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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DogBackward" data-source="post: 3484536" data-attributes="member: 50642">C'mon, this is easy. New rule: Any undead under your control cannot have more HD than your permanent caster level for the Animate Dead spell. Every Corpsecrafter feat you possess increases the HD limit of all of your Animated undead by +1 HD. SO if you had Corpsecrafter and Nimble Bones, you could have 10 HD undead, rather than only 8 HD.Permanent CL means that even Arcane Spell Power wouldn't be able to animate a 9 HD creature, using our level 8 Dread Necro. You could animate more of them at once with the higher CL, true, but they'd all be 8 HD or less.This means that only a dedicated undead mage can have undead servants that will actually be truly effective in combat. Your average necromancer, without any Corpsecrafter feats, will have the same total HD of undead, but they won't be as effective in actual combat. Whereas someone who specializes in undead creation, with a host of Corpsecrafter feats, can have less undead, but they'l be more powerful. Still not 20 HD, however, which is a good thing.For example, our 8th level Dread Necro, human, who uses all of his feats for Corpsecrafter feats would still only be able to control an undead with a total of 12 HD. And this takes true dedication, too, with no other feats being taken.</blockquote>