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My question is about the Wizard Necromancy Arcane School tied with the Control Undead Feat that you can gain from this school. According to the School:
Power over Undead (Su)
You receive Command Undead or Turn Undead as a bonus feat. You can channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier, but only to use the selected feat. You can take other feats to add to this ability, such as Extra Channel and Improved Channel, but not feats that alter this ability, such as Elemental Channel and Alignment Channel. The DC to save against these feats is equal to 10 + 1/2 your wizard level + your Charisma modifier. At 20th level, undead cannot add their channel resistance to the save against this ability.
Which means that a Wizard could take the Command Undead option. Command undead states:
Benefit: As a standard action, you can use one of your uses of channel negative energy to enslave undead within 30 feet. Undead receive a Will save to negate the effect. The DC for this Will save is equal to 10 + 1/2 your cleric level + your Charisma modifier. Undead that fail their saves fall under your control, obeying your commands to the best of their ability, as if under the effects of control undead. Intelligent undead receive a new saving throw each day to resist your command. You can control any number of undead, so long as their total Hit Dice do not exceed your cleric level.
Which means that you have to refer to the Wizard/Sorcerer spell Control Undead which has a targets:
Targets up to 2 HD/level of undead creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
So a 5th level Wizard can control how many HD worth of undead? 10 HD?
I ask because if you are a cleric and you have the Command Undead feat, you are technically casting a spell tied to the Wizard class, so it seems that the HD a CLERIC could control at 5th level who had this Feat, is Zero, because they would not be able to control any HD worth of Undead, because they have no Wizard Levels, which is determined by the Spell Targets.So what determines the Level in the '2 HD/level of undead creatures' portion of the text; is it Wizard level? Or is cleric level? Or, in this case, is it simply PC level? Because if I am a cleric with this ability, I have no Wizard levels which means that I can't control any HD worth of Undead, according to the spell being on the Wizard/Sorcerer spell list, but if I am a Necromancy Arcane School Wizard, I can not control any Undead at all because according to the Feat, I can only 'control any number of undead, so long as their total Hit Dice do not exceed your cleric level', level's of which, as a Wizard, I do not have?
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It is referring to caster level for the spell, not total amount controlled. It is basically stating that per casting you cannot target more than twice your caster level worth of undead. You can control any number through the spell as it does not have the cap that animate dead does. However it does not last forever and as a spell is normally dispelable (not the case with the control version as it is supernatural).
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It is referring to caster level for the spell, not total amount controlled. It is basically stating that per casting you cannot target more than twice your caster level worth of undead. You can control any number through the spell as it does not have the cap that animate dead does. However it does not last forever and as a spell is normally dispelable (not the case with the control version as it is supernatural).
So if I am a Multiclass Bard say, level 5, and decide to take a Level as a Wizard at Level 6, does that mean that I can control up to 2 Undead? Or that I can control up to 2 Hit Die levels worth of undead?