Is it against the rules to animate a dead body using animate object? If yes how would you stat such a creature. Medium animated object or Just swap the zombie over to the construct type?
No, it's fine by the rules: a corpse is an object, and the resulting creature would be an animated object, which is a kind of construct. A Small one though, as the Animate Objects spell has to target "one Small object per caster level".
So you can make a murdered Halfling family dance like puppets on a string, but dead Dwarves still can't dance.
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They can dance if they want to.
They can leave their beards behind.
aren't their rules in animate objects for bigger objects?
Yes, the animate objects spell can create larger objects, depending on caster level:
An animated object can be of any nonmagical material. You may animate one Small or smaller object or a corresponding number of larger objects as follows: A Medium object counts as two Small or smaller objects, a Large object as four, a Huge object as eight, a Gargantuan object as 16, and a Colossal object as 32. You can change the designated target or targets as a move action, as if directing an active spell.
So if you have a caster level of 16, for instance, you can create up to 16 small objects, up to 8 medium objects, up to 4 large objects, up to 2 huge objects, or one gargantuan object.
How unbalancing of a spell would it be that animated zombies as constructs instead of undead?
Very unbalancing ...in favour of the Animate Dead spell.
How do you figure?
Animate Dead:
- Creates a permanent creature.
- Can be used to create minions of a specific number of HD, or with templates.
- Is a 3rd level spell.
Animate Objects:
- Lasts one round ler level, unless you cast another spell (Permanency) and cough up 15,000 gp.
- Creates only one type of creature.
- Is a 6th level spell.
My question was would it be unbalanced to make a spell lets say its called animate corpses. That animates corpses as Constructs wrather than undead. ANd would it be unbalanced to make this spell the same level as animate dead?
i was just wondering because a construct cant be turned and gets bonus HP from its size so i thought it might be unbalanced or something.