Converting monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[GrayLinnorm]

I'd rather see this as a specific creature. One of the things I don't like about making skeletons and zombies templates is that a zombie created from a 1st level commoner is the same as one created from a 100th level wizard.

 

[demiurge1138]

My vote is not-template. It seems pretty specific, as freyar argued.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

The majority has spoken--a template it is not.

So...take a Medium humanoid zombie, boost it to 4 HD and make other modification?

How does regeneration work with undead (in fact, can it?) since they are immune to nonlethal damage?

 

[GrayLinnorm]

According to the Monster Manual, only creatures with a Constitution score can regenerate. We could give it fast healing, though.

 

[demiurge1138]

Really, really high fast healing, with elemental vulnerabilities.

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

That sounds like a reasonable solution.

 

[freyar]

Fast healing 15 that cannot affect damage due to fire, acid, force, or holy water?

 

[Shade]

Fast healing isn't generally limited, so maybe fast healing 15 and vulnerability (+50% damage) to acid, fire, and force effects. We can list the special vulnerability to holy water separately.

 

[freyar]

Mmm, ok, if we're using standard fast healing, I'd say cut it to fast healing 10. Holy water usually does 2d4 pts of damage to undead. Let's make these 50% more vulnerable to that too.

 

[Shade]

I'm agreeable to that. Any objections?