I mean that outlook, while it’s cool for your campaign, it would make raising the dead (to fight for you) pretty difficult as I thought most animate dead type spells required a dead creature to animate and wouldnt work with an object, otherwise people would just make small effigies to animate instead of summoning the dead in battle.
Animate Dead targets a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid. Create Undead targets corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids. Danse Macabre targets Small or Medium corpses. And you could technically use Animate Object, which targets objects, or True Polymorph, which can target either. Finger of Death and Negative Energy Flood both target a creature, but they just bring back the target as undead if the attack kills them.
But if you really get into it, the game has way too many assumptions to be played RAW. There’s no rule that you can’t walk through walls. There’s no rule that when you’re reduced to zero hitpoints you become an object or get transported to an afterlife dimension or otherwise can’t take actions (assuming you die instantly and don’t become Unconscious). Some weapons require two hands, and nobody can use them because none of the races are described as having hands. Thri-kreen have four arms, but no mention of hands at the end of them. You also need one hand to wield one-handed weapons, but this doesn’t come up because no weapons are described as one-handed. And sometimes the rules contradict. There’s a rule that in the case of a contradiction, the more specific rule applies, but that just adds yet another contradicting rule.
I think I must be missing some major changes since the last time I played, it’s been a while but I was merely remarking on the oddities of spells that require dead creatures if the DM is going to insist that upon death you are now an “object”. Really it’s whatever the DM wants I suppose just seems like an odd choice personally.
What do you mean by playing RAW? Is that a similar to AD&D or more like D&D?
Sincerely apologize if I offended, peace to all.
Edit: after rereading it I feel like I might be following better and just wanted to ask if everything is going okay? It’s cool if I’m misinterpreting your intentions by saying that none of the races are described as having hands, I just want to set differences aside and offer some humanity if you need (or want) it.
I mean that outlook, while it’s cool for your campaign, it would make raising the dead (to fight for you) pretty difficult as I thought most animate dead type spells required a dead creature to animate and wouldnt work with an object, otherwise people would just make small effigies to animate instead of summoning the dead in battle.
Animate Dead targets a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid. Create Undead targets corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids. Danse Macabre targets Small or Medium corpses. And you could technically use Animate Object, which targets objects, or True Polymorph, which can target either. Finger of Death and Negative Energy Flood both target a creature, but they just bring back the target as undead if the attack kills them.
But if you really get into it, the game has way too many assumptions to be played RAW. There’s no rule that you can’t walk through walls. There’s no rule that when you’re reduced to zero hitpoints you become an object or get transported to an afterlife dimension or otherwise can’t take actions (assuming you die instantly and don’t become Unconscious). Some weapons require two hands, and nobody can use them because none of the races are described as having hands. Thri-kreen have four arms, but no mention of hands at the end of them. You also need one hand to wield one-handed weapons, but this doesn’t come up because no weapons are described as one-handed. And sometimes the rules contradict. There’s a rule that in the case of a contradiction, the more specific rule applies, but that just adds yet another contradicting rule.
I think I must be missing some major changes since the last time I played, it’s been a while but I was merely remarking on the oddities of spells that require dead creatures if the DM is going to insist that upon death you are now an “object”. Really it’s whatever the DM wants I suppose just seems like an odd choice personally.
What do you mean by playing RAW? Is that a similar to AD&D or more like D&D?
Sincerely apologize if I offended, peace to all.
Edit: after rereading it I feel like I might be following better and just wanted to ask if everything is going okay? It’s cool if I’m misinterpreting your intentions by saying that none of the races are described as having hands, I just want to set differences aside and offer some humanity if you need (or want) it.