Animate Lesser Undead

This spell turns up to five tiny beasts or one small beast, like rats, birds, or insects into undead servants. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of five tiny beasts or one small beast within range. The targets are raised to false life by your fingers and follow your command. On each of your turns, you can use an action to control the creatures you made with this spell if the creatures are within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creatures will take and where they will move during their next turn.

The creaturers have the following actions:

Swarm: Distract a target. The target makes a Wisdom Saving Throw. On a failure, it suffers -1 to its next Attack roll for every tiny beast or -5 for a small beast.

Bite: Attack a target. Make a melee spell attack, dealing 1 damage for every tiny beast or 2d4 damage for a small beast.

Death Burst: Cause the bodies to explode and expire. Targets in a 5ft radius make a Constitution Saving Throw or become diseased. Diseased targets suffer disadvantage on all saving throws and a -1 to their hit point maximums per tiny beast or 1d4 for a small beast. The target can repeat its saving throw on its turn, ending the effect on a success. Hit point maximums are restored after a short or long rest.

Consume: Destroy dead organic matter. The undead beasts swarm in a feeding frenzy and destroy up to 5lbs per undead per round.

Tiny beasts have the following stats: AC5, 1HP, Speed 20ft.

Small beasts have the following stats: AC10, 5HP, Speed 20ft.

You can also command your creatures to Use an Item, keep a lookout, or other things not listed here up to the discretion of your DM. Undead require specific instructions to properly perform a given task.

Undead that are destroyed in combat or take the death burst action cannot be raised again with another use of this spell.

You can't have more than 5 tiny beasts or 1 small beast under your control with multiple spell castings.