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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2529334" data-attributes="member: 8447">From a conceptual point of view, the undead are the single most terrifying and loathsome group of monsters available.  Here are the dead, the dead!, walking around after they have supposedly died.  Some of them are only able to continue their existence by ripping lives or even souls from other living human beings.  We are taling about leeches with legs here, people!  Yuck!  Some of them aren't even fully material, thus they can enter your home even through a barricaded door, etc.  This is purely the stuff of nightmares.From a gaming point of view, they are so-so under 3e, or realistically D&D in general.  Why?  Clerical turn power.  With almost no effort, a cleric can turn upwards of a dozen of the buggers without even breaking a sweat and is able to do so multiple times each day.  Some of the undead simply disintegrate under this power!  Makes 'em pretty much laughable.When I switched over to AU rather than standard D&D the undead became evil, vile, loathsome, and scary all over again, simply because there were no clerics.  Now the undead are creatures that refuse to acknowledge the end of their own mortal existence and prey upon the living in some horrible parody of life.Just like they should be  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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