Undead Minion Abilities

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This article contains all the options for necromancer characters who want to create Undead Minions, in the form of corporeal Wights or Wight Lords, or incorporeal Wraiths or Wraith Lords. See the main article on Undead Minions for all the other rules.

Undead Minions are typically made via Spells from the Necromancy Realm, but can also be made via some Powers, and can in rare cases "arise" on their own (in which case they are not "minions" initially).

Please note that Undead Minions are as powerful as they'll ever be, once created. They do not, in any sense of the word, "level up".

Minion Levels

Each of the four types of Minion has some base abilities. General unchangeable abilities are presented in the main article on Undead Minions. Below, abilities that all Minions of a given type have for free, are state as having a cost of 0. Optional abilities are stated as having a cost higher than 0, and in all cases the cost on any given line is the total cost to have that amount of ability; you do not add up costs from previous lines containing less powerful versions of the exact same ability.

The costs stated in this article are all in Minion Levels, which have no formal acronym or abbreviation, since they are only used in this one place.

In addition to the cost of chosen abilities, there's a base cost of 2 Minion Levels for a Wight or 1 for a Wraith, and 5 Minion Levels for a Wight Lord or 3 for a Wraith Lord.

The sum cost in Minion Levels of all the desired abilities, plus the base cos, is then converted into an Essence cost, possibly influenced by some traits that the Summoning or Animating character may haVE, or some other circumstances, which dictate that the cost is not derived from the left-most Essence cost column, but shifted one or more columns to the right.

If the necromancer character is eligible for more than one such column shift, take the one biggest shift and perform it as is, e.g. 3 or 4 columns. The second-biggest shift is divided by 2 and rounded up. The third-biggest and lower shifts are divided by 2 and rounded down. In this way it is more attractive to have an ability that gives one big column shift, rather than several abilities that give small column shifts.

Each Minion Level has a base cost of 0.333 (a litle under 1/3) Essence, and each column shift (CS) represents a discount of 5%, although rounding (up to the nearest 0.1) usually interferes with this. NOTE: this will be changed to a non-linear non-formuaic progression, much like Familiar Levels, maybe staring with only 0.15 ES per Minion Level and going up to eventally 0.5 ES/level.

Power Points

All Undead Minions have Power Points, but not all have something to use them for (those that don't can just ignore their Power Points). Every Week, half of the maximum Power Points, rounded up, are regained, although some circumstances can limit Power Point regan or thwart it entirely. There may also be some circumstances under which Power Points can be regained faster, or regained instantly in small amounts.

Basic Minions

This table gives the basic cost, in Minion Levels, of the four types of Undead Minion.

This table gives the base maximum Intelligence of an Undead Minion, and options for raising the minimum.

This table gives the basic RD for Turn Undead rolls, for each Undead Minion type, as well as an option for raising it.

This table gives the base Darklife stat for each Minion type, as well as an option for increasing it. Under normal circumstances a Wight or Wraith regains 2 Darklife per night, and a Wight Lord or Wraith Lord regains 3 Darklife per night.

This table gives the basic Power Points, and options for increasing them. Half (round up) of the Power Points are regained every Week.

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See also

Undead for general rules on Undead.
Undead Minions for all the other rules on Undead Minions.
Necromancy the Realm that contains the Spells most commonly used to create Undead Minions.

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