Animate Ghoul

2-level Necromancy

Casting Time: 1 action

Range/Area: Touch

Components: Verbal, Somatic, Material

Materials: a piece of rotting flesh and an onyx gemstone worth 100 gp

Duration: Instant

Damage/Effect: Summoning

You raise one Medium or Small humanoid corpse as a ghoul under your control. Any class levels or abilities the creature had in life are gone, replaced by the standard Ghoul stat block.

At higher levels: When you cast this spell using a 3rd-level spell slot, it can be used on the corpse of a Large humanoid to create a Large ghoul. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, this spell creates a Ghast, but the material component changes to an onyx gemstone worth at least 200 gp.

Available for: Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard