What count as the material component of animate dead?

[Maniacwyrm]

So if I can cast animate dead as a spell-like ability, I don’t need the onyx for raising a normal zombie or skeleton, I probably need to cast remove paralysis or contagion for fast or plague zombies. That’s pretty straight forward I think. For sun baked zombies likewise I assume I need to place the body in sunlight and cast desecrate. For frost fallen, since it only requires gems and a bunch of ice, I can ignore that as I ignore the material component.

Did I miss anything or make a wrong assumption?

[Diego Rossi]

Maniacwyrm wrote:

Did I miss anything or make a wrong assumption?

You are conflating monster creation with spellcasting.

The processes you are describing are part of the specific procedure to create the zombie, not part of casting Animate Dead.
Your spell-like ability removes the need for that spell components, not for the other parts of the procedure.

[Claxon]

Yeah, casting as a SLA should only remove the onyx cost, not any other material requirements, as those are specific to creating the undead not the casting of the spell.

[Maniacwyrm]

I see not too big of an issue since most of those requirements are super easy to fulfill(I already have scrolls of contagion and can cast remove paralysis). Sun baked is also easy just kind of time consuming and for frost fallen I guess I could figure out some way to get a ton of ice. Maybe get someone to cast wall of ice over the corpse.

My character personally prefers to use just fast zombies or the skeleton variants anyway so I will cross the frost fallen bridge when I come to it

[Claxon]

It might not seem like much when you're talking about it here, but making sure your character can fulfill the requirements is important nonetheless.

Scrolls cost money, and casting it yourself cost spell slots.

[Name Violation]

i was expecting someone making a case for not needing the body to create a skeleton, trying to argue the body was a material component they could ignore.

[Pizza Lord]

Name Violation wrote:

i was expecting someone making a case for not needing the body to create a skeleton, trying to argue the body was a material component they could ignore.

Right up there with being able to pull them from their spell component pouch whenever needed because a corpse doesn't have a listed cost. "Oh, it can't fit? I used a Huge-size spell component pouch!"

[Diego Rossi]

Pizza Lord wrote:

Name Violation wrote:

i was expecting someone making a case for not needing the body to create a skeleton, trying to argue the body was a material component they could ignore.

Right up there with being able to pull them from their spell component pouch whenever needed because a corpse doesn't have a listed cost. "Oh, it can't fit? I used a Huge-size spell component pouch!"

Naah, you use Eschew materials.

A human body is made of water, carbon, calcium, iron, and other trace materials. All together they are worth a few copper pieces. Well below the feat limit of 1 gp.