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D&D 5E Zombies: Sink or Swim?

Do Zombies sink, walk, float or swim in water?


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iserith

Magic Wordsmith
If you want to torture spellcasters and anyone who uses a weapon unsuitable for underwater combat, the zombies sink.

Scenario: Villagers have recently dug a new well, only they tapped into a crypt flooded by ground water. Now a terrible curse has fallen upon the village that can only be cleansed by dealing with the shambling dead in the cold and dark water below.
 

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow
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2e Sea Zombie
On land sea zombies moved at a very slow, clumsy and shambling gait, but in water they were very fast swimmers. They could also sink and walk unimpeded by the water.
 


Mind of tempest

(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
Throw in 28 Days Later, World War Z, Resident Evil, The last of Us, Left 4 Dead and so on. Some zombies are still living creatures controlled by some other force, be that virus or priest. Others are on their way to becoming animated skeletons. Some are weirdly in-between depending on type.

I've toyed around with doing a zombie themed campaign or side-arc but if did there would definitely be different types. So it just depends, the types of zombie are quite varied.
add in left-for-dead style special variants for mini-bosses or just to make the combat more than just hoards.
 

Oofta

Legend
add in left-for-dead style special variants for mini-bosses or just to make the combat more than just hoards.
There's fun things like the zombie clot from Van Richten's and of course greater zombies. I may have thrown in some custom zombie boomers boomers now and then, of course things like giant zombies are a good stand-in for tanks.

Hmm, Halloween episode may have to come a bit early this year. :)
 

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