The spell animate dead allows you to create skeletons and zombies from corpses.
My question is this:
Can I create any of the variants of the skeletons (burning, bloody, acid, ect) or zombies (fast, plague, void, ect) with this spell? Or just vanilla skeletons and zombies?
I assume that their are created based on the type of monster they come from for things like HD and whatnot.
Hi there;
Description of variant Skeletons in Bestiary states that you can create these variants using Animate Dead spells, but they count as twice their normal number of hit dice per casting. Once controlled, they count normally against the controller's limit.
Zombie description states that you need to cast another spell for creation of variant zombies. Haste or remove paralysis for fast zombies, Contagion for plague zombies.
Regards.