Bone Knights Animate Dead abilty

[Yogibear41]

Bone Knights get a limited form of Animate Dead, where the target rises as a Karrnathi Skeleton or Karrnathi zombie. However upon consulting the appropriate book to find those monsters, they are not listed as templates and rather are just two different 3hd monsters, that are essentially intelligent zombies or skeletons, when using this ability should it basically just apply a zombie or skeleton template to whatever it is used on but allow them to keep the same int, or does it always create the same old 3hd monsters that are presented in the ECS.

The ability doesn't really say so I assume its up to interpretation, but only being able to make 3hd monsters seems rather bad...

[Raezeman]

i would interpret this as indeed, only capable as creating the 3HD monsters, meaning you can only use it on humanoids. You could modify the stats of the undead a bit when using it on a small/large undead, by using the 'changing monster size rules' from the dungeon master guide.
At least, this is how as a DM i would let a player use it.