Appendix 1: Common Spells for Necromancers Previous      Index

These tables list most spells available to necromancer wizards (boldfaced spells belong to the school of Necromancy). When randomly rilling a scroll or spell list, determine the spell's level, then use the frequency table, then the appropriate subtable.
Bold-Italicized spells are described in this book. TOM = Tome of Magic; WH = Complete Wizard's Handbook; SH= Complete Sha'ir's Handbook; FOR = Forgotten Realms Adventures; AA = Arabian Adventures. The rest are found in the 2nd Edition Player's Handbook.

Random Spell Frequency Table

01-60      Offense/Defense
61-90      Divination
91-00      Special/Rare

1st Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Armor
Burning Hands
Catapult (FOR)
Chill Touch
Color Spray
Corpse Visage (WH)
Exterminate
Feather Fall
Fist of Stone (TOM)
Grease
Hold Portal
Light
Magic Missile
Mending
Mount
Protection from Evil
Shield
Shocking Grasp
Spider Climb
Wall of Fog
Divination/Disguise
Comprehend Languages
Corpse Link
Corpselight (FOR)
Detect Disease (WH)
Detect Magic
Detect Undead
Enlarge
Identify
Locate Remains
Message
Read Magic
Special/Rare
Affect Normal Fires
Alarm
Animate Dead Animals
Cantrip
Copy (WH)
Dancing Lights
Erase
Find Familiar
Gaze Reflection
Jump
Lasting Breath (TOM)
Metamorphose Liquids (TOM)
Murdock's Feathery Flyer (TOM)
Protection from Hunger and Thirst (WH)
Scatterspray (FOR)
Spectral Voice
Tenser's Floating Disk
Unseen Servant
Wizard Mark
2nd Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Choke (WH)
Continual Light
Darkness 15' Radius
Flaming Sphere
Fog Cloud
Ghoul Touch (WH)
Ice Knife (WH)
Max's Earthen Grasp (TOM)
Melf's Acid Arrow
Protection from Cantrips
Protection from Paralysis (TOM)
Pyrotechnics
Rope Trick
Shatter
Spectral Hand
Stinking Cloud
Summon Swarm
Vocalize (WH, FOR)
Web
Divination/Disguise
Alter Self
Cloak Undead (FOR)
Death Recall (WH)
Detect Evil
Detect Invisibility
Detect Life (WH)
ESP
Fool's Gold
Living Link
Past Life (TOM)
Whispering Wind
Special/Rare
Decastave (FOR)
Deeppockets
Embalm
Ghost Pipes (FOR)
Glitterdust
Knock
Levitate
Magic Mouth
Rain of Blood (SH)
Skeletal Hands
Strength
Undead Mount (FOR)
Wizard Lock
3rd Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Blink
Delay Death (WH)
Dispel Magic
Dispel Silence (FOR)
Fireball
Flame Arrow
Ghost Armor (FOR)
Haste
Hold Undead
Iron Mind (WH)
Lightning bolt
Melf's Minute Meteors
Mummy Touch (FOR)
Pain Touch (WH)
Paralyze (FOR)
Protection from Evil, 10' Radius
Protection from Normal Missiles
Slow
Spirit Armor (TOM)
Vampiric Touch
Divination/Disguise
Clairaudience
Clairvoyance Delude
False Face
Feign Death
Infravision
Non-Detection
Secret Page
Tongues
Wizard Sight (TOM)
Special/Rare
Alacrity (TOM)
Blacklight (FOR)
Bone Club (WH)
Bone Dance
Explosive Runes
Fly
Gust of Wind
Hovering Skull (WH)
Icelance (FOR)
Item
Leomund's Tiny Hut
Monster Summoning I
Phantom Steed
Revenance (FOR)
Sepia Snake Sigil
Skulltrap
Skull Watch (FOR)
Snapping Teeth (WH)
Ward Against Undead (FOR)
Water Breathing
Wind Wall
4th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Beltyn's Burning Blood (FOR)
Brainkill
Contagion
Dimension Door
Empathic Wound Transfer
Enervation
Evard's Black Tentacles
Lifesurge (SH)
Fire Shield
Ice Storm
Minor Globe of Invulnerability
Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
Polymorph Other
Remove Curse
Shout
Stoneskin
Thunderlance (FOR)
Thunderstaff (TOM)
Wall of Fire
Wall of Ice
Divination/Disguise
Detect Scrying
Halo of Eyes (WH)
Locate Creature (TOM)
Magic Mirror
Mask of Death (TOM)
Massmorph
Polymorph Self
Summon Spirit
Vacancy
Watchware (FOR)
Wizard Eye
Special/Rare
Duplicate (WH)
Dig
Monster Summoning II
Fire Trap
Extension I
Fire Aura (WH)
Fire Gate (FOR)
Plant Growth
Rainbow Pattern
Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer
Solid Fog
Leomund's Secure Shelter
Otiluke's Dispelling Screen (WH)
Spendelard's Chaser (FOR)
Wind Breath (WH)
5th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Animate Dead
Bigby's Interposing Hand
Bind Undead
Bone Blight
Cloudkill
Cone of Cold
Death Smoke (AA)
Dismissal
Graft Flesh
Invulnerability to Normal Weapons (WH)
Magic Jar
Mummy Rot (WH)
Shroud of Flames (FOR)
Summon Shadow
Telekinesis
Teleport
Throbbing Bones (WH)
Wall of Bones (WH)
Wall of Force
Wall of Iron
Wall of Stone
Divination/Disguise
Contact Other Plane
Disguise Undead (FOR)
Distance Distortion
Dream
False Vision
Flesh Mirage (AA)
Know Value (WH)
Sending
Special/Rare
Airy Water
Animal Growth
Avoidance
Conjure Elemental
Death Bump (SH)
Extension II
Fabricate
Force Shapechange (WH)
Improved Skull Watch (FOR)
Leomund's Lamentable Belaborment
Leomund's Secret Chest
Magic Staff (TOM)
Monster Summoning III
Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
Nulathoe's Ninemen (FOR)
Passwall
Rary's Telepathic Bond (WH)
Secure (FOR)
Stoneshape
Transmute Rock to Mud
6th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Anti-Magic Shell
Bigby's Forceful Hand
Blackmantle (WH)
Chain Lightning
Claws of the Umber Hulk (TOM)
Contingency
Dead Man's Eyes (WH)
Death Fog
Death Spell
Disintegrate
Dragon Scales (WH)
Ghoul Gauntlet
Globe of Invulnerability
Grimwald's Creymantle (FOR)
Invulnerability to Magical Weapons (WH)
Lich Touch (FOR)
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Power Word, Silence (FOR)
Project Image
Repulsion
Stone to Flesh
Tentacles (WH)
Divination/Disguise
Flame of Justice (AA)
Legend Lore
Mirage Arcana
True Seeing
Special/Rare
Animate Blood (SH)
Bloodstone's Spectral Steed (TOM)
Conjure Animals
Construct Undead (SH)
Control Weather
Corpse Host
Dust of Death (SH)
Enchant an Item
Ensnarement
Extension III
Glassee
Guards and Wards
Imbue Undead with Spell Ability (FOR)
Invisible Stalker
Lower Water
Monster Summoning IV
Mordenkainen's Lucubration
Move Earth
Part Water
Reincarnation
Teleport Dead (FOR)
Tenser's Transformation
Tentacles (WH)
Transmute Bone to Steel
Transmute Water to Dust
7th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Acid Storm (TOM)
Banishment
Bigby's Grasping Hand
Bloodstone's Frightful Joining (TOM)
Control Undead
Delayed Blast Fireball
Duo-Dimension
Finger of Death
Forcecage
Mordehkainen's Sword
Power Word, Stun
Prismatic Spray
Reverse Gravity
Suffocate (TOM)
Teleport Without Error
Wound Conferral
Divination/Disguise
Sequester
Statue
Vision
Special/Rare
Drawmij's Instant Summons
Lifeproof (AA)
Limited Wish
Monster Summoning V
Mordenkainen's Magnificent
Mansion
Phase Door
Spectral Guard (FOR)
Vanish
Zombie Double (WH)
8th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (TOM)
Bigby's Clenched Fist
Death Link (FOR)
Death Shroud
Great Shout (FOR)
Homunculus Shield (TOM)
Incendiary Cloud
Maze
Mind Blank
Otiluke's Telekinetic Sphere
Polymorph Any Object Power Word, Blind
Prismatic Wall
Serten's Spell Immunity
Sink
Trap the Soul
Divination/Disguise
Screen
Special/Rare
Binding
Clone
Defoliate (WH)
Demand
Fear Ward (WH)
Gateway (FOR)
Glassteel
Life Force Transfer
Monster Summoning VI
Permanency
Sand Worm (AA)
Shadow Form (WH)
Symbol
9th Level Spells
Offense/Defense
Bigby's Crushing Hand
Conflagration (AA)
Energy Drain
Imprisonment
Life Force Exchange
Master Undead (FOR)
Meteor Swarm
Mordenkainen's Disjunction
Power Word, Kill
Prismatic Sphere
Temporal Stasis
Time Stop
Wail of the Banshee (TOM)
Divination/Disguise
Foresight
Shape Change
Special/Rare
Astral Spell
Chain Contingency (TOM)
Crystalbrittle
Death Ward
Gate
Life Water (AA)
Sand Form (AA)
Monster Summoning VII
Succor
Wish

Appendices 1 - 4

Italicized spells are described in this book. TOM = Tome of Magic; WH = Complete Wizard's Handbook; SH= Complete Sha'ir's Handbook; FOR = Forgotten Realms Adventures; AA = Arabian Adventures. The rest are found in the 2nd Edition Player's Handbook.

Appendix 2: Wizard Spells (Necromancy) Appendix 3: Priest Spells (Necromantic)
1st Level
Animate Dead Animals
Chill Touch
Corpse Link
Corpse Visage (WH)
Corpselight (FOR)
Detect Undead
Exterminate
Locate Remains
Spectral Voice
2nd Level
Choke (WH)
Cloak Undead (FOR)
Death Recall (WH)
Detect Life (WH)
Embalm
Ghoul Touch (WH)
Living Link
Rain of Blood (SH)
Skeletal Hands
Spectral Hand
Undead Mount (FOR)
3rd Level
Bone Club (WH)
Bone Dance
Delay Death (WH)
False Face
Feign Death
Hold Undead
Hovering Skull (WH)
Mummy Touch (FOR)
Pain Touch (WH)
Paralyze (FOR)
Revenance (FOR)
Skulltrap
Skull Watch (FOR)
Spirit Armor (TOM)
Vampiric Touch
4th Level
Beltyn's Burning Blood (FOR)
Brainkill
Contagion
Empathic Wound Transfer
Enervation
Lifesurge (SH)
Mask of Death (TOM)
Summon Spirit
Spendelard's Chaser (FOR)
5th Level
Animate Dead
Bind Undead
Bone Blight
Death Bump (SH)
Disguise Undead (FOR)
Flesh Mirage (AA)
Force Shapechange (WH)
Graft Flesh
Improved Skull Watch (FOR)
Magic Jar
Mummy Rot (WH)
Nulathoe's Nincmen (FOR)
Summon Shadow
Throbbing Bones (WH)
Wall of Bones (WH)
6th Level
Animate Blood (SH)
Blackmantle (WH)
Bloodstone's Spectral Steed (TOM)
Construct Undead (SH)
Corpse Host
Dead Man's Eyes (WH)
Death Spell
Flame of Justice (AA)
Ghoul Gauntlet
Grimwald's Greymantle (FOR)
Imbue Undead with Spell Ability (FOR)
Lich Touch (FOR)
Reincarnation
Teleport Dead (FOR)
Transmute Bone to Steel
7th Level
Bloodstone's Frightful Joining (TOM)
Control Undead
Finger of Death
Lifeproof (AA)
Suffocate (TOM)
Wound Conferral
Zombie Double (WH)
8th Level
Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (TOM)
Clone
Death Link (FOR)
Death Shroud
Defoliate (WH)
Homunculus Shield (TOM)
Life Force Transfer
Sand Worm (AA)
Shadow Form (WH)
9th Level
Conflagration (AA)
Death Ward
Energy Drain
Life Force Exchange
Life Water (AA)
Master Undead (FOR)
Sand Form (AA)
Wail of the Banshee (TOM)
1st Level
Detect Life
Ebony Hand
Invisibility to Undead
Skeletal Servant
Spectral Senses
Undead Alacrity
2nd Level
Aid
Hear Heartbeat
Resist Turning
Slow Poison
3rd Level
Animate Dead
Cause/Cure Blindness or Deafness
Cause/Cure Disease
Death's Door
Feign Death
Life Drain
Negative Plane Protection
Remove Paralysis
Speak with Dead
Spirit Bind/Spirit Release
4th Level
Cause Insanity/Cure Insanity
Fortify (TOM)
Heart Blight
Poison/Neutralize Poison
Plague Curse
5th Level
Dispel Good/Dispel Evil
Undead Spell Focus (FOR)
Slay Living/Raise Dead
Scourge
Undead Regeneration/Drain Undead
Undead Ward (TOM)
6th Level
Asphyxiate
Summon Undead
7th Level
Death Pact
Destruction / Resurrection
Energy Drain/Restoration
Mindkiller (TOM)
Wither/Regenerate
Quest
Health Blessing (TOM)
Undead Plague (TOM)

Appendix 4: Master Index of Necromantic Priest and Wizard Spells

Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (W 8, TOM)
Aid (P 2)
Animate Blood (W 6, SH)
Animate Dead (P 3) (W5)
Animate Dead Animals (W 1)
Asphyxiate (P 6)
Beltyn's Burning Blood (W 4, FOR)
Bind Undead (W 5)
Blackmantle (W 6, WH)
Bloodstone's Frightful Joining (W 7, TOM)
Bloodstone's Spiectral Steed (W 6, TOM)
Bone Blight (W 5)
Bone Pub (W 3, WH)
Bone Dance (W 3)
Brainkill (W 4)
Cause Blindness or Deafness (P 3)
Cause Disease (P3)
Cause Insanity (P 4)
Chill Touch (W 1)
Choke (W 2, WH)
Cloak Undead (W 2, FOR)
Clone (W 8)
Conflagration (W 9, AA)
Construct Undead (W 6, SH)
Contagion (W 4)
Control Undead (W 7)
Corpse Host (W 6)
Corpse Link (W 1)
Corpse Visage (W 1, WH)
Corpselight (W 1, FOR)
Cure Blindness or Deafness (P 3)
Cure Disease (P 3)
Cure Insanity (P 4)
Dead Man's Eyes (W 6, WH)
Death Bump (W 5, SH)
Death Link (W 8, FOR)
Death Pact (P 7)
Death Recall (W 2)
Death Shroud (W 8)
Death Spell (W 6)
Death Ward (W 9)
Death's Door (P 3)
Defoliate (W 8, WH)
Delay Death (W 3, WH)
Destruction (P 7)
Detect Life (W 2, WH)
Detect Undead (W 1)
Disguise Undead (W 5, FOR)
Dispel Evil/Good (P 5)
Drain Undead (P 5)
Ebony Hand (P 1)
Embalm (W 2)
Empathic Wound Transfer (W 4)
Energy Drain (P 7) (W9)
Enervation (W 4)
Exterminate (W 1)
False Face (W 3)
Feign Death (P 3) (W3)
Finger of Death (W 7)
Flame of Justice (W 6, AA)
Flesh Mirage (W 5, AA)
Force Shapechange (W 5, WH)
Fortify (P 4, TOM)
Ghoul Gauntlet (W 6)
Ghoul Touch (W 2, WH)
Graft Flesh (W 5)
Grimwald's Creymantle (W 6, FOR)
Health Blessing (P Q, TOM)
Hear Heartbeat (P 2)
Heart Blight (P 4)
Hold Undead (W 3)
Homunculus Shield (W 8, TOM)
Hovering Skull (W 3, WH)
Improved Skull Watch (W 5, FOR)
Invisibility to Undead (P 1)
Lich Touch (W 6, FOR)
Life Drain (P 3)
Life Force Exchange (W 9)
Life Force Transfer (W 8)
Life Water (W 9, AA)
Lifeproof (W 7, AA)
Lifesurge (W 4, SH)
Living Link (W 2)
Locate Remains (W 1)
Magic Jar (W 5)
Mask of Death (W 4, TOM)
Master Undead (W 9, FOR)
Mindkiller (P 7, TOM)
Mummy Rot (W 5, WH)
Mummy Touch (W 3, FOR)
Negative Plane Protection (P 3)
Neutralize Poison (P 4)
Nulathoe's Ninemen (W 5, FOR)
Pain Touch (W 3, WH)
Paralyze (W 3, FOR)
Plague Curse (P 4)
Poison (P 4)
Rain of Blood (W 2, SH)
Raise Dead (P 5)
Regenerate (P 7)
Reincarnate (P7)
Reincarnation (W 6)
Remove Paralysis (P 3)
Resist Turning (P 2)
Restoration (P 7)
Resurrection (P 7)
Revenance (W 3, FOR)
Sand Form (W 9, AA)
Sand Worm (W 6, AA)
Scourge (P 5)
Shadow Form (W 8, WH)
Skeletal Hands (W 2)
Skeletal Servant (P 1)
Skulltrap (W 3)
Skull Watch (W 3, FOR)
Slay Living (P 5)
Slow Poison (P 2)
Speak with Dead (P 3)
Spectral Hand (W 2)
Spectral Senses (P 1)
Spectral Voice (W 1)
Spendelard's Chaser (W 4, FOR)
Spirit Armor (W 3, TOM)
Spirit Bind (P 3)
Spirit Release (P 3)
Suffocate (W 7, TOM)
Summon Shadow (W 5)
Summon Spirit (W 4)
Summon Undead (P 6)
Teleport Dead (W 6, FOR)
Throbbing Bones (W 5, WH)
Transmute Bone to Steel (W 6)
Undead Alacrity (P 1)
Undead Mount (W 2, FOR)
Undead Plague (P Q, TOM)
Undead Regeneration (P 5)
Undead Spell Focus (P 5) (W 6, FOR)
Undead Ward (P5, TOM)
Vampiric Touch (W 3)
Wail of the Banshee (W 9, TOM)
Wall of Bones (W 5, WH)
Wither (P 7)
Wound Conferral (W 7)
Zombie Double (W 7, WH)

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