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Over the years of World Building I've fallen in love with using Necromancy to replace technology for a darker or Gothic meets steampunk/High tech setting.
However I've run into a bit of a problem as I have reached my creative limit for this fun little Psychotic corner of Magitech and would appreciate some fresh ideas.
Some stuff I have so far:
Zombie Plantation Workers, it's not slavery, they're mindless.
Some examples I had on my last thread are here:
Necrotech!
Land vehicles propelled by zombies enclosed in the wheels (hamster style).
Hollowed out armored zombie giants act as power armor.
Flying skeletal roc airships bombarding cities with ghouls.
Weapons The Soul Pistol and Soul Rifle function as their brethren from the Technology Guide, however they do Negative Energy damage and upon a critical hit the creature struck must make a DC 17 fortitude save or gain a negative level. One HD of the creature captured by the Soul Shard is equal to one Charge
Undead mastery Soul Shards can be aligned to improve the casting power of spells such as Animate Dead. If aligned in this manner, for every 2 HD the soul in the Soul Shard had, the caster level for animating and controlling Undead with Animate Dead increases by 1.
Deathly defenses Auramakers are a defense technology that uses souls to create an unholy aura that defends those around it. The Auramaker has slots for up to 5 Soul Shards, this creates a pool of HD that the Auramaker uses to create the Aura. For every 10HD in the soul pool, the wearer of the Auramaker gains a +1 Profane bonus to AC. This aura lasts 1 hour for every HD in the pool.
Soul Engines Soul Shards can be used to make explosions to propel a vehicle with a specially made engine. The power and consumption of the engine depends on the kind and quality of the specific engine.
One thing I've had in a setting was enchanting a collection of chairs with Magic Jar and Phantasmal Killer, this creates a hallucination that exists only for the people sitting in the chairs and then their souls are moved into the illusion producing a virtual reality.
Another is simple stuff like fridges of gentle repose so the vegetables and meat never goes off, and necrografts like giving blind people those glowy red orbs undedad have to see.
If you are just mining for ideas (as it uses new mechanics not part of PFRPG):
Shadowrun and Cyberpunk both had a book that had sections (if not completely about) necromantic material too if I remember correctly.
If you are just mining for ideas (as it uses new mechanics not part of PFRPG):
Shadowrun and Cyberpunk both had a book that had sections (if not completely about) necromantic material too if I remember correctly.
Yep I pretty much do necropunk to.
The Iron Kingdoms has an entire nation that runs on this stuff: The Nightmare Kingdom of Cryx.
Steam power dominates most of the world. Cryx uses undead enhanced by steam power... but uses fossilised agony instead of coal for fuel.
I have heavily modified Monte Cook's Chaositech stuff into a necro tech. I got a lot of great stuff from his Chaositech book.
I have heavily modified Monte Cook's Chaositech stuff into a necro tech. I got a lot of great stuff from his Chaositech book.
Agreed, Chaositech was very good stuff. I believe his base campaign was also more "low magic" after his changes so it would probably not ring too many alarms for those people who worry about balance issues.
Iron Kingdoms was probably one of my favorite precanned campaign settings and I'm really sad they didn't really pursue the d20 books more. Witchfire triology was an amazing set of adventures. I actually bought it twice (once for me and another general set for our group to use).
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You might consider taking some inspiration from Necrocraft..
I love using those things. Easy way to make power armour.
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Just the stuff in the zombie livestock thread.
Ghosts can possess objects a la the animate object spell, so you could make a kind of spirit slave that does that for specific constructs and golems.
Life-drain cannons which enslave intelligent undead and "channel" their powers, allowing a living necromancer to benefit from the effects of a vampire's negative energy attack.
Necrobombs which turn very small objects (polymorph magic) into very large uncontrolled undead.
Spirits infused with elements, like lightning, that power things or act as weapons.
A necromantic ritual that renders a person unable to die and then uses their living body to contain and use malevolent magics/entities that would kill normal folk.
Ooh! Fun! Thanks!
Here's a taste from my topic "New ritual system. Suggestions welcome".
Ritual 21: Power Circle. At least 5 freshly severed heads are arranged on a carved in stone magic circle to turn negative energy into negative electric current.
Success: The heads rise and face inward. A powerful electric current hits copper rods thrust into the circle. A city, spaceship, or other power grid can be run off this. Increased load can cause brown outs. The remedy is adding a head or another circle. DC 30.
Failure: The heads turn into undead with 20 foot 6th level shocking grasp power. They attack everyone.
Modifiers: Knowledge nature and arcana. A priest of a death god adds +10.
Cost: 1000gp
New modifier: A black star sapphire, worth 1000gp, powdered and drawn between the heads in a star pattern, adds +5.
For added flavor you can have them moan or scream constantly.
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Here's a taste from my topic "New ritual system. Suggestions welcome".
Ritual 21: Power Circle. At least 5 freshly severed heads are arranged on a carved in stone magic circle to turn negative energy into negative electric current.
Success: The heads rise and face inward. A powerful electric current hits copper rods thrust into the circle. A city, spaceship, or other power grid can be run off this. Increased load can cause brown outs. The remedy is adding a head or another circle. DC 30.
Failure: The heads turn into undead with 20 foot 6th level shocking grasp power. They attack everyone.
Modifiers: Knowledge nature and arcana. A priest of a death god adds +10.
Cost: 1000gp
New modifier: A black star sapphire, worth 1000gp, powdered and drawn between the heads in a star pattern, adds +5.For added flavor you can have them moan or scream constantly.
Link?
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2osmr?New-ritual-system-Suggestions-welcome
Go to Link.
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Not sure how easy it is to find now, but if you can track down d20 cyberscape it had a whole section on necrotic implants. Obviously it would need some fiddling to fit the pathfinder system for cybernetics, but it had some cool stuff, like implanting a vampire's frontal lobe to gain it's gaseous form!
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http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2osmr?New-ritual-system-Suggestions-welcome
Go to Link.
Reverse Gemini circles that fuse two creatures together is too good to pass up.