Animate Dead Spell Question (Zombie's slowly die)

[Aristillion]

I just obtained an item that let's me cast the animate dead spell at level 3. However when I cast it on a body and pick Zombie, the zombie is listed as "newborn" and looses 1 point of health each turn due to something called "Crawling Gnaw". Is there a way to prevent or stop the loss of health? It doesn't happen if I use the spell and create a skeleton.

The body wasn't previously undead and didn't have the disease when they died in combat. The character casting the spell is a bard if that makes a difference.

[Toblm]

Gnome Necromancer here. Though I dont like zombies.
This doesnt sound like the behavior I saw from spell summoned zombies about 3 days ago, the last time I used one.

However it does sound like appropriate behavior for newborn zombies, which spawn when your zombies makes a killing strike on something living.

[Aristillion]

Thanks. I might respect to see if the regular spell acts differently than the one on the item.

[Gracey Face]

The health drain happens to the additional zombies that are raised when something your original summoned zombie hit dies. The health drain is so that you don't get out of hand with an army of 10,000 zombies.

[Insanity Factor]

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

The health drain happens to the additional zombies that are raised when something your original summoned zombie hit dies. The health drain is so that you don't get out of hand with an army of 10,000 zombies.

That would lead to some awesome Army of Darkness / Evil Dead 2'esque shenanigans tho! But oh god, the combat turns would take forever...

[MrMouta]

Almost one year later and I have the same bug going on

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by MrMouta:

Almost one year later and I have the same bug going on

It's not a bug.

[VP lystic]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by MrMouta:

Almost one year later and I have the same bug going on

It's not a bug.

it is though, the circlet that balthazar drops has the spell on it and it spawns decaying zombies instead of a normal one, which is what the post was referring to

[RancidHamwallet]

So this is a bug with the Circlet and there's no way to fix it??