Game: RetroMUD April 7, 2010 1:55 am BST by retromud

Reinventing Necromancer


RetroMUD is pleased to announce the re-emergence of the Necromancer guild! Based on feedback from players of many games, and research into various areas, the Necromancer guild has gone a massive redevelopment effort over the past few years. It has been rewritten, rethought, and reinvented and is guaranteed to be unlike any necromancer guild you have yet seen.

To highlight some of the main features:

- Build your own undead! You are in complete control over the animation process. By amputating parts from corpses of the slain, assembling them to your liking, and using your magic to animate them - you can command healer, blaster, ranged, and melee creations. By utilizing your collection of Negative Energy you can advance them through 4 tiers of power, each unlocking new skills that can be trained to increase their power. Simple skeletons are a thing of the past as you can combine animal, aquatic, dragon, humanoid, nonhuman, and avian parts to create unique minions!

- Master control over the lifeforces of others. While minions are a great tool to the necromancer, they could not be a complete guild without powers of their own. By collecting the departing lifeforce of victims as they are damaged, and distributing this energy to yourself or your allies, a necromancer is a versatile member of any party. With proper training, the necromancer can augment many areas vital to party-based combat. Feed the healer sps, add hps to a meleer, or help an underpowered mage keep up in the battle. If that doesn't suit your style then simply add all of the lifeforce to your own sps so that you are an unstoppable force!

- Paths of power: Will you focus mainly on your pets and become a Puppet Master - able to unleash the full potential of your minions? Or will you dive further into the plane of the dead as a Deathmaster - learning to collect and distribute even more of the life force around you?

- More! Shadowgates, phantom shards, phylacteries, brain extraction, minor animation of organs and body parts, harmful magic attacks, deathmasters, puppet masters and more are open to you as a Necromancer at RetroMUD.org!!

Please, come check out our new Necromancer - or some of our hundreds of other guilds - and let us know what you think!

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