As horrible as it is, I'm a bigger fan of the undead lord paladin :3
Just be a paladin/oracle 1 (Juju) and take the unsanctioned knowledge feat
If it wasnt an evil campaign that may work but i would constantly be in conflict with everyone else
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I think i saw somewhere that tieflings can cast animate dead as a racial
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My advice is to skip over the use of undead. I have foy.d the use of animate dead and such spells to have made my experience GMing miserable. I have nothing against undead, it us nit a flavor problem. I have a problem with stuff like blood money making it cost nothing and how a low level spell can create 4 times your (caster?) Level of undead HD, or an entire party all by itself. Not exactly a whole.party as they all should only have the casters worth.of equipment but that it enough on action economy alone. Then this BS about bloody skeletons being destroyed and coming back after only an hour is just so full of it. Comparatively, casters only get summon spells for a round per level. Even an Eidolon requires another day to resummin unless you have the spell that makes it a standard action.
Maybe with anti pal progression, you might be less an.offender but I still advise against it.
d20pfsrd may not be 'official' but it's actually correct more often than the Official PRD is.
As an example, the PRD does not update with FAQs unless they directly make it into published errata. Since re-prints are so few and far between, you will see the PRD out-of-date more often than naught.
[Edit] But, you know, just to amuse you.
Crypt Lord (Ex): At 15th level, a knight of the sepulcher's chance of ignoring critical hits and sneak attacks increases to 75%, as though he were wearing armor of heavy fortification. He gains immunity to death effects, paralysis, sleep effects, and stunning. He no longer sleeps. The knight of the sepulcher also gains immunity to effects that cause fatigue, and effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead cause him to become fatigued. This ability replaces cruelty.
Crypt Lord (Ex):At 15th level, a knight of the sepulcher’s chance of ignoring critical hits and sneak attacks increases to 75%, as though he were wearing armor of heavy fortification. He gains immunity to death effects, paralysis, sleep effects, and stunning. He no longer sleeps. The knight of the sepulcher also gains immunity to effects that cause fatigue, and effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead cause him to become fatigued.
This ability replaces cruelty.
Funny how they have the exact same wording.
Crypt Lord (Ex)
At 15th level, a knight of the sepulcher’s chance of ignoring critical hits and sneak attacks increases to 75%, as though he were wearing armor of heavy fortification. He gains immunity to death effects, paralysis, sleep effects, and stunning. He no longer sleeps. The knight of the sepulcher also gains immunity to effects that cause fatigue, and effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead cause him to become fatigued.
This ability replaces cruelty.
Its gone forever unfortunately. I was playing a knight and its horrible and boring. The feat Necromantic Affinity makes you heal from negative energy, or just starting as Dhamphir. Knight is a trap, its not even well thought out. You get crit resistance when they removed crit immunity from undead, your earlier bonus' to poison and death and such are removed when you become immune later, etc etc. Just avoid it, it's frustrating.
d20pfsrd may not be 'official' but it's actually correct more often than the Official PRD is.
As an example, the PRD does not update with FAQs unless they directly make it into published errata. Since re-prints are so few and far between, you will see the PRD out-of-date more often than naught.
[Edit] But, you know, just to amuse you.
Crypt Lord (Ex): At 15th level, a knight of the sepulcher's chance of ignoring critical hits and sneak attacks increases to 75%, as though he were wearing armor of heavy fortification. He gains immunity to death effects, paralysis, sleep effects, and stunning. He no longer sleeps. The knight of the sepulcher also gains immunity to effects that cause fatigue, and effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead cause him to become fatigued. This ability replaces cruelty.Funny how they have the exact same wording.Crypt Lord (Ex):At 15th level, a knight of the sepulcher’s chance of ignoring critical hits and sneak attacks increases to 75%, as though he were wearing armor of heavy fortification. He gains immunity to death effects, paralysis, sleep effects, and stunning. He no longer sleeps. The knight of the sepulcher also gains immunity to effects that cause fatigue, and effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead cause him to become fatigued.
This ability replaces cruelty.
Whats not paizo legal they are wrong FAR more often - it includes all the races where you can choose your stat mod, feats and traits from campaign specific material, REALLY broken 3rd party prestige classes etc etc. None of that is official so not official far more often.
The d20 is slower, uses more download (if it matters at end o mth), is a marketing tool thats stealing from others intellectual property. I don't like being used personally and think intellectual property should be protected - suppose it might depend on if you have any or not for some and how...
Not sure where you think they got Humans wrong, or Half-elves or Half-orcs, but 3rd party material is clearly listed as being 3rd party.
d20pfsrd is not stealing any ones intellectual property, I don't know why you think that. Is it because they have 3rd party material on the site? Material that was, for the most part as far as I am aware, added to the site by the publishers themselves?
Or is it that they include material from the Campaign Setting books published by Paizo? If the d20 website were stealing intellectual property, you'd bet your ass that Paizo would have shut the site down. Instead, they all know it's there and nothing is done about it.
In fact, just to maintain the legality of the site, after d20 started up a store, they systematically removed all 'Golarion' names and references. For example, the Dawnflower Dervish bard is called Dervish of Dawn. d20pfserd has a sister site that maintains the original campaign setting material, but is not affiliated with the d20 store.
As it stands, every time I've come across an incorrect item in the PRD, the d20 website has it corrected. I've never come across anything incorrect on the d20 website other than simple spelling mistakes (like typing teh instead of the). More often than not, I see things like 'Editors Note' on the side that references a mistake in a monsters statblock, then stating the correct stating and advising GMs to use the revised stats. As an example, see the hydrodaemon a large creature that has a BAB of 10, strength of 18 and a CMB of 15, but only +9 on a grapple (despite gaining a +4 from grab); the d20pfsrd makes a note of this error, and advices using +19 for it's grapple bonus.
What abut the Holy PRD? Let's check... hyrdrodaemon... Oh! Would you look at that? The PRD lists the mistake as well.
Fact of the matter is, the d20pfsrd website is a better resource, and more reliable resource, to use than Paizo's PRD.
This is way easier than people are making it.
This if for a BBEG right?
Make a Darkskull out of the skull of a halfling child or something. Mount it on the blackguard's sword.
Make the sword Intelligent. Give it the following powers-
Greyflame
Blood Money x3 per day (cut your hand on the sword blade or something)
Animate Dead x3 per day
Teleport x3 per day
Create Undead x1 per week
Command Undead at will.
Now you're ready to go. For extra goodness take Quickened Channel and make your blackguard a Lich. When he is defeated, the sword, being intelligent, teleports to the Phylactory site and waits for it's master to reform.
It can do this whenever, so it might even stick around for a while and spy on the party.
So this is for an actual character? What level?
Max out UMD, get items that cast Animate Dead and Command Undead (the spell), take Command Undead as a feat. Take Leadership and make all your followers Undead. That's pretty much good enough.
All you really need to be an undead lord is a reliable way to cast Animate Dead and Command Undead. Anyone can do it with UMD and a few scrolls.
Can you be a Graveknight? Problem solved
Had to find this post, but if your character levels are subject to change, I would recommend something like this for an undead lord. Keep in mind, the best way to be an undead lord, is to actually be an undead that has a create spawn ability, like a shadow. Every person a shadow kills via strength drain, rises as a shadow under the control of the one who killed it, with no limit. So if you were a shadow, and you killed 10,000 kobolds in their den, you now command 10,000 shadows.
For you, I would suggest trying to become an Vampire or Graveknight, both make great undead lords. The Graveknight is the martial version of a lich, while the Vampire is the better 'master of the dead' kind of character.
See, you track down and find Clerics to turn into Vampires and then force those clerics to control other undead for you, while you control your own. For your coffin, you do something tricky, like putting your coffin in a Portable Hole, and then having Shrink Item cast upon the Portable Hole so it shrinks down to 1/16 of it's normal size, makes it damn near impossible to find.
As a Graveknight, you have the ability to force limited number of undead to serve you, but you're also nigh-unkillable. See, the Graveknight template doesn't actually state you have to wear the armor, so you can hind it and keep regenerating if someone kills you. The template already makes you immune to cold and electricity, and the template states that if no energy was particularly present in your death, it defaults to fire. So turning into a Graveknight essentially makes you immune to 3 of the 5 energy types (acid, cold, fire, shock, sonic).
Undead Master is a trap feat. It doesn't actually increase the number of undead you can control. It just lets you raise more with a single casting of Animate Dead.
The only time that's good is if you are trying to raise undead mid-combat. If your necromancer raises their undead like most do, out of combat, in a Desecrated area, the feat is pretty worthless.
Undead Master is a trap feat. It doesn't actually increase the number of undead you can control. It just lets you raise more with a single casting of Animate Dead.
The only time that's good is if you are trying to raise undead mid-combat. If your necromancer raises their undead like most do, out of combat, in a Desecrated area, the feat is pretty worthless.
When you cast animate dead or use the Command Undead feat, you are considered to be four levels higher when determining the number of Hit Dice you animate. When you cast command undead, your duration is doubled.
I'm not so sure you know how controlling the dead works.
The undead you create remain under your control indefinitely. No matter how many times you use this spell, however, you can control only 4 HD worth of undead creatures per caster level. If you exceed this number, all the newly created creatures fall under your control, and any excess undead from previous castings become uncontrolled. You choose which creatures are released. Undead you control through the Command Undead feat do not count toward this limit.
You have, effectively, two different limits when it comes to controlling the dead, the limit from Command Undead, and the limit from Animate Dead.
Say you're a 12th level caster and you wish to animate some dead, your limit is 4 * 12 = 48 HD worth of undead. However, if you have the Undead Master feat, you are treated as 4 levels higher, so you can actually control 4 * 16 = 64 HD of undead via Animate Dead.
Now, you also have the Command Undead feat you also can control up to your cleric level in undead. In the case of the 12th level caster above, this is 12 HD worth of undead. However, if he also has the Undead Master feat, he's treated as 4 levels higher, so he can actually control 16 HD worth of undead. All told, he can control up to 80 HD of undead at 12th level with the Command Undead and Undead Master feats.
Not so much a trap feat at all.
Master summoner + undead templates = win
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Funny coincidence, I actually covered this build in my first Iconic Design article today. Check it out; you might like what you see.
Here is something for you:
Have you considered the Bone Lord feat? It allows animation and control of skeletal undead at 1/2 the cost of the normal. So basically, you can make bloody skeletons at the same costs as normal skeletons. Have to have spell focus necromancy as a pre-req. PM me if you need to know the source as it is a Pathfinder approved source.
Funny coincidence, I actually covered this build in my first Iconic Design article today. Check it out; you might like what you see.I just read it all. Nice work! What about continuing the HV with lvls of Agent of the Grave for controlling even more minions?
I went oracle instead so Arthas could cast greater create undead (a 6th level spell).
Undead Master is a trap feat. It doesn't actually increase the number of undead you can control. It just lets you raise more with a single casting of Animate Dead.
The only time that's good is if you are trying to raise undead mid-combat. If your necromancer raises their undead like most do, out of combat, in a Desecrated area, the feat is pretty worthless.
When you cast animate dead or use the Command Undead feat, you are considered to be four levels higher when determining the number of Hit Dice you animate. When you cast command undead, your duration is doubled.
Animate.
Not control.
Your control values do not increase.
What this feat does is let you raise more undead at one time, and lets you go longer between castings of Command Undead.
I wish it was the way you interpret it, but it isn't.