Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/Abilities and Powers/@comment-27089950-20151123195203/@comment-66.8.240.46-20160103102154

If we use D&D as an example, Ainz can control them... but it would be through the use of another spell or ability. D&D limits this to non-intelligent undead en-masse, so anything like a Death Knight or beyond would be at the individual level at best. Also in comparison, the Overlord versions of the Skeletal Dragons are kind of on the weakish side in comparison to the D&D archetype, but that could just be because Khajit was in direct control of them and just didn't know how to use all of thier abilities. (Example: No Breath? Why bother with it being a Dragon then? It's big, it has wings, it can't fly... but it can still cause enough of a disturbance to cover the area in a dust cloud which would reduce visibility in the area. At the same time, the Dragons are undead... they have undead senses, a dust cloud is not really an obstruction to them.)

If he had assumed control of the undead using D&D assumptions it would have immediately warned Khajit of his presence and possibly have killed Nfirea since Khajit was the one using the Jewel, but Nfirea was the one who was actually forced to cast the 7th Tier spell that summoned all the undead. (Khajit would know that the Jewel lost contact with the controlled undead if this was D&D. But in Overlord this is already a stretch. He should have been aware of Ainz slaughtering the crowd of undead at an unusually high rate of speed, but was not. In Nfirea's case... Ainz usurping control of the undead would have backfired the spell back at him, since he was mind-controlled and helpless at the time he would have taken the backfire straight up with no defenses.)