Animate Dead

Level

Level 3 · Necromancy

Cost

Action + 3rd-level spell slot

Range

3 m

Components

Verbal, Somatic

Create an undead servant from a corpse.

Options when you cast it 2

Who can get it

From the game's class, subclass and race progression tables (the level is the class or character level it first becomes available at), feat choices, equipment boosts and scrolls.

Classes 3

• Cleric · always known, from level 5
• Warlock · always known, from level 5
• Bard · can pick, from level 10

Subclasses 13

• Abjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Bladesinging (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Circle of the Spores (Druid) · always known, from level 5
• Conjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Death Domain (Cleric) · always known, from level 5
• Divination (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Enchantment (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Evocation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Illusion (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Necromancy (Wizard) · can pick, always known, from level 5
• Transmutation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• College of Lore (Bard) · can pick, from level 6
• Oathbreaker (Paladin) · always known, from level 9

Equipment 1

• Circle of Bones · always known

Scrolls and items 1

• Scroll of Animate Dead · casts it, can copy into a spellbook