[DF] Necromantic Talent from Pyramid 3-50

[Dammann]

In the article "Dark Summonings", the Death Knight Template includes an advantage called Necromantic Talent. It is also listed as a prerequisite for the Animate Dead advantge earlier in the same article, as an alternative to Deathliness.

What is this Necromantic Talent, and what is its page reference? I cannot seem to find it. I sort of assume it is intended to be analogous to Bard-Song Talent or something.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Dammann

In the article "Dark Summonings", the Death Knight Template includes an advantage called Necromantic Talent. It is also listed as a prerequisite for the Animate Dead advantge earlier in the same article, as an alternative to Deathliness.

What is this Necromantic Talent, and what is its page reference? I cannot seem to find it. I sort of assume it is intended to be analogous to Bard-Song Talent or something.

Check out DF 9's Necromancer template. It's listed there.

[Dammann]

I have searched DF 9 manually and electronically, to no avail. Are you talking about Deathliness? I am talking about something distinct from Deathliness, priced at 5 per level, listed on page 10 of Pyramid 3-50, among the prerequisites for Animate Dead, and again on page 13 as part of the Death Knight template.

I suspect that this might be a new trait whose write up was somehow omitted. It is not in DF 9, DF 11, or the Pyramid article that prompted this question.

[Blind Mapmaker]

Are you sure it's not 6 points a level? It sounds pretty close to Magery (One College: Necromantic Spells, -40%) [6/level] on top of a regular level of Magery 0. I don't have the Pyramid issue in question, so I can't help you there, but I can confirm that Necromantic Talent isn't in DF 9, Thaumatology or Thaumatology: Magical Styles (which does feature a necromantic style).

[Dammann]

I am sure of what I am seeing, but I am not at all sure if it is correct or what it means.

[Dammann]

This (Death Knight) is a 50 point template meant to be applied with a 250 template for a multi-profession character. It lists Necromantic Talent 1 [5] among the advantages it includes.

The Animate Dead ability includes the prerequisites Deathliness or Necromantic Talent 2+.