Min/Max Boards

Vast Crypt
Requirement: Must be able to create undead creatures with a Spell/SLA, or be able to Rebuke Undead, or be able to Create Spawn
Benefit: You dramatically improve your ability to control the undead.

When using Animate Dead or Rebuke Undead or your Create Spawn ability the number of undead you can control is based on the higher of your Hit Dice or your CR. A vampire with a CR of 15 and a level of 12 would thus control 30 vampire subordinates with its Create spawn ability instead of the usual 24; 2 subordinates per the vampire’s 15 CR instead of the usual 2 subordinates per the vampire’s 12 Hit Dice.

Should you possess more than one means of controlling undead you may combine all of your control pools; the methods you use to control any particular undead under your command remains unchanged.

Vast Crypt may be taken multiple times. Each time Vast Crypt is taken after the first you increase your total undead control pool by your Charisma Score; every 24 hours the improvement from this feat adjusts to reflect your current Charisma score.

Calling Coffins
Requirement: Rebuke Undead
Benefit: Your undead servants may be interred for future use.

After trapping an undead in a coffin anointed with expensive reagents worth at least (Undead CR * 100 GP) you may call it to your side. By expending a use of your Rebuke Undead ability as a Fullround you may Call this coffin, and the undead within it, to a square adjacent to you; the undead you Call immediately takes action on the turn you call it, and then acts on your initiative count thereafter. As a Called creature the undead is a particular individual that has been transported to your side, not a facsimile summoned with Conjuration magic. Returning the undead to its original location requires you spend another Fullround Action while that undead is trapped within the same coffin to banish that undead and coffin back from whence they came; this does not expend another use of your Rebuke Undead ability.

Should the anointed Coffin be destroyed the undead remains at your side and cannot be banished back to the coffin’s point of origin, but it is otherwise unaffected. Should the undead be destroyed then the Coffin may be used to store a new undead under your control, assuming the undead is of an appropriate CR for that Coffin.

Coffins used for this feat carry a faint aura of Necromancy and Calling subschool Conjuration magic, but are otherwise unchanged. Each Coffin used for this feat may only contain one undead creature at a time; should you try to Call a Coffin occupied by multiple creatures, or a Coffin occupied by a creature that is not undead, then the attempt fails and the Rebuke ability is expended fruitlessly. An individual Coffin may be improved by anointing it with additional expensive reagents such that the total value of reagents used upon it reaches or exceeds the value needed to call a stronger undead.

Crypt Keeper
Requirement: Must be able to create undead creatures with a Spell/SLA, or able to Create Spawn
Benefit: After collecting many specimens you have learned to create rare undead creatures

After trapping an undead creature in a Sarcophagus anointed with special reagents worth at least (Undead CR^2 * 100 GP) you may create more of that creature with your spells, SLA, or Create Spawn ability. Corporeal Undead with a CR no greater than 10 may be created with “Create Undead”, while any undead of up to 20 CR may be created with “Greater Create Undead”. Your Caster Level must exceed the CR of the undead you attempt to create or that attempt fails.

If you can Create Spawn then you add the new option to the list of possible Spawn you can create. Your HD, or CR, must be at least twice the CR of the undead you attempt to create or that attempt fails.

The Sarcophagus used for this feat carries a strong aura of Necromancy magic, but is otherwise unchanged. Each Sarcophagus used for this feat may only contain one undead creature at a time. An individual Sarcophagus may be improved by anointing it with additional expensive reagents such that the total value of reagents used upon its reaches or exceeds the value needed to spawn more powerful undead.

Barrels

Barrel	Gallon Capacity	Dry Capacity	Cost
Quarter Cask	10 Gal	80 lb	5 SP
Rundlet Cask	20 Gal	160 lb	1 GP
Barrel	40 Gal	320 lb	2 GP
Hogshead	80 Gal	640 lb	4 GP
Puncheon	120 Gal	960 lb	6 GP
Butt Cask	150 Gal	1200 lb	7.5 GP
Drum Cask	180 Gal	1440 lb	9 GP
Gorda Cask	200 Gal	1600 lb	10 GP
Tun Cask	250 Gal	2000 lb	12.5 GP
Tank Cask	400 Gal	3200 lb	20 GP
Storage Tank	1000 Gal	8000 lb	50 GP

Coffin: A common wooden coffin typically uses the same statistics of a barrel that can contain that corpse or undead’s weight in alcohol; complete human zombies would typically fit in a coffin based on a Barrel, while a Human skeleton would easily fit within a Quarter-Cask. Coffins cost 2 times as much as the barrel they are based upon.

Sarcophagus: an ornate and carefully crafted casket typically uses the same statistics of a barrel that can contain that corpse or undead’s weight in alcohol; complete human zombies would typically fit in a Sarcophagus based on a Barrel, while a Human skeleton would easily fit within a Quarter-Cask. Sarcophagi are often made from stone, metal, or rare woods cost 50 times as much as the barrel they are based upon.