Both Disciplines’ Rituals have activation costs and die rolls that are specific to each individual Ritual.Īll of that said, due to the wildly fluctuations costs and activations of Necromancy Path powers, the argument can be made that Necromancy requires its practitioners to be far more well-rounded in their Knowledges, Skills, and Talents than a practitioner of Thaumaturgy since there’s far more variation to take into account, and far more Abilities to advance in order to be able to practice a wider array of Necromantic abilities. However the two Disciplines are very similar with how their Rituals are run, if not in the effects that they produce. Each Path and each individual power requires their own definitive expenditures and rolls, and they can vary widely from Path to Path, and even among the differing powers in each Path. With Necromancy there is no such standardization of mechanics. The only time this changes is if a specific Path power requires different or additional rolls or expenditures In Thaumaturgy, one Blood Point must be spent along with an associated roll in order to activate a Path power. While Necromancy and Thaumaturgy are very similar in aesthetic with their Path and Ritual format, they vary quite a bit in the mechanics and rules.

So, with that claim made, let’s dig into Necromancy, and look at creative and narrative ways to look at Necromancy from a Storytelling perspective, and maybe find some uses for the various Paths and Rituals that Players and ST’s might not have considered! Systems and Rules In many ways, while Thaumaturgy is the most well known of the blood sorcery Disciplines, Necromancy is far more widespread among the denizens of the Eternal Night. The Samedi, the remnants of the Cappadocians (which many of the necromantic Bloodlines descend from), and the Harbingers of Skulls also make use of Nocromancy as their most notable Clan discipline. That ignoble title belongs to the vampires of the Nagaraja Bloodline.

While they did not create and codify the Discipline as a form of static blood sorcery, they have arguably been the most prominent force driving its development and expansion, as well as boasting the largest number of Cainites practicing it in the modern nights.īut they were not the first Necromancers among the damned. Moreso than with Thaumaturgy, a number of different Clans and Bloodlines utilize the Discipline of Necromancy.įirst, foremost, and most obviously, the Kindred of Clan Giovanni are the most well known practitioners of Necromancy. As I tried to detail the depth of content and possibilities contained in that Discipline and all of its myriad variations, I am going to try to do again in this article.īut this time we’re exploring the Discipline of Necromancy, its practitioners, and the wealth of game play possibilities that it contains.

In my last article, I did a deep dive on Thaumaturgy from a Storytellers perspective.

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