How would you feel about giving Finger of Death the ability to create different undead if upcasted?

[KombatKingo]

I'd also like to point out that if the minions get their own minions, they'll be robbing us of the valuable corpses for Finger of Death. As in, it'll likely not be recommended to have them use those abilities, because the necromancer could just do it himself, and get a more powerful undead in the process.

 

[MarkB]

I'd also like to point out that if the minions get their own minions, they'll be robbing us of the valuable corpses for Finger of Death. As in, it'll likely not be recommended to have them use those abilities, because the necromancer could just do it himself, and get a more powerful undead in the process.

Except that the undead will often have unlimited uses of their minion-creating abilities, while the caster only has so many upcast spell slots available on any one day. So it's only an issue if you have fewer potential targets than you have spell slots.

 

[KombatKingo]

That's a fair point. I guess that if a necromancer isn't in a rush to get his army up then he might just use his upcast slots every day, but if he needs an army now he'll let his minions get to work. Depends more on the situation.