Animate Dead: What exactly can I animate?

[cmastah]

I asked this in another thread, but thought I'd open one up specifically to ask about the kinds of skeletons and zombies I'd be able to animate.

For instance, where does the spell stand on skeletal champions, juju zombies and ghouls?

[Drakkiel]

I do not see them listed as "official" variants that are listed with the spell I guess it would be up to your GM for skeletal champions and juju zombies

Ghouls on the other hand are covered under "Create Undead" which is a 6th level spell

Quote:

Create Undead

School necromancy [evil]; Level cleric/oracle 6, sorcerer/wizard 6; Domain death 6, evil 6
CASTING

Casting Time 1 hour
Components V, S, M (a clay pot filled with grave dirt and an onyx gem worth at least 50 gp per HD of the undead to be created)
EFFECT

Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target one corpse
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no

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DESCRIPTION

A much more potent spell than animate dead, this evil spell allows you to infuse a dead body with negative energy to create more powerful sorts of undead: ghouls, ghasts, mummies, and mohrgs.

[pika626]

I believe you are capable of creating any skeleton/zombie variant so long as it's not specified under Create Undead, the more powerful spell. I believe the cost for creating them is double the HD per skeleton/zombie and it is listed in the monsters' description as to what you need to create it.

[SquirmWyrm]

Undead Revisited covered this subject in the introduction. Skeletal Champions and Juju Zombies (and the Zombie Lord) are created with Create Undead.

[The Human Diversion]

Animate your fellow party members. From experience, they LOVE it when you do that.

[cmastah]

Thanks for the help, I'm actually the DM in this scenario and was using a zuvembie, so I wanted to know what it could animate with that spell.

I'll mix up the animated undead with burning skeletons, fast zombies, plague zombies and regular zombies.