We all know the old saying, "You can beat a dead horse to the mid-stream but you can't make him look you in the mouth", or however that goes, but I was wondering - what can you do with a dead horse?
Can you Raise Dead on it and get a perfectly healthy horse back, to do the divine beings disallow their clerics from channeling their power for beasts of burden?
Can you reincarnate a horse, or do they really NOT have souls after all?
What would be the implications of animate dead on your horse, in terms of weight carried, speed. It would at least be better behaved, right?
Is there some spell to prevent horse-decay if you do animate it?
Is eating your horse the best way to deal with it, maybe curing it's hide for an area rug, saving the tail hairs for violins, hooves to the apothecary for glue, bones carved up into dice and chess pieces?
What does it take to make the horse's head into one of those dreadful horse-head masks you can wear - and do orcs run from 'disturbed' like they do from 'fear'?
Animate Dead can only target humanoids. If you managed to turn your horse into undead by other means, their carrying capacity would be whatever their new strength score dictates. There are no stat blocks for skeleton draft horses but a warhorse skeleton has the same strength as a warhorse and DMG chapter 9 doesn't list any strength modifications when converting NPC stat blocks into skeletons. The same table says to give NPCs +1 strength if they're zombies, though an ogre and a ogre zombie have the same strength.
No. Gentle Repose only works on corpses, and would prevent the horse from becoming undead in the first place.
Well, animate dead might only target humanoids, but you might still have fun with danse macabre anyways...
EDIT: whoops, horses are Large and that spell requires Small or Medium creatures. Somebody needs to do some fun research... you might even call it horse play...
We all know the old saying, "You can beat a dead horse to the mid-stream but you can't make him look you in the mouth", or however that goes, but I was wondering - what can you do with a dead horse?
Let me know your thoughts, Thanks!
The spells and monsters involved answer the first couple of questions.
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Raise dead, than eat. Fresh meat is better.
I use summon instrument to summon my kettle drum, hold it overhead like Donkey Kong, and chuck it at the nearest kobold.
Well, animate dead might only target humanoids, but you might still have fun with danse macabre anyways...
EDIT: whoops, horses are Large and that spell requires Small or Medium creatures. Somebody needs to do some fun research... you might even call it horse play...