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This post was stupid, I apologize to anyone who read it.

One last question (actually a couple of them, as I'm writing this) for clarification about HD and CR correlation:

(Please don't hate me for the following, possibly totally stupid thought that bothers my weird mind. I'm no GM and while this might be crystal clear to you, I do need clarification on this :)
From the Skeleton entry in the Bestiary Sekeletons with a CR of 6 have 12-14HD. So would the created undead Dire Wolf have 12-14HD? And would the increase of +1CR for the Bloody template for a total of CR7 give him 15-17HD?
(I don't think it would because that would be stupidly overpowered, so I think CR only matters to GM)

Quote:

Hit Dice: A skeleton drops any HD gained from class levels and changes racial HD to d8s. Creatures without racial HD are treated as if they have 1 racial HD.

Your fighter loses all class-based HD and comes back as a skeleton with 1 HD (unless he's getting additional racial HD from somewhere).

Everything else is correct. He can wear armor, use weapons, etc.

Oh yeah he gets his d10 from class, makes sense. So I can't actually make a powerfull Skeleton out of him, or any of the player races for that matter?

Thanks for all that awesome insight and the guide, it helped a ton.

Another question though on how exactly animate dead works.

Let's say I kill 2 Dire Wolves .
I assume I simply use the Skeleton template on those, to create 2 Skeleton Wolves (or whatever they may be called afterwards) and can also turn them into Bloody/Burning without any trouble? The CR does not matter to me, I only care for HD, right? So those 2 wolves would count as 18HD of undead (9 each).

And one more for good measure :)

Our 10th level Fighter dies and I want to use animate dead on him. Does it simply turn him into a Skeleton with 10HD (with me being able to apply the Bloody/Burning template onto him)?

The template states

Hit Dice: A skeleton drops any HD gained from class levels and changes racial HD to d8s. Creatures without racial HD are treated as if they have 1 racial HD.

So he gets 10 8-sided die, am I correct?

Again, thank you for all the help, you're awesome!

Edit: Ok, so my DM thinks that the above mentioned 10th level Fighter would be CR 10, but I think he would be CR 5 because he has 10HD when he dies? Is he correct, meaning that when I cast animate dead on him he would have over 20HD?

Hey everyone, as the title says I'm looking for advice on how to properly build a necromancer that does most of his work with undead minions.

I've read quite a few threads, but most of them are like 2 or 3 years old and, being new to necromancers, I don't know how reliable those discussions are today.

So please tell me, what, in your eyes, makes the most potent minion-mancer. (class, race, feats, whatever comes to mind) If possible, no 3pp :)

Also, I've come across a confusing (for me at least) statement quite often, which is:

Your undead limit counts separately for each of your classes

I do not quite understand that statement. Does it make a difference if I'm let's say a 16th level mage versus being a Oracle8/Mage8? For me both cases amount to 16x4HD of undead minions (8x4 + 8x4 in the second case).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: I'm not posting any of my ideas mostly because they are not very well developed, but also because I do not want to influence what advice I receive :)