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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 2743860" data-attributes="member: 12425">I'd handle this a couple ways. Either a variant (couple levels higher) animate dead spell or allow you to create "special" creatures with regular animate dead but less of them. For example, hunting zombies add +1/2 to the CR. So you would create 1/3 less zombies with animate dead, but they would be hunting zombies. For flavor purposes though, I agree that specific organizations creating zombie and skeleton variants would be very cool. It lets the players instantly recognize a foe and it adds depth. If those variants are particularly powerful, that's where I'd introduce the higher level spell.</blockquote>