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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sage Genesis" data-source="post: 6528620" data-attributes="member: 6706099">First of all, precedent of previous editions is hardly relevant. Unlike most RPGs, D&D tends to make some pretty sweeping changes over the years as the editions tick by. Entire classes and paradigms have been radically overhauled from one edition to another, so what a past edition did isn't very persuasive IMO.Second, the idea that Animate Dead doesn't create creatures strikes me as a very tortured reading. A spell is cast, now there is a creature that didn't exist before. Pretty clear cut if you ask me. The fact that it does so from certain materials doesn't diminish that fact. To suggest otherwise is like saying Fireball doesn't deal damage because it merely creates the flames which in turn might inflict damage; a hair-splitting exercise in an attempt to deny what is plain as day.I mean this as an honest question but... have you read the 5e Animate Dead spell recently? Because you quite explicitly do need to keep casting the spell daily to maintain control. I don't know how much more "magic is required to keep it controlled" you can get than that.</blockquote>