Curse of Undeath

Name: Curse of Undeath

School: Necromancy

Level: 4

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a drop of blood from an undead creature)

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You touch a humanoid creature and inflict it with a curse of undeath. While you maintain concentration on this spell, any time the cursed creature reduces a living creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, that creature rises as a zombie under your control. The zombie is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your verbal commands. The cursed creature cannot control the zombie, and if it tries to destroy the zombie or take any other action that would cause it harm, it must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it is unable to take that action and must choose a different action on its turn.

At higher levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can curse an additional humanoid creature for each slot level above 4th. Additionally, for each slot level above 4th, the zombies created by this spell gain additional hit points equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.