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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6994927" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Might I suggest that the way you will handle having all those skeletons around is that your enemies will simply destroy vast swaths of them at a time, meaning you'd be better off focusing not on the quantity of the undead you control, but the quality of them.Use some zombies or skeletons when that is all you can do, then focus upon the ghouls, ghasts, wights, or mummies that create undead will eventually give you access to.Rather than spending numerous spell slots retaining control of vast numbers of undead each day, use only 1 or 2 slots for that and focus the rest on means of supporting or enhancing them - for example, every 3rd-level spell slot you spend to keep control of an extensive hoard of skeletons is a spell slot you can't counterspell a fireball targeting your relatively frail minions.And if you just really have to have as many skeletons as possible and you need a way to handle that better, talk to your DM about using the mob attack rules from the DMG for them, though if I were your DM I would be strongly encouraging you not to go down this road because while it might seem cool now, it just isn't going to be, and I'd rather save you the heartbreak.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6994927, member: 6701872"] Might I suggest that the way you will handle having all those skeletons around is that your enemies will simply destroy vast swaths of them at a time, meaning you'd be better off focusing not on the quantity of the undead you control, but the quality of them. Use some zombies or skeletons when that is all you can do, then focus upon the ghouls, ghasts, wights, or mummies that [I]create undead[/I] will eventually give you access to. Rather than spending numerous spell slots retaining control of vast numbers of undead each day, use only 1 or 2 slots for that and focus the rest on means of supporting or enhancing them - for example, every 3rd-level spell slot you spend to keep control of an extensive hoard of skeletons is a spell slot you can't [I]counterspell[/I] a [I]fireball[/I] targeting your relatively frail minions. And if you just really have to have as many skeletons as possible and you need a way to handle that better, talk to your DM about using the mob attack rules from the DMG for them, though if I were your DM I would be strongly encouraging you not to go down this road because while it might seem cool now, it just isn't going to be, and I'd rather save you the heartbreak. [/QUOTE]

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