Hey everyone; lovely game you have here and I'm looking forward to more involvement as I learn more about it!

Here's the thing: I really like the style and concept of playing as a necromancer, yet I've been told that making your first character ever (yes, new blood!) a necromancer isn't a good idea since lots of people will hate me, caster classes are more difficult, and I can expect to have goody two-shoed paladins - and more! - nipping at my heels at all times.

With all this in mind, I whipped up a dumb brute of an anti-paladin instead, but I still find myself wanting to raise undead hordes and generally be a (more magically-based) Big Bad™.

So if I was to scrap the AP and make a necromancer - bearing in mind that I've barely gotten to level 5 and have only just started to poke my head out of the Academy on my current character - what advice would you give (aside from "don't", which is what I've heard already )?