Doug's Army of Darkness

One of the most evil spells created or discovered by the foul necromancer Doug Murphy.

This spell requires possession of the Book of Vile Deeds, creates an army of undead servants, and can only be cast once per year. The spell must be cast in either a graveyard or other location with an adequate number of dead bodies (piles of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range). Your spell imbues the targets with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The targets becomes a skeleton or a zombie (the GM has the creature's game statistics). To cast this spell, the player must utter the words, "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto" for the spell to work upon success an army of 20d10 + spell casting modifier undead will rise to do the casters bidding.

On each of your turns, you can use an action to mentally command the creatures you made with this spell if the creature is within 100 feet of you. You decide what action the creatures will take and where they will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creatures only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

The army is under your control for 6 hours, after which it crumbles to the ground.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, you can raise an additional 5d10 creaturse for each slot level above 6th. The creatures must be within 250 feet of each other when you target them.

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