EUO — a free-to-play, Ultima-inspired, tile-based MMORPG — has added Necromancers as a playable character class:

Necromancers are a blade-wielder sorcerer-commander of the undead!
They are live on all servers! I got them done in just under 2 years! Well, since bonecrafting is not finished yet, then they are technically still not done :fp:

They were a subset of mage but are now fully their own distinct class with 3 skills: Necromancy, Hexblades and Bonecrafting.

If you want to make a Necro then you will have to roll one from scratch: there is no conversion process. Or of course you can trimskill 😉

Talk to the lich in the newbie jail to get started on collecting your Necromancer spells!

A list of Necromancer spells can be found in this forum post at the EUO website. And if you’re wondering what Hexblades are, there’s an explanation for those as well:

Hexblades consist of 4 weapons: the Athame, the sickle, the stiletto and the kris, and created by casting a Dark Ritual spell on an equipped longsword, scythe, rondel or kryss. Here is the conversion table:

* longsword->athame
* rondel->stiletto
* kryss->krys
* scythe->sickle

All non artifacts will convert, and convert back. There are no artifact hexblades at this time 😥
All hexblades use the 50/50 STR/DEX ratio… which makes necros a strange stat build: as they rely on INT for magic damage, STR for HP like everyone else, but DEX for speed. I may move that ratio to 75/25… so that DEX become less important. Will hear opinions on how this should go… I personally only want what keeps everyone happy.

Since this is a new character class, expect there to be some balance issues to begin with.