Talk:Animate Dead (wizard)/@comment-31124876-20170326174748

In Baldur's Gate, the amount of summoned skeletons depends on the experience level of the caster, a level 7 priest could summon 7 undead creatures, as the five creatures summoning limit doesn't exist. As a result, a party with 2 priests or mages who can cast this spell, could summon between 14-18 undead creatures at the top of the experience limit. Undead creatures are also immune to the effects of Stinking Cloud and Cloudkill (although they will become aggressive to the party from Cloudkill, they are still controllable). Undead don't have the potential to deal a lot of damage, but they can be used to encircle tough enemies and let the party attack with spells and other ranged weapons.



The caster could control the undead until they were slain or until turned by Turn Undead. The spell was consequently made less powerful in Shadows of Amn and the enhanced editions.



Note: Spell descriptions shown in-game often vary significantly from their actual in-game implementations.



          -- Anonymous