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Movie Zombies...Not Really Zombies?
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<blockquote data-quote="Xombie Master" data-source="post: 2641811" data-attributes="member: 36688"><p><strong>Zombie 101</strong></p><p></p><p>Ok, since I love me some zombies, I'll explain that just this once DnD has got it backwards a bit, and a bit more right than the movies at the same time.</p><p></p><p>While the ghoul and the zombie are related the basic differences are this. Ghouls are not cannibalistic. They eat long dead corpses. They are known to inhabit graveyards and eat the those buried there. Zombies, in non movie sense, are not flesh eaters at all. The idea of flesh eating undead was originally associated with the word Vampires (in it's many spellings). Movie zombies, and flesh eating dead are actually versions of the Vampire myths. Zombies are created by a process that makes them mindless slaves much like voodoo, exactly like necromancy creates zombies in DnD.</p><p></p><p>So to sum up:</p><p></p><p><u>Ghouls</u> - Corpse eating creatures known to haunt graveyards, only attack the living if their homes are in peril. Also in myth ghouls aren't always "undead" many times they are supposed to be able to breed like humans.</p><p></p><p><u>Zombie </u> - Mindless voodoo created slaves. <strong>DnD got this one right!</strong></p><p></p><p><u>Vampires</u> - Flesh eating undead that hunt the living. The come in many styles such as the traditional vampire, the "Movie Zombie", and a wide variety of other mythical creatures.</p><p></p><p>Final Thought:</p><p>No zombie/ghoul/vampire idea is either right or wrong, mostly because it's a myth, but also because throughout history the tales involving these and similar creatures always very from town to town, city to city, culture to culture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xombie Master, post: 2641811, member: 36688"] [b]Zombie 101[/b] Ok, since I love me some zombies, I'll explain that just this once DnD has got it backwards a bit, and a bit more right than the movies at the same time. While the ghoul and the zombie are related the basic differences are this. Ghouls are not cannibalistic. They eat long dead corpses. They are known to inhabit graveyards and eat the those buried there. Zombies, in non movie sense, are not flesh eaters at all. The idea of flesh eating undead was originally associated with the word Vampires (in it's many spellings). Movie zombies, and flesh eating dead are actually versions of the Vampire myths. Zombies are created by a process that makes them mindless slaves much like voodoo, exactly like necromancy creates zombies in DnD. So to sum up: [U]Ghouls[/U] - Corpse eating creatures known to haunt graveyards, only attack the living if their homes are in peril. Also in myth ghouls aren't always "undead" many times they are supposed to be able to breed like humans. [U]Zombie [/U] - Mindless voodoo created slaves. [B]DnD got this one right![/B] [U]Vampires[/U] - Flesh eating undead that hunt the living. The come in many styles such as the traditional vampire, the "Movie Zombie", and a wide variety of other mythical creatures. Final Thought: No zombie/ghoul/vampire idea is either right or wrong, mostly because it's a myth, but also because throughout history the tales involving these and similar creatures always very from town to town, city to city, culture to culture. [/QUOTE]
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