Thank you for bringing that to light. Skeletons are a necessity. While I am planning to as some serious content mods for the community, I would rather the basics be there to entice people to get the game. I know you guys are hard at work making new creatures, but please put this one on the list. 

FYI, I think making the models for monsters is probably the most time intensive part of development. At least it is in the top 5. This is one area where an indie game maker is at a huge disadvantage. 

its not the system itself I mind, the mana production and adjustment in spell efficiency as one holds more mana shrines seems fine. Its just that summoning creatures in general is rather lackluster and death magic in specific seems ineffective and bland. The game could use a good dose of giant demon lords and skeleton armies with vampire generals for the people who wish to play a darker faction.

'only' 11 nodes? That's more nodes than I've had at the end of multiple games

That said I agree, Death magic is plenty strong. Life magic's poor scaling on heal is an issue (and regen for that matter), though Life is otherwise strong.

I would like to see more summons than just elementals, kinda boring.

Perhaps its an issue of the size of the game played? I have never seen 11 death nodes on one map period. Most of my opponents are long and dead before I ever reach that tipping point. As a comparison could you not achieve the same/better result with say 11 nodes and fire magic? Added to that is the better early game utility of fire magic.

Look I'm not saying that with enough resources you can't make it effective. Its just that death magic pound for pound at the levels I have played with seems not as effective, and even worse is BORING. I feel (and of course this is my opinion) that in both a method of making it more interesting and bringing an element to the game that seems lacking, you could give death a summoning focus.

To me it would be more interesting if that huge pile of damage at the end of the battle was sitting next to the name of my expensively summoned and maintained Demon Lord or some such.

I'd go through the trouble to find and capture 3 death shards if is was the requirement to summon my Lich hero. 

Hope that clarifies it.

As well as summoning, Fantasy is full of spells to charm, seduce, lure, transform.

At this stage, have we any spell to force à creature on the strategic map to join our cause?

Have we got a spell, to transform an enemy in a less dangerous oponent (frog or sheep transformation)?

There could also be a possibility for new schools of magic that could be new disciplins without shards able to have effects:

- Astral in link with stars, moon and sun as always been a religious and magic source in Fantasy to have effects,

- Inner powers (telekynesis, telepathy, suggestions, metamorphism).

Yes..., more spells