"Contagious" Zombies?
- Thread starter Kryndal Levik
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Kryndal Levik
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Anyone have any feedback on the creature?
The Forsaken One
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Blightspawned template from Unapprochable East, pure ownage and sooo cool 
Kryndal Levik
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Thanks for the input guys- anyone have any input on the zombie I posted, though?
(BTW- Tonguez, I didn't see the template on the WotC site- do you have a link? Didn't come up on a Google domain search, either...)
(BTW- Tonguez, I didn't see the template on the WotC site- do you have a link? Didn't come up on a Google domain search, either...)
Gez
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Plague Carrier (Template) (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=fr/pg20011219b)
Look at that thread. And at the Creature Locator.
Look at that thread. And at the Creature Locator.
Iron_Chef
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There was a 2e conversion of the Romero/Resident Evil zombie called "The Hungry Dead" in Dragon... #140, I think was the number (Halloween issue with a Jess Easley cover depicting a grinning armored skeleton crashing through a door with his axe).
That was a great article with all kinds of evil undead from myth and legend. Spirit Ghoul (a possession by a ghoulish spirit), Bloody Bones, etc., were all in there. Can't find my copy, but great article.
Anyway, the Hungry Dead in Dragon were zombies whose bite turned you into one and the only way to kill them was to target their brain (although there were options for other "must hit" locations, such as the heart, for more voodoo like undead). That's what is missing from your versions of the "plague zombie", the fact that they ignore all damage except to their brain/spine, or that which cripples/removes a limb. This is where hit location becomes paramount and is something D&D doesn't do very well. But IMO it's essenial to recapture the flavor the Dead films and Resident Evil video games. One idea is to allow critical hits on plague zombies, indicating that the brain has been injured. 2e had a mechanic for this in the Dragon article mentioned above (under "Hungry Dead").
That was a great article with all kinds of evil undead from myth and legend. Spirit Ghoul (a possession by a ghoulish spirit), Bloody Bones, etc., were all in there. Can't find my copy, but great article.
Anyway, the Hungry Dead in Dragon were zombies whose bite turned you into one and the only way to kill them was to target their brain (although there were options for other "must hit" locations, such as the heart, for more voodoo like undead). That's what is missing from your versions of the "plague zombie", the fact that they ignore all damage except to their brain/spine, or that which cripples/removes a limb. This is where hit location becomes paramount and is something D&D doesn't do very well. But IMO it's essenial to recapture the flavor the Dead films and Resident Evil video games. One idea is to allow critical hits on plague zombies, indicating that the brain has been injured. 2e had a mechanic for this in the Dragon article mentioned above (under "Hungry Dead").
Iron_Chef
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Here's a link to a 3e zombie adventure called "The Hungry Dead" you might find interesting:
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cach...ntest/Hungry.doc+"hungry+dead"&hl=en&ie=UTF-8[/url]
SPOILER:
The zombies in this one are of the normal variety but have been commanded by an evil cleric to "eat anything that moves" and have had their teeth coated with wyvern venom to expedite the process of bringing down their victims! The victims are then reanimated by the cleric and sent forth without anyone seeing this. This allows you to create a "Living Dead" movie type scenario within the official rules. Still, you could easily tweak it to allow for your "plague zombies" instead.
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cach...ntest/Hungry.doc+"hungry+dead"&hl=en&ie=UTF-8[/url]
SPOILER:
The zombies in this one are of the normal variety but have been commanded by an evil cleric to "eat anything that moves" and have had their teeth coated with wyvern venom to expedite the process of bringing down their victims! The victims are then reanimated by the cleric and sent forth without anyone seeing this. This allows you to create a "Living Dead" movie type scenario within the official rules. Still, you could easily tweak it to allow for your "plague zombies" instead.
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