The Necromancer is a one player The Wretched hack that uses birthday candles, a tarot deck, a 6 sided dice, and a journal to tell the queer story of a necromancer desperate to return their dead love back to life. I made heavy use of The Wretched & Alone SRD in writing this, but it is a stand alone game! The Story Necromancy is a curse and a disease, and it inevitably kills the practitioner. You’re not entirely sure what you did to become a necromancer, but you know that the forces of life and death themselves now bend to your will. Upon the discovery of your necromancy, the town you live in pushed you to the very outskirts. They now treat you with scorn and derision, as if the whims of fate had been yours to command, and you chose this death sentence for yourself. You are hideously powerful, you could snap a mortal in twain with but a thought if you wished to. You can make legions of corpses rise from the dead and dance for days without exerting yourself at all. As far as you are aware, the one thing you can’t do seems to be true resurrection. Animating a body and reattaching a soul are two entirely different things, and what good is one without the other? Your partner has recently died. As you aren’t blessed with foresight, you didn’t see it coming, but you are possibly the only person who can fix this. You can bring them back. You found a book which contains a ritual to revive them for real, but it’s dangerous, and you know that using your powers will hasten your own death if you aren’t careful. The ritual is incomplete, and your earnest belief is that the person who wrote it probably died trying to complete it. You have to give it a try, though. Your death, your failure, is almost inevitable… but you know they would have done it for you, and there is a chance it will work out. There is a chance you can see them again. You’d do anything for that chance. Content Warnings Some specific content to be aware of includes: physical injury, abandonment, death & sickness (as well as descriptions of both, in both people and animals), and general misery. Source: The Game Website.