Variant Skeletons and Hit Dice Limit Question.

[Hellmuffin]

When it comes to creating a skeleton, the rules under Creating a Skeleton states

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If the creature has more than 20 Hit Dice, it can't be made into a skeleton by the animate dead spell

However, for variant skeletons, it states

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Both of these variant skeletons can be created using animate dead, but they count as twice their normal number of Hit Dice per casting.

So the question is, if you used Animate Dead on a creature with 11 HD, which would be doubled to 22 if you wished to make a variant skeleton, would it be considered over the 20 Hit Dice limit, thus making it unable to be made into a variant?

[Val'bryn2]

Yes.

[Hellmuffin]

Val'bryn2 wrote:

Yes.

Thank you. lol