Talan Va'lash - 9/12/2005 7:09 AMEdit: You can't just decide a spell does something different than it does because you want it to. Animate dead animates corpses. It animates their remains, it is not a temporary ressurection, and you can only animate a particular corpse once. Also, summons bring a creature of X type from somewhere in the planes for a limited duration. It is not the same creature every time no matter how much you want it to be. When a summon is killed outside of its plane it returns to its plane of origin and is unharmed.