The Devout and the Dead: a guide to Clerics

[Yorrin]

This is pure speculation on my part, but I've long thought a Cleric 1/Death Favored Soul X could make a really interesting necromancer. With the distant metamagic you wind up with a character who can use both Inflict Wounds and Vampiric touch at 30' ranges. It's also pretty much the only way to get animate dead on a sorcerer without a lot of hideously unfavorable multiclassing.

No idea if it'd be at all effective, but it struck me as an interesting interaction.

An interesting proposition! I don't use UA material at my table or in my guide, so I haven't considered the implications of multiclassing with Favored Soul. I can see some uses, certainly. I'd think Oathbreaker/Favored Soul might be better for the undead army because of Cha synergy, but the ranged Inflict Wounds and Vampiric Touch certainly have their uses.