Way of the Necromancer

You have taught yourself a monastic tradition that allows you to harness the power of life and death itself. You value restoration, and seek the power to find ways to prevent death and restore life. When you focus your ki, you can align yourself with the forces of creation and bend the universe to your will.

You have an innate understanding of the flow of life through a body and can thus manipulate ki to restore a body to health and life

Way of the Necromancer Features

Disciple of Life

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn magical disciplines that harness the power of life and death. A discipline requires you to spend ki points each time you use it.

You know the Spare the Dying spell and one other spell of your choice, which are detailed in the “Available Spells” section below. You learn one additional spell of your choice at 6th, 11th, and 17th level.

Whenever you learn a new spell, you can also replace one spell that you already know with a different one.

Life Attunement

Beginning at 6th level, you gain resistance to Necrotic damage. This is not considered a magical ability, and is considered an innate understanding of and attunement to life.

Manipulation of the Self

Beginning at 11th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests.

In addition, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.

Casting Necromantic Spells

Some elemental disciplines allow you to cast spells. See the Spellcasting section for the general rules of spellcasting. To cast one of these spells, you use its casting time and other rules, but you don’t need to provide material components for it, unless it is a spell for raising the dead (as specified below).

Once you reach 5th level in this class, you can spend additional ki points to increase the level of aspell that you cast, provided that the spell has an enhanced effect at a higher level. The spell’s level increases by 1 for each additional ki point you spend. 

Each spell casts a ki point equal to its level, plus one (so a cantrip will cost 1 ki point, a 1st level spell will cost 2, and so forth).

The maximum number of ki points you can spend to cast a spell in this way (including its base ki point cost and any additional ki points you spend to increase its level) is determined by your monk level, as shown in the Spells and Ki Points table. 

Spells and Ki Points

Available Spells:

The spells are presented in order of their level. Those that require material components are highlighted.

Spare the Dying (c)
You can spend 1 ki point to cast Spare the Dying

Toll the Dead (c)
You can spend 1 ki point to cast Toll the Dead

Chill Touch (c)
You can spend 1 ki point to cast Chill Touch

False Life (1st)
You can spend 2 ki points to cast False Life

Inflict Wounds (1st)
You can spend 2 ki points to cast Inflict Wounds

Cure Wounds (1st)
You can spend 2 ki points to cast Cure Wounds

Gentle Repose (2nd)
You can spend 3 ki points to cast Gentle Repose (6th level required)

Ray of Enfeeblement (2nd)
You can spend 3 ki points to cast Ray of Enfeeblement (6th level required)

Lesser Restoration (2nd)
You can spend 3 ki points to cast Lesser Restoration (6th level required)

Animate Dead (3rd)
You can spend 4 ki points to cast Animate Dead (11th level required)

Life Transference (3rd)
You can spend 4 ki points to cast Life Transference (11th level required)

Revivify** (3rd)
You can spend 4 ki points to cast Revivify (11th level required). This spell requires and consumes a diamond or collection of diamonds worth at least 300gp

Vampiric Touch (3rd)
You can spend 4 ki points to cast Vampiric Touch (11th level required)

Blight (4th)
You can spend 5 ki points to case Blight (17th level required)

Danse Macabre (5th)
You can spend 6 ki points to cast Danse Macabre (17th level required)

Negative Energy Flood (5th)
You can spend 6 ki points to cast Negative Energy Flood (17th level required)

Raise Dead** (5th)
You can spend 6 ki points to case Raise Dead (17th level required). This spell has a reduced casting time of 30 minutes, due to your understanding of the flow of life force, and consumes a diamond or collection of diamonds worth at least 500gp

Necromantic Spellcasting

You can choose from the identified spells, and can use ki points to cast these

Life Attunement

At level 6, you have become very in tune with ki, and the manipulation of life force. As such, you take half of any necrotic damage dealt to you

Necromantic Spellcasting

You can select another spell from the provided list to cast, and in addition changing one known spell

Necromantic Spellcasting

You can select another spell from the provided list to cast, and in addition changing one known spell

Necromantic Spellcasting

You can select another spell from the provided list to cast, and in addition changing one known spell

Manipulation of the Self

Beginning at 11th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests.

In addition, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.