Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature’s game statistics).
Can a bloody skeleton be created by animate dead?
The bloody skeleton and burning skeleton variants are created by use of the animate dead spell but count as double their normal HD when doing so. Note: This spell can be used on any mostly intact dead vermin that has an exoskeleton. When this is done the creature gains the exoskeleton template.
Can you make Skelton zombies in animate dead?
Default by the rules, you can only create the normal skelton and zombie creatures with the spell, the basic human warrior ones, not anything fancy like ‘skeletal war horse’ or ‘zombie troll’ or anything else. It does not apply templates to the base creature as the 3rd edition version did.
How does animate dead work in RuneScape?
Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature’s game statistics).
When do you use a bonus action in animate dead?
On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one).
How many undead creatures can you animate with animate dead?
This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating a new one. 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.
