Can a Skeleton Champion Wizard cast

[Titania, the Summer Queen]

a Thanotopic Bloodmoney spell to cast animate dead by taking the 1d6 damage and 1 strength damage?

[Robert A Matthews]

You're the GM I assume. They can do whatever you say they can. It seems like that should work. It pierces their immunity to the strength damage.

[Titania, the Summer Queen]

I am the GM, yet I want to follow the rules, as a player, I would want to be able to do what my GM does. If a player created a skeletal champion, would it be game breaking if his skeletal champion did this?

[Are]

No..

Blood money wrote:

Spellcasters who do not have blood cannot cast blood money, and those who are immune to Strength damage (such as undead spellcasters) cannot use blood money to create valuable material components.

Skeletons don't have blood and are also immune to ability damage.

Hold on, I see.. You're suggesting that making the blood money spell thanatopic bypasses those two innate limitations. While that would allow it to pay the additional ability-damage cost, it doesn't grant it blood (some other types of undead wizards, however, would be able to do this).

[Titania, the Summer Queen]

Are, good point. I forgot completely the blood part.. which is utterly silly if you consider the name of the spell! HAHA silly me.

I guess they will be casting animate dead the old fashioned way.

[PrinceDogWaterIII]

Bear with me guys and gals, what if the character in questions is a BLOODY Skeletal Champion? They've got blood coming out their everywhere!

Joking aside, I don't think Thanatopic is needed to cast Blood Money. The benefit of the meta magic doesn't affect physical stats anyways.

Thanatopic:

A thanatopic spell pierces defenses and immunities that protect against death effects, negative levels, and energy drain, affecting the target as if the protective barrier did not exist.

I'm not currently sure of the RAW of Blood Money requiring you to take the state damage to function. Taking a small guess that RAI requires you to have blood and take stat damage. Of course I've been known to be wrong.

The spell automatically calls out anyone who is immune to strength damage. Thanatopic by RAW doesn't bypass stat damage only Death Effects, Negative Levels, and Energy Drain.

Edit: Words are hard to spell. I was super wrong, super wrong.