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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ElectricDragon" data-source="post: 2848562" data-attributes="member: 10778">We've always played that a single casting of animate dead could only animate zombies or skeletons, not both (but that is a house rule AFAIK). The spell is activated as if the caster level were the level set by the caster who put the spell on the scroll, though (in this case minimum 7th level). A fireball scroll from a 5th level caster does 5d6 damage even if the reader is only 1st level; so the animate dead scroll could animate up to 14 HD of undead from one casting. Unfortunately the reader can only control up to his level times 4 HD (or 8HD in your case) so up to 6HD would be uncontrolled (reader's choice of which are controlled). A Caster Level check DC8 (d20+2) is required, as is an Intelligence of 14.So yes, you could animate 2 1HD skeletons and 1 2HD zombie with one casting, in fact you could double that and still be in control of all of them. You could also make the maximum amount of skeletons and zombies (14 HD) and choose which ones you control. This is all assuming that there are enough dead bodies around. The spell does not provide the dead bodies; the reader must do that.CiaoDave</blockquote>