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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9703864" data-attributes="member: 7030563">This is not true and if it were true players would not play weaker PCs.  Everyone would play a max-power PC tailred for the level and campaign, and they don't.People build their characters to be fun and they play less than optimal characters frequently (virtually all the time in fact) and they do it because those "weaker"characters are fun.If in fact players found weaker characters less fun, then players would not play them.You might make an exception for beginners or someone who does not know the rules, but no one who does know the rules is going to purposely play a character that is not fun for that player to play.I play with one group that higly optimizes their PCs and in the 15 or so 1-20 campaigns we have played, I only had the most powerful PC in one campaign (a Halfling Bladesinger 18/Death Cleric 2). Yet all of my PCs were fun to play, including some that were clearly the weakest at the table at high level.It is not important or even relevant IME.To have 18 skeletons RAW you need to be at least an 11th level Necromancer, have 18 corpses on hand and spend a 6th level slot (5), three 4th level slots (9) and two 3rd level slots (4).  You have to spend those slots every single day if you want to keep 18 Skeletons around.  That is all the 4th and 6th level slots and two out of three 3rd level slots for an 11th level full caster.You can just stop right here with nothing else, no homebrew at all.  A Necromancer running around with 18 skeletons on hand is already weaker most other full casters and most 2024 martials because she is spending most of her most powerful spell slots on the "Skeleton Tax" to keep the undead army around.</blockquote>

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