Animate Dead it jumps to 22 for the purposes of that spell, which includes how many undead you can create/control via Animate Dead.
That only nets you 156 by my calculations (26*6)...but that plus another thing or two'll probably do it, yeah.
I believe This is the build in question. Courtesy of Zenith Games and Ravingdork (don't tell me I don't give credit). It has been mentioned (by James Jacobs I believe) that the creation of non-evil undead wasn't intended for Pathfinder, but there has yet to be an official errata or Faq that I can find so do with that what you will.
They almost never release errata, save for hardcovers, and they do not do FAQs of campaign setting material. James' word is as good as a FAQ due to that.
Cheese, misinterpretation of the rules...close enough.
They almost never release errata, save for hardcovers, and they do not do FAQs of campaign setting material. James' word is as good as a FAQ due to that.
Cheese, misinterpretation of the rules...close enough.
Ergo for those who treat James Jacob's words as canon, it has been officially fixed. For those who don't, it has not. I will say I have yet to find a DM (society or otherwise) who won't let me create non-evil undead. YMMV.
Ghosts are usually exempt from being evil. That's about it though. I'm usually for "All undead are evil except ghost", with the exception of one species of undead in my setting that are Taino folklore specific and are usually non-evil.
First and foremost, I want to capable in melee. It shouldn't be too difficult with the graveknight's +6 to STR. A close second on my list of priorities is being a capable minionmancer. That's why I was wondering how RD got that many HD of undead. Thirdly, I want to do some blasting, if for no other reason than it fits my character concept. Lastly, and I'm not too concerned about this as it isn't very important to me, I'd like to be a capable summoner (i.e. summon monster I-IX).
So you want to DO ALL TEH THINGS?
Lets see-
First, be an Antipaladin. Look into the Lord of Darkness archetype. It's pretty neat but it's 3rd party so your GM might not allow it (Fire Mountain Games is the company that wrote Way of the Wicked. They're really impressive and good at balance). Take 1 level of Thug rogue. Trust me.
Take the Dangerously Curious trait and max out UMD.
Take Power Attack and Cornugon Smash. Now you hit like a truck, and with every hit you can either send them running in terror, or force them to obey you.
Fiendish Boon covers the Summon side of things. Take the Huntsmaster feat and Boon Companion to significantly boost the power of your minion (that one extra level goes a long way)
Next, take Command Undead. You can Channel with two uses of Corrupting Touch (you might want to take the feat that gives you extra Touches). Now you can take control of undead you run into.
Cast Animate Dead with scrolls and UMD. You won't have a ton of minions, but you'll have enough. Pick up a few wands that fit your theme. This is how you'll get to be a blaster. A wand of Fireballs will pretty much cover it.
If you want to be able to summon more stuff, get scrolls or wands.
Look into Uttercold Assault. A must-have for blasty necromancers, as is Fell Animate.
They're 3.5 material. Uttercold Assault allows all your cold spells to deal 50% cold and 50% negative energy. Fell Animate is metamagic that makes anything killed by a blast spell rise as a zombie under your control the round after (subject to animate dead control limits)
People could ask RD about the math. He hasn't died. As far as I know.
You are not getting 196. Most likely he use the most favorable/not legal interpretation of a rule to get to 196.
Well I should say it is highly unlikely, but 180 is not bad.
Only need to work out 186 based on the link provided.
10 is from a Command Undead, which is marked.
So the character is choosing to not control those last 10 HD ?
I figure that either it's for accounting purposes, or it's a mistype.
Also, I noticed that part after...
Most likely an error. It has been known to me for some time now. I've gone over it several times and can't get it to add up either. I haven't fixed it yet though, as I want to make absolutely certain that I'm not just overlooking something obscure.
It bothers me greatly that I don't recall how I came up with that number.
Is it possible that I included the HD control from her Command Undead feat?
(I'm not dead, just spent a long weekend playing Minecraft with my friends.)
Burning? Do you you mean bloodied? They are considered double for the purposes of how many you can create at a time, not for ongoing control.
but they count as twice their normal number of Hit Dice per casting. Once controlled, they count normally against the controller's limit.
For your build... if it has to be arcane... maybe look at Gravewalker-Witch and Hexcrafter-Magus. Both have hex-progression and should stack for advancing hex-related stuff... the Magus spell list is plenty blasty and he can actually channel his magic through his weapon in melee.
However Magus doesn't get any undead controll spells... so you'll only have a bunch of Minions through Hexes:
Bonethrall, Possess Undead, Summon Spirit
Maybe you can talk your DM into trading all [Curse] Spells you'd get from Hexcrafter for your the Gravewalker bonus spells to add to your Magus Spell List? Seems like a fair trade to me... some of those [Curses] out there kick ass.
Otherwise you can add Wizard spells to your Magus spell list through that magus arcana (or feat which gives you a new magus arcana).
But I do think a straight Oracle with the appropriate choices would still be your best option (not as blasty though) for a Minion-Mastering Melee-capable Guy.
Brand (0) touch
Ill Omen (1) close
Disfiguring Touch (2) touch
Feast of Ashes (2) close
Blindness-Deafness (2) medium
Bestow Curse (3) touch
Malediction (3) touch
Cup of Dust (3) close
Eldritch Fever (3) close
Brand, Greater (4) touch
Black Spot*** (4) touch
Curse of Magic Negation (4) medium
Curse of Disgust (5) close
Mark of Justice (5) touch
Curse, Major (5) close
Eyebite (6) close
I'd rather have those instead of a Minions... for a Necromantic evil feeling they are great. But if Minions is your thing...