So was realizing the warlock with tasha got undying servitude granting access to animate dead, with undead patron gets the ability to not need to eat or breath, and with the aspect of the moon invocation has no need to sleep.
was wondering if this makes them a great necromancer? Sure your undead aren’t as strong as a wizard and also you don’t get things like a mummylord but you get an eldritch blast cantrip to use for your own damage and you get access to other things a wizard doesn’t.
idk does anyone have any experience with this that can tell me how a undead warlock necromancer is?
Undead Warlock is the best and probably the most flexible warlock IMO.
Undead Warlock has everything necessary to be a "necromancer". Make him a Dampir and you have even more thematics going for you.
Also Create Undead and Summon Undead are both on the Warlock spell list. Combine this with the animate dead through the invocation and I think you can be great as a necromancer.
Ok. I haven't played DnD since the 80's but I've decided to return. 1 character is a drow necromancer. How do I make him an undead drow necromancer? He is just starting, do he is lol 1
Pick Reborn Lineage as your race. You are now an undead and you can pick whatever race you want as the base of that undead but as stated by sfPanzer they aren’t talking about Undead as the character but the subclass to Warlock.
The Undead patron is focused on becoming undead themselves, not summoning undead. It's a cool subclass, but it's undead servants would be decidedly weaker than a Necromancer Wizards. That said, it would be a cool and fun character and while not optimized, it wouldn't be weak either. I'd say do it and really ham it up, especially when you assume your form of dread. Your thin, scholarly Drow could become something terrifying for one minute at a time.
The downside to Undying Servitude is that it's once per long rest. Depending on how lax your DM is content from different sources, you can get Animate Dead from the Golgari Agent background from Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. You still have to choose the spell at level 5 as one of your warlock spells, but now you can cast it using your Pact slots which come back on a short rest; so you can maintain more of them.
If I were ever to play this I would probably combine it with the Warlock playstyle of using Repelling Blast/Grasp of Hadar invocations to push and pull enemies around the battlefield and into some big AoE concentration spell I cast. The zombies then are an extension of that since they can shamble up and grapple enemies and either hold them in those effects or push/drag them into it.
However the drawback to playing a necromancer in 5e is what it has always been: logistics. Controlling so many undead is a lot of work and slows down the pace of the game.
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So was realizing the warlock with tasha got undying servitude granting access to animate dead, with undead patron gets the ability to not need to eat or breath, and with the aspect of the moon invocation has no need to sleep.
was wondering if this makes them a great necromancer? Sure your undead aren’t as strong as a wizard and also you don’t get things like a mummylord but you get an eldritch blast cantrip to use for your own damage and you get access to other things a wizard doesn’t.
idk does anyone have any experience with this that can tell me how a undead warlock necromancer is?
Undead Warlock is the best and probably the most flexible warlock IMO.
Undead Warlock has everything necessary to be a "necromancer". Make him a Dampir and you have even more thematics going for you.
Also Create Undead and Summon Undead are both on the Warlock spell list. Combine this with the animate dead through the invocation and I think you can be great as a necromancer.
Ok. I haven't played DnD since the 80's but I've decided to return. 1 character is a drow necromancer. How do I make him an undead drow necromancer? He is just starting, do he is lol 1
“How do I make him an undead drow necromancer?“
Pick Reborn Lineage as your race. You are now an undead and you can pick whatever race you want as the base of that undead but as stated by sfPanzer they aren’t talking about Undead as the character but the subclass to Warlock.
The Undead patron is focused on becoming undead themselves, not summoning undead. It's a cool subclass, but it's undead servants would be decidedly weaker than a Necromancer Wizards. That said, it would be a cool and fun character and while not optimized, it wouldn't be weak either. I'd say do it and really ham it up, especially when you assume your form of dread. Your thin, scholarly Drow could become something terrifying for one minute at a time.
Great! Tnx for the suggestions guys. I'm gonna do it and see what happens
The downside to Undying Servitude is that it's once per long rest. Depending on how lax your DM is content from different sources, you can get Animate Dead from the Golgari Agent background from Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. You still have to choose the spell at level 5 as one of your warlock spells, but now you can cast it using your Pact slots which come back on a short rest; so you can maintain more of them.
If I were ever to play this I would probably combine it with the Warlock playstyle of using Repelling Blast/Grasp of Hadar invocations to push and pull enemies around the battlefield and into some big AoE concentration spell I cast. The zombies then are an extension of that since they can shamble up and grapple enemies and either hold them in those effects or push/drag them into it.
However the drawback to playing a necromancer in 5e is what it has always been: logistics. Controlling so many undead is a lot of work and slows down the pace of the game.