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So, I'm DMing for a party with a necromancer cleric. Up until now, he's had three little skeletons following him about which wasn't much trouble to manage. But now he's got animate dead as well as a large supply of corpses to fill his 25HD limit as a level 5 cleric. He's planning on using ten bloody skeletons and 5 regular skeletons, but I'm not quite sure how to balance this properly. I've considered just adding the xp total of the skeletons onto my encounter budgets but I'm worried this will give me some very high AC creatures. Should I really just be throwing lots of low CR monsters at this undead horde or is there a better way? I'm quite new to DMing so there may be a rule for this I'm not aware of, but any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.