Animate Dead: Skeleton

Animate Dead: Skeleton is a level 3 necromancy spell. This spell allows spellcasters to animate a corpse to create a skeleton that focuses on ranged weaponry.

This spell is a variation of Animate Dead.

Description

The Skeleton is armed with a Shortbow and has a Proficiency Bonus of +2.

1d6 + 2 (3~8) Piercing

The Summoned Skeleton has an Armour Class of 10, and 17 Hit Points.

Properties

Details

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

At higher levels

Casting this spell at a higher level grants no additional benefit.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class Level 5: Cleric, and Wizard

• Class Level 9: Oathbreaker

Notes

• Patch 3 introduced a bug where skeletons summoned by this spell do not have weapons.
•  Warlocks with the Pact of the Tome Pact Boon can cast this spell once per Long Rest once they receive Deepened Pact at level 5.

Further Details

Summon Skeleton Stats

Strength	Dexterity	Constitution
10	14	8
Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma
6	8	5

Resistances

Type
Bludgeoning	Vulnerable
Poison	Immune