At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th Level or higher, you animate or reassert control over two additional Undead creatures for each slot above 3rd. Each of the creatures must come from a different corpse or pile of bones.
Does create undead consume the Onyx?
Create Undead doesn’t say that the onyx stones are consumed so no, you don’t need to “burn” 450 gp each time you (re)cast the spell but you do still need to provide the components for each recasting. The rules for components can be found on page 203 of the PHB.
How are ghouls made 5e?
Creation. It was believed that a living man or woman who’d tasted the flesh of people would rise again as ghouls after they died. This was not proven, but it fitted their cannibalistic behavior. However, others believed that anyone who indulged in extreme debauchery and evil could become a ghoul after death.
What’s the difference between a zombie and a ghoul?
They can last all day if you command them properly. Zombies have a fun ability called “Undead Fortitude”, making them a useful wall at lower levels. At higher levels, Create Undead lets you make better things. Ghouls have Claw Paralyze. Wights have MaxHP reduction. Mummies can both reduce MaxHP AND Paralyze.
Which is more dangerous a ghast or a ghoul?
Ghouls and ghasts are a classic pair of flesh-devouring undead creatures dating all the way back to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, ghasts being the more dangerous of the two.
What’s the difference between a ghast and a skeleton?
Unlike skeletons and zombies, which are created by necromancers casting animate dead, ghouls and ghasts are purported to have demonic origins (although there exists a spell usable by player characters, create undead, to produce them as well—here the lore and the rules contradict each other).
What’s the best way to escape a ghoul?
Its chances of escape are best if it uses its action to Dash—and it can still carry off the paralyzed PC while doing so. But every round spent running away is a round in which dinner might wake up, and a ghoul is always hungry. Once it has a paralyzed victim, it can’t resist the compulsion to keep eating.
