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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 3805168" data-attributes="member: 93">As I have a PC necromancer in my game who has aspirations of army leading, here are the issues based on the rules...A necromancer can control LVLx4 in HD.  That's 64 HD of undeadness.  A Rod of Undead Mastery (IIRC, from Libris Mortis?) can double that to 128.  I suppose that in the case of zombies and skeletons, an argument could be made that you could create a batch of 128 HD, say "march on Greyhawk!" and then create the next batch, with the uncontrolled ones performing their last order, kind of like simple programming.  I'm not sure I buy that, so you need people to control more undead - ideally clerics or other classes that can control undead.Let's assume 5th level controllers for the sake of simplicity.  Each one could control 20 HD.  You'd need 50 clerics (or whatever) to control 1000 skeletons, and 100 to control 1000 zombies.  I don't see any demons in the SRD that specialize in undead control/command, perhaps there are some in the other MM's.  It wouldn't be that much of a stretch to say that a 5 HD demon under Orcus command could control undead as a 5th level cleric - I wouldn't have a problem with saying that they could control double, as if using the Rod of Undead Mastery.  For the fun of it, I would have the sub-commanders have Standards which allow them this control (or extra control) - that way, the PC's have something specific to target that can weaken the army - take out a Standard, and half of the undead assigned to it go into uncontrolled status.</blockquote>

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