OracleX said:
I'm looking for a RPG(like) game were I can play a decent necromancer or summoner.
Games I played that had such characters available which didn't completly suck (imo):
Arcanum
BG II
Summoner
Diablo II
Which game do you guys recommend which one can play as a summoner/necromancer?
Tnx
In dungeon crawl stone soup you can be a summoner or a necromancer. If your character survives long enough you can eventually get both skills.
Spells for the starting summoning book is
1) summon small mammals
2) summon imp
3) summon canine familiar
4) summon scorpions
5) summon ice beast
I think there was something else as well. As your summoning skill increases the spell's power level also gets better, so initially you can only summon jackals and hounds with summon canine familiar but eventually you get war dogs and wolves and maybe even wargs or something (Wolf approximate size of a horse.)
You will eventually happen to run across a high level summoning book where you can summon hydras or dragons. If you happen to miscast Summon scorpion there's a chance that you will summon a hostile scorpion, so.
DCSS in general feels like a Lord of the Rings pen and paper game transfered to a rogue like. All the weapons in MERP are in DCSS. But DCSS has a bunch of unique aspects as well, particularly the Gods.
Necromancy is pretty coo as well. It has a bunch of spells that create permanent summons from skeletons or corpses (the summons from the book of summoning only last a short while.) The higher level necromancy spell I think allow you to enslave a soul permanently to your aid. Necromancy also has a bunch of attack spells versus living and undead creatures, though I'm not sure if they have anything against demons.
There are quite a number of summoning and necromancy spells, as well as conjuration, hex, charm, translocation, transmutation and elemental magic spells. The cool thing is you're not tied to a class. You can be a conjurer\necromancer if you pick the conjurer class and join the Necromancy god (he will give you a book of necromancy shortly after joining him.) Really, you can be whatever class you find spellbooks for.
Summoner\Necromancer\Ice elementalist- whatever.