First time trying to brew an original monster (as opposed to modding an existing monster) and want some feedback on it! Aiming for CR 6-7 here. This monster might be surrounded by some corpses when players discover it, as well as other mooks or other zombies that feed into its signature...
THanks for all of the advice, everyone! Just to answer a couple of things people said, both #1 and #2 weren't directly relevant to my party's current main quest (they are escorting a different NPC through the forest and came across the first two along the way - I'm definitely not trying to gate...
I'm a newish DM who's run a few oneshots but recently started his first campaign, and I ended up with a couple things that came up in my first session and my planning for my second that I wasn't exactly sure what information to give my players. My current players are a lot more investigative...