Description
Create 4 ghouls that fight alongside you.Properties
Range: 9 m / 30 ft
Recharge: At higher levels
Casting this spell at a higher level grants no additional benefit.
Creature: Ghoul (Danse Macabre)
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16 (+3)
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17 (+3)
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10
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11
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10
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8
(-1)
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Long rest |
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17 |
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Duration
Hit Points
Armour Class
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)- Lash out with deadly claws and possibly
the target.
- Explode and deal 6d6
Necrotic to all creatures within 3 m / 10 ft.
()- Bite a knocked down, prone, or sleeping target, and deal 3d10 + Strength Modifier
Slashing damage. Heal that many hit points.
How to learn
Notes
- This spell can only be acquired by completing the quest
, in Act Three, which fully unlocks the secrets of the 
Necromancy of Thay. - Unlike
(or other Animate Dead spells), this spell does not require corpses to cast. - The Necromancy School features
and 
both apply to Danse Macabre. With these features, it can summon up to 5 ghouls each with more hit points and damage. - Ghouls summoned by this spell:
- Explode with a Death Burst when killed, dealing area-of-effect damage. This can destroy other ghouls as a chain reaction and hurt nearby party members as well.
- Are immune to
. This prevents them from being driven mad due to a failed Wisdom saving throw when the summoner wears 
Abyss Beckoners. - Cannot be controlled by the player, and can sometimes 'split' player-controlled characters into different sections of the Initiative order (e.g. Player character/Gale/Astarion/Ghoul/Shadowheart). This prevents the player from swapping between party members before the ghoul and party members after the ghoul (e.g. they cannot have Shadowheart cast
before Gale casts a spell with 
damage). This is a potentially large downside to using Danse Macabre. - Act simultaneously since they belong to the same swarm group, if in the same section of the initiative order. This can potentially reduce turn times due to the large number of extra creatures on the battlefield.
- Continue to attack a
target for 0 damage and do not switch targets so long as the target remains knocked out.
- Explode with a Death Burst when killed, dealing
- The incantation for Danse Macabre is Surgē, the Latin command "Rise!"
Bugs
- The tooltip incorrectly states it costs a
Level 5 Spell Slot.
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