I am making an iruxi warpriest who wants to cast spells like rouse skeletons, summon undead, and talking corpse. However, Gozreh has the anathema against the creation of undead so I fear GMs might try to shut this down.
I think of it as the character not creating undead (nothing is created or permanent), but rather as the character calling on their ancestral spirits.
Is there any practical reason for a GM to prevent this?
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You can try your luck, but Animate Dead explicitly summons an Undead creature (and the creatures on the list are indeed Undead).
Rouse skeletons feels like Animate object since it never mentions Undead.
Talking Corpse is very specific that you're not calling the soul back (ie not messing with the cycle of life and death) and it does not mention Undead either.
At my table, the first one would not fly (because you ARE creating an Undead however temporarily), but the other 2 would be okay, if unsettling to bystanders.
Summons don't create things. They bring them from somewhere else, no?
To create undead, you need to perform the create undead ritual or do something similar.
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Summons don't create things. They bring them from somewhere else, no?
To create undead, you need to perform the create undead ritual or do something similar.
Despite their name, the Summon spells do create temporary facsimiles of the creatures. Not actual ones living somewhere waiting for a low-level caster to call on them.
Note that the Animate Dead spell is not tagged as a Summon, but it works like one.
So, you create something, by having your magic "dredge up a corpse or skeleton and fill it with necromantic life". And that thing is an Undead.
So, not at my table for followers of Gozreh or Pharasma or whoever with that anathema.
I do agree that, that particular spell is more of a stretch than the others.
Still, I think there is enough wiggle room that an argument could be made.
Also, animate undead is old hat.
I'm talking about summon undead from Player Core, which does have the Summon trait.
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I am making an iruxi warpriest who wants to cast spells like rouse skeletons, summon undead, and talking corpse. However, Gozreh has the anathema against the creation of undead so I fear GMs might try to shut this down.
I think of it as the character not creating undead (nothing is created or permanent), but rather as the character calling on their ancestral spirits.
Is there any practical reason for a GM to prevent this?
Honestly, kinda sounds like your character's religion teacher was Fat Tony...