Rules Update: Higher Lists available online

They rate slightly lower than Divine Ceremonies. 

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They rate slightly lower than Divine Ceremonies. 

Your just still upset about me owning you in the Disney/Marvel thread

Gavin, you're wrong about puppet. Yes it was removed, and once someone was corrupted (a certain dashing older elf paladin), it was discussed with a group of people all who were very well versed in sorcery rules and all agreed corruption would necessitate the puppet in order for the corrupted person to be able to get their regular self back without having to take a death.

The only reason they got changed is because the listed skills didn't exist, at all, so they were changed to existing ones, rather than leaving them as non-existent skills.

Please do NOT nitpick these lists.  Many of them are very old, and in need of serious revision, and the Staff and Marshals are WELL aware of this.  We're focusing on the core rules of the game first, to make sure there is a solid foundation upon which to rebuild the higher lists.

Regardless of how much it makes sense, the Higher Lists as they are now are not open for debate.  You of all people (Gavin) know the Higher Lists are intended for a serious overhaul in the near future and the skills will stand as they are now (for better or for worse) until we can revise the entire system.  It would be unfair for us to simply revise the lists/skills we feel do not mesh well without revising every higher list to the same degree. 

Fair enough, I will keep it to regular questions and clarification requests then.

A Black Sorcerer who cast the ritual that turns them into a lich gets a skill called "Control Undead Horde"

I may be mistaken, but I can't seem to find any mention of that skill/spell in the online rulebook.

What does it do?  It is listed as having an MP cost.  How is it cast?  With a cost of 3 MP, is it a 3rd rank necromancy spell?  Is it surge casted?

EDIT: IIRC, it used to function like this: Surge Cast, control all non-ritual undead in a 20ft radius of the Lich.  Is that still the case?