Can the animate dead spell be cast on any dead creature?
My players killed a few saber-tooth tigers and the necromancer wanted to use animate dead on them. Also on an ogre, on wolves and so on… How do I adjudicate this?
I'm really not so sure. Should I just say his undead is a "large tiger" and use the zombie in the 5e MM for statistics?
Best Answer
The description of the animate dead spell says:
So you only need to describe how humanoids transform into skeletons or zombies. The animate dead spell does not work on the remains of other types of creatures.