The Crooked Compass
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Animate Dead
This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature's game statistics).
Level
3
School
Necromancy
Casting time
1 minute
Range
10 feet
Duration
Instantaneous
Components
V, S, M
Classes
Cleric, Wizard
Higher level
When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you animate or reassert control over two additional undead creatures for each slot level above 3rd. Each of the creatures must come from a different corpse or pile of bones.
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