[b]Question:[/b]
What is the difference between a Life cleric and a necromancer?
[b] Research:[/b]
Life clerics and necromancers are both portrayed raising the dead.
[b]Hypothesis:[/b]
Life clerics and necromancers are very different, and could be even viewed as opposites by some people.
[b] Experiment:[/b]
I will page through vague passages of D&D 5e rulebooks and look at a bunch of online memes to gather information.
[b]Data and Analysis:[/b]
Life clerics are wielders of life giving magic, have great fashion sense, and bring people back from the dead. [i]"You'll be back on your feet in no time!"[/i]
Necromancers are wielders of life giving magic, have great fashion sense, and bring people back from the dead. [i]"You'll be back on your feet in no time!"[/i]
[b]Conclusion:[/b]
Life clerics and necromancers are one and the same.
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Edited by shell: 10/23/2020 11:19:18 PMNecromancers do not wield life giving magic. Well, they might, but it's not how they raise the dead. They use necromantic energy and dark spirits to bind corpses to their will. A creature in a necromancers service is undead. Clerics generally resurrect the dead by plucking their souls from afterlife and binding them back to their body. The fallen are not in their service and are not undead. Necromancers can learn how to resseruct by force, but generally it requires divine favor.