alec6694 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 While I realize there are a number of necromancy mods all over the nexus (I for one use PsiKotics necromancy mod) that allow you to raise armies of undead to do your bidding, this is great and all, having permanent summons is fun to use, but not very practical in the grand scheme of things, minions always seem to fall behind and I find that combat is over before my skeletons even get to lay a beating on the opponent, that or they are constantly getting in the way and I end up killing them half the time. Bethesda has handled conjuration as just that, conjuring minions and using the corpses of the fallen to conjure different minions, and while having permanent summons is extremely fun, it just seems more practical to have a summon that suffers a time limit and can be placed directly into the fight. So this is what I propose: The concept of pokeballs being used to capture creatures in mods from oblivion (I think theres also one for skyrim as well) could be used to control your minions, now, rather than just throwing a pokeball and poof a minion pops out, how about placing those permanent summons of yours within a kind of "soul gem bag" with a spell casted at them, when combat is started, your summons will be released from the bag and begin to follow you, initating combat with the enemy as well, and when combat is over they disappear right back into the bag, if a minion is killed, they will be removed from your active amount of summons within the bag. On another note, this concept is a little more lore-friendly, as necromancy SHOULD be something people are afraid of, walking around town with an army of zombies, NPCs dont really seem to notice or even care for that matter, a bandit sees a weak little mage and begins to attack and is greeted by an army of undead soon after. I realize that I'm not a great modder at all so I don't know how to do this myself, but I think this could be done with someone that has knowledge of scripts with SKSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldreactive Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 To be more lore friendly, you could do it like persona, and contract an agreement with that specific type of minion. Each minion would give you a radiant quest to complete to fulfill your contract, higher level minions would have tougher quests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I Like the Army Idea it's a shame Bethesda Nerfed the Necromancy. I prefer the Diablo 2 Necromancer being able to summon armies of Undead to Fight for you. http://home.pbegames.com/diablo2/images/delicious_army.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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