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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6083284" data-attributes="member: 57383">So some kind of &quot;random undead attraction table&quot;? That could work.As for a Hit Dice cap, the original writeup suggests that'd be very high.Let's see.24 skeletons = 24 HD24 zombies = 48 HD18 ghouls = 36 HD3 wights and 3 ghasts = 24 HD24+48+36+24Total = 132 Hit Dice!And that's for each of the six minions, so the original Bloody Bones has 792 HD in its Undead Horde. No wonder it recommends the DM doesn't simply dogpile the party with the walking dead.Hmm, maybe we could use something like the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/prestigeClasses/thrallherd.htm" target="_blank">Thrallherd</a> and use a Leadership Feat like table instead?e.g. a basic Bone Tyrant could have up to X undead of CR 1/2 or 1/3, Y undead of CR 1, Z of CR 2 and so on up to CR 3 (the Challenge Rating of a Wight or Ghast).Also, what happens if there are no other Undead within 20 miles of wherever the Tyrant is posted? Perhaps we should allow it to create undead from unconsecrated corpses as well as attracting them?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6083284, member: 57383"] So some kind of "random undead attraction table"? That could work. As for a Hit Dice cap, the original writeup suggests that'd be very high. Let's see. 24 skeletons = 24 HD 24 zombies = 48 HD 18 ghouls = 36 HD 3 wights and 3 ghasts = 24 HD 24+48+36+24 Total = 132 Hit Dice! And that's [I]for each of the six minions[/I], so the original Bloody Bones has 792 HD in its Undead Horde. No wonder it recommends the DM doesn't simply dogpile the party with the walking dead. Hmm, maybe we could use something like the [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/prestigeClasses/thrallherd.htm"][B]Thrallherd[/B][/URL] and use a Leadership Feat like table instead? e.g. a basic Bone Tyrant could have up to X undead of CR 1/2 or 1/3, Y undead of CR 1, Z of CR 2 and so on up to CR 3 (the Challenge Rating of a Wight or Ghast). Also, what happens if there are no other Undead within 20 miles of wherever the Tyrant is posted? Perhaps we should allow it to create undead from unconsecrated corpses as well as attracting them? [/QUOTE]

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