I suppose my concern is it's already easy to have that paintbrush on hand when you start with "necromancer."Īre there any examples of animated objects in Wesnoth thus far? I can't think of any, but I'm quite possibly wrong. Then again, there are examples of characters working with demons that aren't automatically chaotic evil (dresden files, ethshar).
I, for one, like the idea of not requiring this sort of thing being "auto-evil." Sure, in general it's not a good (or sane) thing to do, and will offend the heck out of people, but it seems worthwhile to stay out of that sort of two-dimensional "always chaotic-evil" land. Relatively minor fluff quibble (I generally agree with the rest of what you had to say), but why does it have to be a demon or spirit of any kind? Aside from religion concerns with demons, fantasy is just as rife with examples of animating objects without any sort of recognizably pre-existing external spirit as with animating things through grabbing a spirit and stuffing it into the object. Simons Mith wrote:How about, summon a shapeshifting demon spirit of some kind Possibly split to a new thread if you want to explore this area. Yes, there may well be liches that use this technique too, but I think these could make an interesting new class of monsters in their own right. So, what do you do when, thanks to recent combat, you've got an excess of ribcages, skulls and humeruses, but a tibia and fibula shortage? How about, summon a shapeshifting demon spirit of some kind, instead of the ghost of a human/dwarf/elf warrior, and give it some sort of bone spider skeleton construct to inhabit? Result: some of the distorted monstrosities in this thread, many of which will be unique. Or maybe bones can be treated as interchangeable components, I don't know. Maybe in order to have a sketelon warrior, you have to have a mostly complete set of bones from one person. Just look at the recruitment animations for these units. Simons Mith wrote:I think a lot of these examples are crossing the line from liches into what I'd call 'bone golems'.Īs a piece of background information, undead leaders can often be assumed to have extensive ossuaries an 'armory' of skeleton parts that can be used to assemble their Bone Shooters, Skeleton Archers, Draugs and all.
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