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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corlon" data-source="post: 1967325" data-attributes="member: 6905">Getting the book Libris Mortis and seeing the warlocks animate dead invocation (the dead walk I think) inspired me to look back at the exact text of animate dead, and seeing it again just made me wonder if having it as a spell/invocation was really worth it.  I mean, let's say a 9th level caster uses it.  That's up to 18 HD of skeletons and/or zombies.  The only even slightly dangerous sekeleton (well, for that level anyways) would be the Huge skeleton (CR 2) which you could get four of, as well as one large skeleton.  You could also get one gargantuan skeleton in addition to a large skeleton, which would be a fairly good investment, seeing as a gargantuan skeleton is pretty good at pumeling things.  Zombies have pretty much the same problem, but I think they're a bit worse because of the more HD for less fighting ability.Getting up into Huge+ size categories could be a good use for the spell, but then my question is (especially for warlocks) how to find a large amount of large sized corpses (well, besides going out and butchering giants).Are there good uses for smaller sized zombies/skeletons?I know about the corpse crafter feat set from Libris Mortis, but that's only really good for a person specializing in summoning creatures, and not just picking up animate dead.</blockquote>