Do skeletons and zombies ONLY come from the create undead spells?

[Emirikol]

Do skeletons and zombies ONLY come from the create undead spells?

jh

 

[Nifft]

That's not really a D&D Rules question... DMs can have them spontaneously arise in regions of evil magic, or wherever appropriate.

The rules only say that a character can create them using a spell. Not that they can only exist if created by that spell.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Emirikol]

That's not really a D&D Rules question... DMs can have them spontaneously arise in regions of evil magic, or wherever appropriate. The rules only say that a character can create them using a spell. Not that they can only exist if created by that spell. Cheers, -- N

But there's no other official way to create a skeleton or zombie other than the spell right?

jh

 

[Ranes]

Technically, they come from Animate Dead. Create Undead and Create Greater Undead are for nastier stuff. But like Nifft said, there's no reason they can't be created as a result of non-specific naughtiness.

 

[Nifft]

But there's no other official way to create a skeleton or zombie other than the spell right?

Fell Animate [Metamagic] would do it.

Necromancer variant in UA gets a skeleton as a familiar replacement without using a spell.

There are probably some rules in the BoVD on evil areas spontaneously animating skeletons and/or zombies... but I can't remember any off the top of my head.

Cheers, -- N

 

[rgard]

Do skeletons and zombies ONLY come from the create undead spells?

jh

In one of my homebrews there were the normal undead skeletons and zombies created with the spells.

Then I threw in a lost mine, some dwarves who found metal rooms (inside of a long buried spaceship) in that mine and a virus/plague that turned dead people into zombies. It was fun when the cleric's turning attempts failed horribly. Didn't take to long until they figured out, "kill the brain, kill the ghoul." We used called shots for that. Obviously I'm a George Romero fan.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[newgrace]

and if we are just talking about where undead come from, dont forget spawns from other undead. And the description of many undead explain why they are undead, such as extreme anger in life, etc. etc.

 

[hong]

Well, you know, maybe undead are just people who forgot to die. Kind of like the secret of flight is forgetting to hit the ground, as so lucidly expounded by Douglas Adams.

 

[the_mighty_agrippa]

There are a number of monsters that create minor undead as part of their schtick.

 

[Darklone]

Skeletons happen when hungry ghouls meet zombies.