How to make a broken Necromancer, and even more extreme, how to break DnD in the most over the top (Ainz Ooal Gown Style) ways!

Fun fact: Ainz's build actually follows dnd 3.5e rules, thats why he can use metamagic.

Ironically, in Yggdrasil, Ainz actually had a suboptimal build since he preferred flavor over power.

Interesting fact about Ainz, in Yggdrasil a regular build can only allow 300 spells to be memorized to use, 400 with cash-shop items, but Ainz's build allows him to memorize 718. What's even greater though is the fact that Ainz has memorized not only 718 spells but also countless more solely so he knew how to counter them. Because of his crazy amount of time memorizing spells he is one of the most knowledgeable spell casters in Nazarick. Even though he had a relatively suboptimal build he still had a good K/D ratio due to his knowledge and skill in pvp combat. With his biggest weakness being him fighting players who had builds that he didn't know about.

No, the real way to make Ainz in D&D is to bribe everyone so you can start with all legendary gear, and just keep slipping the DM $100 every time you want to do something crazy.

The name "Sorcerer King" was chosen kind of last minute. Really Ainz has access to and uses many different kinds of magic that would technically put him in every class related to magic of any kind. Mage, wizard, warlock, spellsword, etc. He's actually pretty much every class imaginable since he can change classes at will and can just pull appropriate armor, weapons and items out of his ass or straight up thin air.

Honestly, ainz's most horrifying power is by far his access to the Hidden class "eclipse" which is literally described as "a power over death that eclipses all life in creation" and its signature meta magic "the goal of all life is death" which in exchange for delaying the next insta death type spell's effect by 12 seconds allows said spell to kill even the unkillable, in the game this meant killing races with inmunity to insta death effects, such as all undead races, which counted as already being dead and construcs which were never alive to begin with, and in the new world, it literally kills the entire enviroment within the enhanced spell's effective radious, thanos snapping all vegetation away, turning the ground into sand and fillling the air with deadly miasma that rots the lungs of anyone who breaths that air, thank god that this skill has a 4 whole days CD period

I don't know if someone has already said it but. Fun fact: murayama has said several times that he loves to play dnd and several of the overlord characters are re-imaginings of their pjs in various campaigns he played in the past, he used to be the dm and for that very reason the structure of the overlord world as their characters are so well detailed

its weird that i have actively searched for a video like this for the last couple years only to stumble across this video randomly

As a level 100 character, his physical strength is sufficient to let him lift a two-ton stone throne and throw it like a baseball, in the web novel. His stats are absolutely game-breaking in DnD.

I sometimes create boss monsters to potentially throw at my players if they ever hit a higher level. One of them was a necromancer, i just didn't know how I would be able to effectively pull it off. This will help a lot.

Love how you kept saying his name, very wise of you to show so much respect for the great Ainz Ooal Gown.

Part of what can make your minions really strong as a necromancer is in taking the "inspiring leader" feat. Giving a bunch of your skeletons/zombies an extra chunk of HP in the form of temporary hitpoints just for 10 in game minutes of talking is really really worth it

This video feels geared more towards people who have played DnD since childhood, not ones who just started like me. I couldn't follow any of that after "then at 2nd level"

I would love to see a dnd playthrough with this. Where in the late game the guy would essentially just have an army at the end and the rest of the pc party just sits at the back drinking tea as their Ainz throws an endless stream of undead at the final boss lol

I'm amazed at subtitles for translating *Ainz Ooal Gown* into *Iron's Old Goal*

Love how you have Ainz Ooal Gown in the background in all his badassery while discussing this.

3.5 player here. Love playing Necromancers and I truly enjoyed this video so much I went through how to to create something as powerful with 3.5 books and builds. Instant like and subscribed

Man, this looks like it'll shape up to be a great video. This character is one of my favorites

I absolutely love have much fun you had saying "AINS OOAL GOWN!"

I essentially have this character made from my last Evil Campaign. Except my own build of course. He is a Hadozee Death Domain Cleric at level 20. 20 Constitution and 20 Wisdom. He unfortunately doesn't have the strength to be a Melee class as I left it at 13. But, he has a bag of Holding with Potions of Storm Giant Strength. To compensate. A Staff of the Magi, Robe of the ArchMagi, and Mask of the Dragon Queen. He also wears a ring of three wishes and Ring of Regeneration. He also has other wonderous items inside his bag of holding that he amassed. How? Well, after a full length level 1 to 20 evil campaign 5e, and party members dying due to betrayal my character who faithfully served the Evil God of Knowledge Tepeneth was granted a means by knowledge to amass an Undead army to conquer the whole continent. And, then the Goddess of Death Nova brought back 3 said dead allies to aid in fighting Tepenath who had discovered a divine word capable of killing all the gods. Except Nova as the Goddess of death cannot be killed. So Tepenath went on a God killing spree and the whole campaign involved us essentially freeing him which lead to his God killing. 5 years later is when the other PC's were resurrected and came back to fight Tepenath with the Help of Nova. My character had amassed his undead army filled with monsters of all kinds including Dragons that had been dead for centuries Ancient and the like. Tepenath really was a good choice. But, my character being a Death Domain secretly followed Nova so in the last battle his undead army turned against Tepenath and all of the evil characters fought against him so they could receive wishes granted by Nova. The battle ended when our level 20 Wizard used his 9th level wish to become Tepenath the God of Wisdom. It was epic in description. Tepenath now transferred to the wizards body and Nova disentegrated him outright. And, for everyone's help we all got wishes granted. My character wished to become the undisputed ruler of the entire continent with no negative consequences. And, the campaign ended that session. this world we were in was a part of multi campaign adventure spanning across three different continents with different parties adventuring on each continent. And, my character got to rule this one. And we described our characters 7 years after the events with the God War. My character obsessed with his rule and demanding absolute dominion had used all the Kingdoms and his undead army to scour the continent for wonderous magic items. And he succeeded. He found all the items mentioned above and amassed too much gold to contain. Although he has to rule in balance or the Goddess Nova will end his life. He's essentially OP and has used two of the three wishes on his ring to ensure he cannot die and will always rule the continent in balance. It;'s a shame this world won't be used again as my DM is now working on a whole new world with two other DM's. My most powerful and OP character has achieved what every player wants but, knows is game breaking. And, there's no way to use him except in my imagination of what his rule has become. Great times.

I’m playing my first ever Necromancer. Doing session zero tomorrow. I can’t wait to get this up and running. The campaign is going to 20+. I’ll just end up as your average, totally broken, endgame wizard… Love the video!

Ainz/ Momon... every time he summons an undead... there is a price for it. That price, canonically, comes from the treasury vault of the Tomb of Nazerick. Meaning if he only has so much resources, the undeads he can summon become finite at some point. However... they farmed so much he has NOTHING to worry about.

#DnD Builds always surprise everyone with a powerful and unexpected character. By the way, Happy new Year in advance🥳

Im going to use this information and make all my friends either hate or be annoyed at me for this

Thanks a lot ! It's always amazing to see fellow DnD and Overlord fans!!

Was at work when this premiered so i couldn't chat, but FINALLY! I love this so much

Nice build, kind of wonder what the other MC's making the Isekai Quartet would be? Thanks for your hard work.

playing as a necromancer for the first time and with overlord being my fav anime i loved the fact somone made this video! i shall follow it to the letter!

I saw your vidios and followed you right away. I like how you make the builds so enjoyable. Best cannel

I love that this turns the dnd game into a wargame

ive watched this video a few times now. its one of my favorites

If we go with the canon, lord ainz' cloak literally only has an intimidation effect. I would switch the Robe of the archmage with the Hand and eye of vecna, which indeed only require one attunemend slot when used together. It Switches your alignment, but i think lord Ainz already is neutral evil. The single abilities of eye and hand are very op but Combined they become one of the most powerful things in DnD. Combined they can cast wish. Ainz indeed has the ability to cast "wish upon a Star", but doesn't do it himself because of the drawbacks. Maybe I'd instead replace it with the Ring of three wishes, because he has a Ring that allows him to cast that reality warping spell 3 Times.

Can you use True Polymorph on your Simulacrum to charge it into a powerful undead? Like a Death Dragon? Then just repeat this pattern using your Command Undead if they refuse to serve with various undead forms since you technically have an unlimited amount of bodies to do this with if you want to farm them

I love this thank you for making this

Thank you I needed this

Happy New Year to everyone watching this!!!

OP Necromancers are great in theory but in practice they tend to not work because they bog down combat drastically with all their minions. Even if your DM merges your army into "bulk units by type" you're still potentially adding 2-5 extra "turns" to combat. When you take into account a 4-6 person party plus any of their minions/familiars and the enemies/npcs it can turn combat into a slog. I love the idea and concept but it takes a certain DM and table to pull off reasonably and you have to be pretty forthcoming with all your ideas to break the game as they're not something you can just spring on your DM and not expect them to be very upset.

10:24 apparently it has been said that there is a hard cap of 30 in an ability score that just wasn’t mentioned here.

nice work!

Ayo, this is great. Love Ainz. You should totally do a Sasuke Character build seeing as to how you've done Naruto, Orochimaru and Kakashi.

Love this

if you want it to be even more like Ainz, and your DM uses the books Grim Hollows Players Guide. you can become a Lich and take the traits for summoning :D making all cr 1 or lower permanent yours (lvl 2 lich) your undead when they are brought to 0 hp move full movement and then make an attack (lvl 3 Lich) when even you bring a humanoid to 0hp you can chose to reanimate it into a zombie (lvl 4 Lich) ofc there also comes drawback the higher lvl lich you become :D

damn, this is insane. i love it.

And if your DM is cool ask to use the Grim Hollow rules for turning into a Lich.

Didn't know i need this. But here we are.

it was interesting to watch and learn, but best is the CC when it tried to caption Lord Ainz Ooal Gown

This is my favorite build.

Great job on this as always! Do you know about the Create Magen trick for Necros? I think that would be fitting here.

Just to add a bit to this video. If you use the wish spell to wish that you can use the wand of orcus as if you were orcus; you can then summon any undead who’s hp adds up to 500. I would use the wand to summon 3 lich, but remember there is a 33% chance you lose the ability to cast wish. You can also use true polymorph and the infinite simulacrum strategy described in the video to turn your simulacrum into any undead of CR 20 or lower: just remember you won’t have direct control over your former simulacrum anymore so invest a little in those charisma skills.

Loved this build! Ainz Ooal Gown is an absolute unit! Question though: how would you feel about a Death Domain Cleric Ainz?

Happy New year, loved video. Hope you have had a great Christmas and a happy new year. For a character idea that's could be interesting and fun, Rumplestiltskin/The Dark One from Once upon a time tv show

5 minutes into the video and things seem kinda spicy already with this ainz build

As an alternative way to do necromancer I would go Divine Sorcerer 10/Undead Warlock 10. The trick here is to learn both animate dead and greater restoration as a divine sorcerer (normally cleric spells but they become sorcerer spells to you). As 10th level warlock, you got two 5th-level slots which you recover in short rests, and you can take around 24 of short rests and thus able to cast animate dead 24 times in a given time (following the usual ruling of multiclassing where you can use warlock slots cast other spells). Now, naturally, you start to get exhaustion over doing this, and thus why we learned greater restoration which we can cast as a warlock spell as well (costs 100gp worth of diamonds though). But in theory, it would allow controlling a 144 undead just solo without simulacrum or other extended means (needing just a second warlock slot cast to keep control given undead if care for control). Also can always learn the Dance of Macabre spell as a warlock. Also can get bit more Ainz feeling in having a planar binding spell as well which to use to get your own fiendish companion (for 24 hours) or use infernal calling.

Hell yes!

I know is a relative old video but I have a question that I could not take out of my mind. All of the undead magic that I see people say to use and do tons of undead have a timer on it, like create undead, it only last for 24hours, SO is a temporary undead army with a high potential of get of your control or Im missing something? I want to create a necromancer that could really becoma a villain in the world, and the DM is ok with it if I do within the rules... how could I really have a permanent undead army? Another question, the 14level subclass feat comand undead is better to do what general people say and get a mummy lord ? cuz I think would be better to control a Nightwalker that is CR20, do tons of damage and good health or even a white dragon dracolich?

I actually wanted to make a necromancer character for DnD that was on a quest to make a mcguffin that allowed him to retain control of any undead he created while attuned to the item. It was partially inspired by the orb of undeath in Overlord. It always bugged me that DnD 5e has liches and necromancers but they can''t seem to have the unlimited horde of undead I expect them to have. I know its balance reasons but a level 20 wizard has said goodbye to balance a long time ago.

According to the wiki, Ainz is immune to spells of 60th level and below (out of 100). Translate to dnd, he's immune to spells of 6th level of below (Oh boy Rakshasa level immunity), and immune to Poison, Necrotic, Lightning, Cold, Acid, Radiant, and nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. He has a spell specifically to nullifying his weakness to holy damage. On top of that, swap your Wand of Orcus for a +3 Magical Grimoire if you want less picking fights with demon gods. it adds 3 to your spell DC. Much easier to get, and that with your staff and robes gives your spells a DC of 26 (8+6+5+2+2+3). I have a homebrew build for him as an enemy (it's CR30 to the shock of nobody).

Holy wow I'd overlooked the sheer power of Wights and had been focusing on a more Coffeelock style Animate Dead setup when imagining broken necromancers... wow... EDIT: and then the atropal and shadow dragon... yikes...

Baller!

I am glad someone called him with his pronunciation

Something I recently noticed about his background choice for getting servants The royal background doesn't in get them in 5e you get them with the Knight background from what I've seen

I just came back and find out how to make this build even borken! I watched a video called why you should play as a slime, 'its call something else but who would remember everything they just watched.' What if you create a hombrew race based on the slime monsters in dnd where you can be aicd, posion, neurotic and clone yourself from the start then use simulacrum on top of that creating an extra horde of undead. The down side is you can't hold magic items and wear clothes since you would ruin them or they slide from your grip. Swallowing everything to death would be helpful creating a small batch of undead to aid your party but you have to spit them out or else they would be dissolve into nothing.

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My Ainz build used mythic odyssey of theros book. I did Yuanti pure blood(not the new monsters of multiverse) Took the supernatural gift Anvilwrought.(this allows a reskin of a undead) 18 lvls necromancer wizard and 2 lvls in draconic sorcerer. Takes the meta magic adept feat snagging quicken spell and transmute spell and the same resilant feat. No need for mage armor and meta magic powers with refueling capabilities. The sorcerer spells i picked were all self buff spells so that minimum Charisma score isn't needed for attacks or DCs. Stat wise I ended up with Str 8 Dex 14 Con 14 Int 20 Wis 10 Cha 14

The only problems with all this is that most dms won't let you do all that, and even if they do now you have 100 or so creatures that all get a turn in combat. So that means each round of combat is going to take all day IRL to play through. 5e just isn't equipped to handle this kind of stuff.

To everyone who needs a encounter for there d and d game: how about a brother and sister slightly anthropomorphic red and blue dragon who live in a huge library , they would be of course be the size of ordinary dragons but in stead of flying they use there wings as a cloak around there body (throw in some glasses and wizard hats on the both of em too) since they are friendly wizard dragons who as long as you cook them a dinner that corresponds too there riddle they will give the party some knowledge about something important (perhaps some ancient text about you bbeg?). D and D capybara away!

I understand the arguement that multi-classing would dilude the power a little, but I gotta think that a necro-wizard mixed with a Death Cleric could work, though you are missing out on those 8th and 9th lvl spells

This sounds like quite a trip for like, Solo roleplaying or smt, I do like to imagine someone pulling this off, With the DM having to track like 200 undead. Amazing

Overlooked: casting Summon Undead and using Planar Binding to keep them around for a year.

some times neckromer's just want to raise a family in peace

nice

Ive been waiting for this dnd build for a long ime dammit. Lets gooko

Something nobody wants but I want it so badly 🤣🤣 Build Jerry Smith like cronenberg jerry, or doofus jerry

Well, I know who my next BBEG is.

Not to mention with keen mind and spell sniper with a wizard turns into a spell stealing magical artillery lol Also I would love to see you do a solo leveling build

What all books do you need purchase to have this information on hand? Just to prove it because I won't have access to this video at our d&d location

If you were to kill your giant skelly boi at 500hp before the time expire and then use animate dead on it do you break the 1 day barrier ?

The staff of orcus best option is summoning 7 harpies and zombies with the 500hp worth of zombies.

I think Ainz should have a few points in Charisma as well sincehe was described as having "A kings Charisma"

2 days, one simulacrum, 337 spooky Bois, and a pocket dimension. All we need guys 😂

Was hoping for discussion of Ainz’ epic/mythic spellcasting, but maybe that stopped being a thing after 3rd edition?

Good. This is My version Necromancer of minim of lv 14 Feats: Keep mind, shadow touch (inflint wonds. Magic items Staf of the war msge +3, guants of ogre power, rings of resistances, a ring can cast wish 3 times, Spells Créate unded, turn undead, fly, fire ball, infl. Wounds, fly, shater, invisibilidad, wall of fire, creación, meteor swamp, lighningbolt, s. Undead. If is a npc you can use the statblock of Acererak too. (Is the finsl boss of tomb of anihilation)

You figured it out already, but I am mentioning it nonetheless. Ainz build is completely focused on role play, he didn't make a build that is actually useful in combat. He was the weakest player in his guilt in any Shape or form. He had only two things going for him, he had an immense amount of mana (mp) and chose class level ups wisely, so that he could learn more than twice the amount of spells than normal. I believe he increased it from 300 (the max) to 400 with cash shop items which is possible. But after that, he did simply chose wisely how to level up. Edit: he isnt the weakest, but compared to those who focused on pvp, he is.

ainz multiclass every single class

cool thing, as a shadow dragon if you use your shadow breath on your zombies from your whights you now have a lateral army of shadows and if they all attack a creatures strength with 1d4 they would die instantly, your literally the boogieman

Source for the atropal? I can only find cr 30 and it doesn't have a create wraith feature.

The only D&D thing to do to get Ainz that the video doesn't talk about is to actually go on an adventure to gather the required materials and rituals to construct a phylactery and transfer your soul into it, in your quest to become a Lich. The really good part is that your fellow companions would be entirely oblivious to what it is that you're doing (unless they happen to consult with any sage/wisemen/elder sorceror on the side) until it's too late and you can sacrifice them as a catalyst when the time comes.

Castlevania Belmont would be neat to see

Ok, I got one for you. The Saint of Ehrenfest.

What if you want to create a decent necomancer like Ainz ooal gown were it isn't too borken and you still have rival can defeat you because where is the fun in that?

I'm working on this kind of build in bg3 rn. Probably not going to the same but I'm trying my ass off to make an op necromancer wizard.

I would like to DM a game based on overlord, probably a high level adventure with the PCs starting as the guardians of ains.

Need a Guts from Berzerk build, or if thats too generic you could try Serpico from same series

Do a Geralt build

fun fact ain here be exploting some stuff to get over 700 spell and this man remeber all of them or around half

Basicly alot of overlord class system/magic system is very D&D inspired. Check his character sheet for more inspiration..

What spell do i go for in my 1st lvl

Do you have a way to build this from level 1?

there is a hard cap of 30 for any stat in D&D, even with a tome of clear thought, but yeah if you have a wizard with an intelligence of 30... woof... then the very rare arcane grimore, and a robe of the arcmage (which we see ains actually wearing lol) we can get a final spell save DC of 29, it only takes a few hundred years to recharge the book ofc, and for that? just cast the sequester spell, which locks you in stasis for 100 years so the centuries can zoooom by, easy of course your entire party will have long quit the campaign by the time you've done all this but hey, that's the plot, now you are the DMs bbeg in their next campaign edit, there is a legendary ioun stone that increases your proficiancy bonus by 1, this raises Spell save DC to a 30! nice even number