Dawnstar's Necromancy Spells

Wield the arts of death with 3 new cantrips and 11 necromancy spells for Bards, Warlocks, Sorcerers, Clerics, Eldritch Knights, and Wizards.

Cantrips

Pain Puppet

Necromancy Cantrip

2–12 Damage

🎲1d6 Piercing + 1d6 Necrotic

Summon a doll woven with dark magic; stabbing it harms a target of your choice. If you have Blood Offering, you inflict Bleed. A target with more than half its hit points takes 1–4 Necrotic damage and 1–4 Slashing damage instead.

📏9m 🎯Attack Roll

Bone Dust Tongue

Necromancy Cantrip

1–4 Damage

🎲1d4 Necrotic

Exhale cursed smoke, affecting up to three targets. Prevents healing, and if targets have Pluck Life, you regain half the damage dealt back as hit points.

📏3m 🛡️CON Save

Pluck Life

Necromancy Cantrip

Mark a living target’s soul; when they die from necrotic damage, the killer regains 1d4 hit points.

📏9m 🎯Attack Roll 🔁Per turn

🟠Bonus Action

Spells

Level 1

Witches Spill

Level 1 Necromancy Spell

2–12 Damage

🎲2d6 Necrotic

Drop a still-beating heart into a cauldron brimming with necrotic brew, causing it to erupt in a surge of cursed fluid. Creatures caught in the eruption will potentially suffer Disadvantage on Constitution Saving Throws and Disadvantage on Attack Rolls.

On Save: Targets still take half damage.

📏5m 🛡️DEX Save

🟢Action 🔹Level 1 Spell Slot

Seance

Level 1 Necromancy Spell

2–16 Damage

🎲2d8 Necrotic

Initiate a séance to conjure a malevolent spirit and hurl it toward a target. The spirit weaves around obstacles to reach its mark. On a failed saving throw, the target becomes Haunted: attacks against it have Advantage, and its movement speed is halved.

On Save: Targets still take half damage.

📏18m 🛡️WIS Save

🟢Action 🔹Level 1 Spell Slot

Level 2

Blood Offering

Level 2 Necromancy Spell

Sacrifice a portion of your own blood, taking 2–8 Necrotic damage. Melee attackers within 3m who deal physical damage to you take the same amount of damage once per turn. While active, you gain the spell Death Dagger.

🟢Action 🔹Level 2 Spell Slot

Death Dagger

Level 2 Necromancy Spell

1–4 Damage

🎲1d4 Necrotic

Stab a target with a dagger formed out of your own life force. You regain half the damage dealt back as hit points. If the target is affected by Bone Dust Tongue, you regain additional hit points equal to your spellcasting modifier.

⚔️Melee 🎯Attack Roll 🔁Per Turn

🔸Bonus Action

Soul Prism