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Roog
2018-09-28, 07:04 PM
I'm looking at bring the Summon Undead line of spells into Pathfinder for a game using Pathfinder with 3.X material.

As Pathfinder has a different standard for CR for summoning spells, the summoning list needs to be revised.
This gives me an opportunity to expand the spell to Summon Undead IX and expand the list of creatures.
Any suggestions for refining the list of creatures would be appreciated :)

When creating the lists of creatures I am attempting to meet the following goals:
- Use mostly PF creatures, fill in with 3.XE converted to PF where needed
- ideally use creatures published on d20pfsrd.com
- should include the most common and recognisable forms of undead
- should include most (if not all) of the creatures that the 3.5E version of the spell could summon
- 4-8 options per level
- creatures should have a range of uses, including:

a variety of combat functions

a mix of intelligent and mindless undead

corporeal undead that can fly and swim
- creature should be of reasonable power (eg not have SLA >> spell level). Creatures are not absolutely required to have the standard CR for the spell level, but it would be nice if they all do.
- avoid undead that that have strong motivations that could distract from combat (eg ghosts)
- avoid overly complex undead where possible (eg those with full spellcasting), especially at lower levels
- avoid unique creatures (eg the burning child)

Some of the creatures are listed as Creature A -or- Creature B.
In those cases, I think that having both creatures on the list would be redundant, but I am not sure which creature would be more appropriate.


Summon Undead
Summon Undead functions as Summon Monster of the same level, except that creatures are summoned from the following lists:

Summon Undead I (CR < 1)
- Human warrior skeleton (CR 1/3)
- Kobold zombie (CR ¼)
- Beheaded, Belching (CR ½)
- Exoskeleton Giant Cockroach (CR ½)

Summon Undead II (CR 1)
- Bugbear zombie (CR 1) {shield, morningstar}
- Bugbear Skeleton (CR 1) {shield, javelins}
- Exoskeleton Giant Crab (CR 1)
- Festrog (CR 1)
- Ghoul or Lacedon (CR 1)
- Wolf Fast Zombie (CR1)

Summon Undead III (CR 2)
- Draugr (CR 2) {with Javelin and Greataxe}
- Ogre zombie (CR 2)
- Owlbear skeleton (CR 2)
- Zombie Crocodile

Summon Undead IV (CR 3-4)
- Allip (CR 3)
? Blackskate (CR4, StW) -or- some other aquatic undead
- Exoskeleton Giant Stag Beetle (CR 4)
- Ghast (advance to 4hd) (CR 3)
- Mountain Festrog (CR 4)
- Shadow (CR 3)
- Troll or Scrag skeleton (CR 3)
- Wight (CR 3) -or- Cairn Wight (CR4) {javelins}
- Wyvern Fast Zombie (CR 4)

Summon Undead V (CR 5-6)
- Brute Wight (CR 5) {javelins}
- Deathweb (CR 6)
- Ghul (CR5) {javelins}
- Hill Giant Zombie (CR5) {greatclub}
- Mummy (CR 5) {what weapons would be appropriate?}
- Skaveling (Ghoul Bat) (CR5)
- Vampire spawn (CR 4) {use template or advance to CR5-6?}
- Wraith (CR 5)

Summon Undead VI (CR 7-8)
- Bodak (CR 8)
- Exoskeleton Titan Centipede (CR 8)
- Mohrg (CR 8)
- Shadow, Greater (CR 8) -or- Spectre (CR 7)
- Zombie, Giant (Storm) (CR 8) -or- Fast Zombie, Giant (Storm) (CR 8)
- Fast Zombie, Crocodile, Dire (CR7)
- Great Ghul (CR7) {with Giant Creature template, advanced to 8hd}
- Ghast Stone Giant (CR 8)

Summon Undead VII (CR 9-10)
- Baykok (CR 9)
- Exoskeleton Shipwrecker Crab (CR 9) -or- Exoskeleton Deadly Mantis (CR10)
- Frostfallen Mammoth (CR 10)
- Leng Ghoul (CR10) -or- Abyssal Ghoul (CR10, FF)
- Multiplying T-Rex Skeleton (CR 9)
- Witchfire (CR 9)

Summon Undead VIII (CR 11-12)
? Demonic Mohrg (CR12)
- Devourer (CR 11)
- Entropic Reaper (CR 12, LM)
- Nightshade, Nightskitter (CR 12)
? Shenzuzhou (CR12)
? Ulgurstasta (CR11, FF)

Summon Undead IX (CR 13-14)
- Banshee (CR 13)
? Danse Macabre (CR 14)
- Dread Wraith (CR 13)
- Necronaut (CR 14, MMIII)
- Nightshade, Nightwing (CR 14)