Can a druid also be a necromancer?

[Lady Winter Wolf]

My druid, because of a devastating event, became a "lost druid", and as she developed, it was also as if she was becoming a necromancer (spells she was able to use, and general demeanor). Can a druid become dual class as a druid/necromancer?

She had been neutral, but then changed to chaotic neutral; what would be her possible alignment if the dual classes are possible?

Thanks.

[Galadon]

Reading the 3rd ed rules Druids can be Necros. I still think necromancers are only evil alingment, but one guy said there is a good necromancer. I don't see how and he didn't give a reference.

Druids can be N/E whorshipers of Malar on Faerun can be druids.

3rd edition give a little more room. Evil Rangers, Evil Druids.

[Challenger]

I vaguely remember there being a 'good' necromancer, or at least a neutral one, in Ultima 8

Basically he was sort of along the lines of a cleric of the god of the dead. He wielded cleric style powers based on earth/death and could raise undead when necessary. But he didn't run about murdering people or trying to take over the world. For the most part he was responsible for ministering to those about to die and ensuring the souls of the dead reach the nextworld.

Challenger

[Lady Winter Wolf]

challenger said:

I vaguely remember there being a 'good' necromancer, or at least a neutral one, in Ultima 8

Basically he was sort of along the lines of a cleric of the god of the dead. He wielded cleric style powers based on earth/death and could raise undead when necessary. But he didn't run about murdering people or trying to take over the world. For the most part he was responsible for ministering to those about to die and ensuring the souls of the dead reach the nextworld.

Challenger

This would work, as my character was sort out by Anubis, and asked to be an agent for him. I was given a canobic (sp?) jar to collect souls for him, and then he would lead them to the land of the dead.

[Galadon]

Knowning what necromancers do. How do you be a good necromancer?

[Challenger]

Ok enlighten me what does a necromancer do that is fundamentally evil?

Challenger

[Galadon]

I'm speaking in the DnD version. But borrowing body parts is generally dicouraged

[Challenger]

But not fundimentaly evil depending on the cultural background

Challenger

[Shadowdragon]

Usually disturbing the dead in anyway, let alone raising them against their will (creating zombies, skeletons and such) could be considered an "evil" act, but again, that's a cultural diferentiation or classification anyway

[Lady Winter Wolf]

Well, from what was described in the Lost Druid class, eventually my character would have gone insane, so even if she tried to stay neutral in the dual class, the insanity would, more than likely, lead her to become evil. I'm just guessing at that though.

[khyron1144]

I believe that for any version of D&D that actually had a class named necromancer (basically 2e and 3e) in the Rules As Written there aren't any real alignment restrictions on necromancers, it's just that a lot of their spells tend to either have the [Evil] descriptor (ine 3e) or just do nasty things that a DM would probably judgment call as an evil act (2e).

[Galadon]

Them eyes, they're following me.

Sorry just had to memtion something about khyron's avatar.

[regrix]

Well now, Personally I'd allow it.

I really don't see any reason it would be blocked so... sure, why not. (So long as ya meet the reqs of course)

[dngnmstrbailey]

I seem to remember, in the 2nd ed "Complete Necromancers Handbook" there being reference to a kit called "Deathslayer" that was for "good" necromancers. They sought out undead in order to kill them. As they advanced, they sought out more and more powerful undead, like vampires and Liches.
If something like it doesn't already exist in 3.5, it shouldn't be hard to invent it as a prestige class in V3.5 rules.

[Shadowdragon]

When a druid turns away from the land, the land turns away from her. Some ex-druids make peace with this change; others seek to restore the bond. A few, however, actually embrace their disconnection from nature and become forces of destruction. These few, called blighters, bring desolation wherever they tread.
A blighter gains her spellcasting ability by stripping the earth of life. A swath of deforested land always marks her path through the wilderness.

Quoted from The Complete Divine -- Blighter Prestige Class

Kinda sounds like a necromantic druid to me, but to each their own