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I would suggest not including typical class worshipers in describing the gods. I always found that unnecessary and took me a bit out of the in character flavor description of the gods as well as being kind of limiting. It will be obvious that Mystra the god of magic is a good fit for wizards for...

In my Freeport campaign it was set in my homebrew mashup campaign with multiple pantheons including the FR gods as the "New Gods" pantheon from the main continent. Here is my document I made for the face to face group, I listed only a select number that are more commonly known in the...

Astonishing Adventures - NetherWar 0: Master of Earth Mutants & Masterminds 3e Cayrne, More Powerful Creation, Intelligent Agent: Cayrne and Slymme were two childhood friends of Kada’vrus who were felled in Naroth’s latest outbreak of the Gray Plague, and the young sorceress preserved her...

I played a bunch of various palladium games in the 80s and 90s. Palladium fantasy 1e is very much a variant AD&D with the parrying, dodge part being the biggest difference in my view in that it adds in an extra back and forth step in resolving combat attacks so that slows down AD&D's generally...

Like high-powered High Fantasy but don't like D&D mechanics? Want a less eurocentric base setting? Like World of Darkness tone and mechanics? Check out Exalted originally 1e and 2e by White Wolf but now the current third edition from Onyx Path. White Wolf's high fantasy game using the World of...

Astonishing Adventures Assembled! Mutants & Masterminds 3e Vampire: ? Zombie: Possible Replacements: The Green Man is giving athletes superpowered steroids and trying to transform the people of Freedom City into zombies. Madame Zero (Freedom City) could be an interesting candidate, experimenting...

Do you like AD&D but wish it had an active defense? Want an actual skill system to check against and not the more feat-like non-weapon proficiency system? Do you feel alignment should have more specifically designed codes? Do you want more core monstrous race options with race possibly having...

All Time, No Space Mutants & Masterminds 3e Tztizimitl, Terrifying Skeletal Titan, Giant: ?

The Darkest Hour Fantasy Craft Grave Wurm, The Harbinger of the Dead, Bloated White Worm, Creation of Ancient Evil Forces Made Flesh, Monstrous Thing, Slave, Disgusting and Bloated White Worm the Size of a Horse-Drawn Wagon, Great White Worm, Immense Scavenging Beast: The Grave Wurm exists to...

Like hp but not advancing hp by level? Dislike classes? Want advancement to be tied to usage in game? Want an active defense? BRP Basic Roleplaying from Chaosium. Various flavors of Runequest, Elric!/Stormbringer, Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, generic, etc. Hp are based on stats and do not...

Don't like hp, level advancement, and classes? Try Mutants and Masterminds from Green Ronin. Normally for comic book style superheroes but has genre books like Warriors & Warlocks to emulate stuff like the old Conan comic books. Instead of hit points it has a death save when injured and a...

I have used a bunch of non-D&D lore/inspiration in my D&D games over the years, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, WH40K, Ars Magica, Mage the Ascension, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Paranoia, Mad Max, Shadowrun, Kult, Godzilla, Star Wars, Changeling the Lost, Indiana Jones, etc.

Crypts & Creatures Shaleria Campaign Setting Crypts & Creatures Undead, Dead: ? Undead Servant: ? Undead Slave: The Story most popularly accepted is that the King of Ackerloi was betrayed by his closest friend and court mage who, using the necromantic arts, turned the king and his court into...

I just bought a couple Shadow of the Weird Wizard books (on sale now in the Christmas in July sale) to check out as a possible alt D&D system. I love the flavor of the Shadow of the Demon Lord books that I have bought but I am more into D&D's heroic fantasy game theme model (even if it is heroic...

I love 2e and 3e Ravenloft and ran a couple campaigns in the setting. The 3.0 campaign setting book is fantastic, it is player oriented including a gazetteer of the core and islands that reveals no spoilers on stuff like even who the dark lords are (sometimes they are the political ruler...

Contagion Second Edition Contagion 2e Undead, Undead Being, Undead Creature, Undead Hellspawn: Demons attempting to grant true immortality conjured different forms of the undead. Given their control over the energies of death itself, the Chammadi soon discovered that with proper application of...

H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Call of Cthulhu d20 Resurrected Dead, Resurrected Undead, Resurrected Corpse: The Gold Ferronniere Fashioned in ancient Hyperborea, this magical device has the power of resurrecting the dead. The resurrected dead are only partially alive. They do not breathe, need food...

H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Call of Cthulhu d20 Undead, Undead Thing: ? Goody Fowler, Ghost, Long-Dead Witch, Ghostly Hag, Murderous Wraith: ? Old Keziah, Ghost: ? Ghost, Apparition: ? Vampire: ? Adam Checkley, Zombie, Horrible Undead Cannibal Child, Undead Child, Shambling Vacant-Eyed Thing...

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BESM d20 Revised Edition BESM d20 Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Creature: ? Undead Villain: ? Ghost, Terror, Supernatural Spirit, Scary Entity: ? Ghost Servant: ? Japanese Ghost, Yurei: ? Traditional Japanese Ghost: ? Vampire: It might be similar to myths behind the vampire legend — the...