AnachroNinja
2016-03-30, 07:17 PM
I have an idea I have been tinkering with for a while for an alteration to the standard DND setting. For those of us who are not familiar with the writing of Garth Nix, the Abhorsen Trilogy centers mainly around a somewhat novel view of death, the undead, and necromancers. The main premise is that death is a plane that consists of a river flowing through 9 precincts. Most souls just flow through and to a final afterlife, some struggle to return, becoming evil undead spirits who must feed on life. Necromancers are evil and use magic bells to control the undead. The Abhorsen is a necromancer who binds the undead instead.
There is more to it, but that's the part of the premise I want to make use of. I like the idea of a plane that the dead travel to, with various dangers and hazards. Raising a dead character would become a mini adventure of helping the spirit return from the brink. Creating undead would involve traveling to the plane and bringing bound spirits back into life. I would want to alter the undead creation spells to actually function, giving a range of undead who can be brought back, possibly applying the evolved undead template to spirits who reside in death for a longer period.
I see clerics of a certain diety or Pantheon filling the Abhorsen role, with evil clerics and arcane necromancers being the one's who are distrusted. Likely giving them all a native ability for spirit walking into death, possibly treating it as a coterminous plane similar to the astral or ethereal plane.
I've got other ideas but I'm just not sure if it would actually be fun for players and I was hoping for some input on ideas and whether it would be of interest to you guys if you were players. Thanks for reading. I'll answer any questions I can.
There is more to it, but that's the part of the premise I want to make use of. I like the idea of a plane that the dead travel to, with various dangers and hazards. Raising a dead character would become a mini adventure of helping the spirit return from the brink. Creating undead would involve traveling to the plane and bringing bound spirits back into life. I would want to alter the undead creation spells to actually function, giving a range of undead who can be brought back, possibly applying the evolved undead template to spirits who reside in death for a longer period.
I see clerics of a certain diety or Pantheon filling the Abhorsen role, with evil clerics and arcane necromancers being the one's who are distrusted. Likely giving them all a native ability for spirit walking into death, possibly treating it as a coterminous plane similar to the astral or ethereal plane.
I've got other ideas but I'm just not sure if it would actually be fun for players and I was hoping for some input on ideas and whether it would be of interest to you guys if you were players. Thanks for reading. I'll answer any questions I can.