Another old shitpost I don’t think I posted anywhere.

  • neoman4426@fedia.io
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    Interestingly, as written the pile of bones can be any pile of bones, since the Humanoid restriction parses to only being applied to the corpse section, confirmed in the Sage Advice Compendium for 5e (the wording of the spell has not been substantially changed in 5.5 for that part, only changing what the group does when you don’t issue a command. Though I don’t think that’s included in 5.5’s SAC so far). So if you have enough, like, chicken bones to arrange into the size for the skeleton statblock, that RAW works.

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      If I was DM’ing, I might let you reanimate a pile of chicken bones, but you get a chicken skeleton with a chicken stat block.

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        If I animate a wolf skeleton does it get a wolf statblock?

        A version that can animate up to specific sizes and CRs when cast at a high enough level would be pretty neat.

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          I’d say sure. It’s not like the wolf statblock is crazy different from regular skeleton stats; it wouldn’t be game breaking or anything.

          RAW on Animated Dead doesn’t strictly limit the size of the creature when it’s a pile of bones, but I think keeping it to small/medium creatures is reasonable.

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            D&D 5e does, not sure about other editions or other game systems off the top of my head.

            Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range.

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              Well, that depends on how you group the statements.

              Choose (a pile of bones) or (a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid) within range.

              OR

              Choose (a pile of bones) or (a corpse) of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range.

              Though I suppose also:

              Choose (a pile of bones) or (a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range).

              Which would mean the bones version has unlimited range.

              Yes, I am a programmer, why do you ask?