Necromancer's & Iconic Death Spells

[Turelus]

Couple of other posts about this but they're more mixed into other discussions so wanted something more focused.

It seems during the shuffling around of spells that Finger of Death and Wail of Banshee got bumped out of the arcane lists. This means Necromancers now lose access to two of the most iconic necromancy spells.

I'm not against other classes getting access to these spells but I feel there should be a way for the Necromancer specialist at least to gain access to them.
This way not all wizards would have them (if that's Paizo's intent), but those truly focused on death would.

[OdanBaere]

That is strange! An alternative may be to allow a spell caster to choose two essences (material, mental, spiritual, vital) and give them the option to pick spells out of those lists.

I made a list of those here and vital is probably a good choice for necromancy spells.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cknqI1_gIogsO2A9jOCG-C5Vk3-KkPcI/view

It recreates the arcane list by choosing the material and mental, but may give your players or you a better option in the meantime. And of course the universal list is for any spell caster.

I think that doing something like this would give casters the ability to refine what spells they want on a narrative level.

[Fuzzypaws]

The best solution is probably that one of the benefits of School Specialization should be access to all spells of that school regardless of class list. I don't care if a universalist wizard or diviner can never cast Finger of Death, but a necromancer should definitely get it.

[edduardco]

Fuzzypaws wrote:

The best solution is probably that one of the benefits of School Specialization should be access to all spells of that school regardless of class list. I don't care if a universalist wizard or diviner can never cast Finger of Death, but a necromancer should definitely get it.

Like how Psionic Disiplines worked.