D&D 5E Detect magic and Gargolye

[Ridley's Cohort]

I and my players wouldn't even bother detecting magic. We would just smash the skeleton on general principles of paranoia. If it wasn't undead, no harm done.

Totally. Do not even leave fresh kills around, because someone might animate them. Collect the heads and dispose of them.

As for statues, why even play this game? The PCs should bring adamantine tools and obliterate any cultural artifacts they cannot sell.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Totally. Do not even leave fresh kills around, because someone might animate them. Collect the heads and dispose of them.

What, you think this is Walking Dead, zombies do not need a head in D&D. If you are going to keep the dead from rising, you better have a grinder and even then you may still get something strange...Blood Pudding.