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Lets say a guy just dropped dead of a heart attack, no pulse, stopped breathing. Now this wizard is right beside him but does not have the right spells to deal with this. So, in a moment of desperation, he casts animate dead and tells the new zombie to have its heart beat. Can we give that specific of a command to a zombie? Would this restore the guy to a long enough life to get him to a healer for a proper healing? Or since he now has a working ticker and is alive again does animate dead stop working on him and thus he goes "Oh darn, my heat just stopped again, I tell you, this is the most annoying thing ever." My outside the box thinking for the day.
No.
Congratulations on your ordinary zombie with a pulse!
Congratulations on your ordinary zombie with a pulse!
This.
I'm pretty sure undead doesn't get cured that easily...
Boring answer by the rules is you get a zombie.*
However I mentioned in another thread that I have a house-rule for magic called the law of unintended consequences, any time you cast a spell in a way that makes everyone go 'huh?' I'm going to take it as an open license to get creative.
I would have so much fun GMing this scenario.
* Rules explanation: You're only a valid target for animate dead once you're dead and on greater than negative constitution hit points. Once you're dead your soul leaves your body and you can't be resuscitated short of resurrection, raise dead, etc.
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From what I understand of life and undeath in the pathfinder universe you are alive by being filled with positive energy, whereas the undead can move by being filled with negative energy, so if anything you've made him more dead.
Should have used the shocking grasp.