Does necromancy only apply to corpses or does it also work on things made from dead matter and such like oil/coal or paper?
Depends on the setting.
>>97995242Meds.
Depends on what setting and system. Which are?
>>97995242Necromancy also applies to threads, topics, and art.
every thread now has 4 or 5 jannylarpers all competing for le epic fippy bippy out the gatethis is why /tg/ is dead
>>97995242Only setting agnostic fact about necromancy is that it has something to do with the dead. All the specifics beyond that depend on the setting. This is a thread where "what setting?" and "what game?" are necessary questions for the discussion to go anywhere.
>>97995242Depends on the setting. Some necromancers are glorified morticians and do nothing else.
>>97995242No.
>>97995242What game?
>>97995242Only oil because its made of dead dinosaurs.
>>97995242>my settingI don't think necromancers would be oil benders or anything. Could be interesting to have some sort of...>blood = oildieselpunk zombies thing, where they bleed oil that the necromancer has infused with 'blood majick' through some sort of technicality. I feel like any nazi zombies trope or whatever has been beaten to death and isn't really an inspired idea anymore.
>>97995242Here’s a thought, besides the obvious answer of bone (and other materials from people for that matter) what other mundane (as in, existing IRL) materials make sense as being effective in channeling the energy of necromancy, be they in focus items like wands or staves, or enchanted items like pendants, armor, etc.? For instance, besides iron, because of all the iron in blood, what metals could work well for such items? Especially if they can be used to give the necromancy spells modifiers, like a blast of necrotic energy imbued with some of the essence of fire so it not only drains your life force, but feels like it’s burning you, or one imbued with the essence of ice so it causes frostbite, for example.
>>97998270Anon, this question is literally unanswerable without a setting mentioned. Whats worse is the OP is not going to participate in this thread. This is what actually kills /tg/. Threads without any genuine interest in them, not even troll-like tongue-in-cheek silliness. Might as well be an AI generated thread.You may as well just speak with chatgpt instead of entering this thread
>>97995242Traditional games?
>>97998270What are you talking about? You need to provide enough information to get an answer to a question.
>>97999679>if OP doesn't give me his attention my life is ruined!Go out and start looking for your father, holy shit
>>98002069But Anon, you are my father.
>>97995242>or does it also work on things made from dead matter and such like oil/coal or paper?Yes and no. A lich can tie their soul to a scroll, but he can not animate one. If a necromancer could animate everything then why bother with an army of the dead? Just set yourself up as a barber and collect enough hair to strangle the whole town in their sleep. If it was that broad range a reanimated corpse's separated pieces would begin acting autonomously instead of being deanimated.
>>98002095Goddamn, I knew this moment would come. Son, I...I was young and stupid. Now I'm older.
>>97995242>necromancer who specializes in petrolmancy>dressed like an Arabian desert warrior with his tattered black robes and sickly camel>can summon ancient beasts from beneath the sand made from oil and bone>he can use the petrol to spit fire>enemy that dies in the spitfire flames rises as a ghoul (the term ghoul originating in the Arabian peninsula)>necropetrol beasts can be ignited to do flame damage at the cost of decaying faster>area of effect and area control potential>possibly leaning more into the Arabian vibe and manipulating coils of petrol to look like snakesVisually and conceptually I think there's some rich flavor there. You could also go the other route and be a big Texas oil baron necromancer with a bunch of skeleton oil riggers.
>>97998270No one is stopping you from naming a specific system in your posts.
>>98002069why would you make a thread if you have no actual interest in the topic?
This is literally DND...
>>97995242I always liked the idea that the oil and other compressed, long dead matter could be useful to necromancy. There was a setting discussed on /tg/ a long time ago where this was used, I think it was called 'Black Magic'. Zombie labour is often used in fantasy when you want it to have more of an industrial vibe and it would add to that theme.
>>97999679>Anon, this question is literally unanswerable without a setting mentioned.This is only true if you are literally fucking braindead. /tg/ used to have casual discussions about this kind of thing all the fucking time, with people voluntarily discussing different settings in the thread of their own volition. Yes the attempt to choke all discussion with le meme phrase is bad, no you do not need to name a specific setting in your post when discussing general fantasy concepts. You have absolutely no conception of what the golden age of /tg/ was like.You have literally been lobotomised by the nazimod era and its consequences.
The truly insane part is any relevance specifying the setting had existed only in the era before generals colonised /tg/ and every system and setting has its own siloed general. And yet the very people mocking this thread would be perfectly fine with a 24/7 schizo NECROMANCY GENERAL thread.
>>98002101>If it was that broad range a reanimated corpse's separated pieces would begin acting autonomously instead of being deanimated.This is how high necromancy biomes work in dwarf fortress. Severed body parts spontaneously reanimate.
>>98004187Why are you here if you don't want to talk about games?
>>98004223Correct, you don't need to specify a setting. You need to specify a game.
>>98004517Why are you?
>>98004566>n-no u
>>98004223he doesn't care anon, he just wants to shit the place up
>>98004223/tg/ also used to not be plagued by a mental defective who's pathologically obsessed with keeping his pet threads on the board for months at a time. Times change.
>>98004607then just make new threads to make his slide off, retardstart posting what you want to see instead of wasting your life shitposting, or better yet, fuck off
>>98004677>asking questions is "shitposting"For someone who claims to support casual discussion, you sure do seem hostile to the idea of anyone actually doing it.
