Your Opinion About Something in Book One

[The Viscount]

We haven't played Book 2 yet, so please, no spoilers.

Late in Book 1, at 4th level, we received a scroll of animate dead about four rooms after encountering the intact skeleton of a bulette. My immediate thought was to go back and animate it as a tank/pet for the rest of the dungeon. My DM was not thrilled with the idea, so I saved the scroll, but my thought was the presence of these two items, so close together, had to be a deliberate design decision on the part of the designers.

My question to you is should players be allowed to animate the bulette bones? Should they be discouraged from doing so, even if it is technically allowed? Did Paizo make a big mistake by putting these two things so close together?

[Zaister]

A bulette skeleton is CR 4, so I don't thik it should be that big a problem. It will not last forever, since the characters probably won't be able to heal it.

[wordelo]

My player, the wizard, animated the bulette. The rogue was a worshiper of pharasma so he wasn't having it. A fight broke out and the wizard simply let it loose to fight on its own. to make matters worse they got close to the ooze during that and it joined in the fray. The wizard was supposed to be LG. I gave him a good talkin to about that and he apologized both in game and out of game.

They turned the gold they would have gotten from selling the animate dead scroll into XP.