Can a Necromancer revive an Undead reduced to zero HP with another casting of Animate Dead / Undeath?


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Simple question, can a Necromancer bring an undead creature back to the "Unliving" by recasting the spell that created the Undead Creature in the first place?

Or is the undead permanently destroyed when reduced to zero HP?


Well animate dead and many other undead creation spells require mostly intact remains. I don't imagine a skeleton or zombie that's been beaten back to death is going to have mostly intact remains anymore.


Yeah, that was the main sticking point.


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Nope, an undead brought to 0 hp is utterly destroyed, there's not enough of it left to re-reanimate.

Grand Lodge

Your question is actually answered within the Animate Dead spell itself:

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A destroyed skeleton or zombie can't be animated again.


Jeff Merola wrote:

Your question is actually answered within the Animate Dead spell itself:

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A destroyed skeleton or zombie can't be animated again.

Wait.... So if burial rites include using create undead then channelling positive energy to destroy said undead, the corpse couldn't be animated again?

Scarab Sages

Yes, but it's easier and doesn't desecrate the body if you just cast a permanent Sanctify Corpse instead.

Remember that once a body has been animated, the only way return that character to life is a Resurrection spell.

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