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. They must target a corpse, and the skeleton lasts until killed or until the next long rest.

This spell is a variation of  Animate Dead.

Description

Create a Skeleton that specialises in ranged combat.

The target must be a Medium or Small corpse.

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.