So, I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Guild Wars 2 (technically I’m awaiting preorder of the game) and I’m very much looking forward to playing a necromancer. I’ve got my desktop background set to the spooky dude they have from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, there’s the bird imagery in the background for the Guild Wars 2 necromancer and the profession has this power called “locust swarm.” First things first, the locust swarm thing irritates me because I know the Diablo 3 “witch doctor” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There have been a lot of zombie movies over the years, and other people have done reviews of the different types of zombie creation, but this isn’t about the many different types of zombies, it’s about my favorite type of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Does it come as any surprise that, when I start looking into death symbolism (thank you Wikipedia), that most of the animals commonly associated with death are nocturnal? Admittedly, it wasn’t until after I got quite a bit into it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not unlike the Diablo 2 necromancer, the Guild Wars necromancer runs with the idea that necromancers can be priests to an unseen god, forces of balance in a world where conflict and strife are constants. Individual necromancers have different suites […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Guild Wars Ritualist is a bit of an odd duck. In some ways, I’d almost consider them more of a necromancer than the necromancer profession — they actually summon spirits of the dead rather than crafting servants out of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guild Wars necromancers are associated with the somewhat vague (some more than others) blood, poison, disease, vermin, curse, ice, and shadow elements, while Diablo 2 necromancers are associated with poison, bone, spirit, bone, teeth, bone, plague, disease, bone, bone, blood, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dungeons & Dragons has kind of a weird idea of death — or at least, one that’s varied throughout the various editions. I’ll admit that I know more about third edition (3.x), particularly the revised third edition, than any of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my very first posts on this blog was a fanboy squeal over the Necromancer from Guild Wars 2. Now, Guild Wars 2 isn’t out yet, so I can’t actually review it, but I can speculate about the powers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have this pet cosmology that I’ve been working on for a while now, which fuels the magic system I’ve been developing. It draws ideas from a lot of sources (like any good idea), though the strongest influences have been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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