Funny Idea, not sure if rules legal.

[Xelah]

I've thought up a way to turn animate dead into a snall scale tac-nuke.

Kill a bunch of rats or other tiny creatures.
Put them all into a pile.
Cast animate dead with reach metamagic added to it.
Raise one rat as a burning skeleton, raise the rest as exploding skeletons.

If you have a desecrate effect going, you can raise twice your caster level of single-template skeletons, which if you're an agent of the grave with the undead master feat, we're talking at level 10, effective caster level 19 on animate dead, so 38d6 damage with a crapton of saves for half.

My question is, since the spell doesn't say you cannot, can you put different templates on creatures you raise in a single casting of the spell?

[Lady-J]

naw make them bloody burning chickens that way when they die they blow up and come back 1 hour later send them into town and watch the chain reaction

[Brew Bird]

I see no reason why you couldn't apply different templates to different targets.

[derpdidruid]

Yes sir, and that will be 75gp per rat please!

[Gallant Armor]

1. Wouldn't it be 25 gp per exploding rat and 50 gp for the burning rat?
2. Blood Money exists

[James Risner]

Your GM is skilled at responding to "it doesn't say I can't" with "but I do".