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<blockquote data-quote="winterwolf" data-source="post: 2438294" data-attributes="member: 34572">When I am the only DM in my group (which hasn't happened lately) I have a rule pertaining to summoned creatures. What I say is that if you don't have the creature's stats ready for the game, you can't summon that creature. I have found that this saves a lot of time, and actually can make summoning more fun...if you always summon a specific creature (say, a celestial dog) you become attached to that creature...we even had one case where the player ended up asking me to let him summon the same creature every time (as per the optional rules in the 3.0 dmg on page 96). The player became sad when the creature was &quot;killed&quot; and wasn't able to return to him for a certain period of time. That being said, if the spell does not summon a specific type of skeleton (other than specifying size) I would take the stats from a skeleton from the 3.0 monster manual, and switch out the 3.0 skeleton's 1/2 dmg from piercing/slashing with the 3.5 skeleton's Damage Reduction 5/Bludgeoning. I don't have the Libris Mortis with me ATM, but I know that the summon undead spell from Magic of Faerun just summoned generic skeletons from the MM (granted, that book was 3.0 when skeletons weren't templates).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="winterwolf, post: 2438294, member: 34572"] When I am the only DM in my group (which hasn't happened lately) I have a rule pertaining to summoned creatures. What I say is that if you don't have the creature's stats ready for the game, you can't summon that creature. I have found that this saves a lot of time, and actually can make summoning more fun...if you always summon a specific creature (say, a celestial dog) you become attached to that creature...we even had one case where the player ended up asking me to let him summon the same creature every time (as per the optional rules in the 3.0 dmg on page 96). The player became sad when the creature was "killed" and wasn't able to return to him for a certain period of time. That being said, if the spell does not summon a specific type of skeleton (other than specifying size) I would take the stats from a skeleton from the 3.0 monster manual, and switch out the 3.0 skeleton's 1/2 dmg from piercing/slashing with the 3.5 skeleton's Damage Reduction 5/Bludgeoning. I don't have the Libris Mortis with me ATM, but I know that the summon undead spell from Magic of Faerun just summoned generic skeletons from the MM (granted, that book was 3.0 when skeletons weren't templates). [/QUOTE]

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