Not Dead Yet
You cast this spell while touching the cloth doll against the intact corpse of a Medium or smaller humanoid that died within the last hour. At the end of the casting, the body reanimates as an undead creature under your control. While the spell lasts, your consciousness resides in the animated body. You can use an action to manipulate the body’s limbs in order to make it move, and you can see and hear through the body’s eyes and ears, but your own body becomes unconscious. The animated body can neither attack nor defend itself. This spell doesn’t change the appearance of the corpse, so further measures might be needed if the body is to be used in a way that involves fooling observers into believing it’s still alive. The spell ends instantly, and your consciousness returns to your body, if either your real body or the animated body takes any damage.
You can’t use any of the target’s abilities except for nonmagical movement and darkvision. You don’t have access to its knowledge, proficiencies, or anything else that was held in its now dead mind, and you can’t make it speak.
Classes
slugnot-dead-yet
higher_level
page
rangeTouch
target_range_sort1
componentsV, S, M
requires_verbal_componentsYes
requires_somatic_componentsYes
requires_material_componentsYes
materiala cloth doll filled with herbs and diamond dust worth 100 gp
can_be_cast_as_ritualYes
durationUp to 1 hour
requires_concentrationYes
casting_time1 minute
level_int4
spell_level4
schoolnecromancy
dnd_classCleric, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
archetype
circles
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