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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 1185445" data-attributes="member: 2480">An interesting analysis c_c> It's actually rather handy to be able to describe the Undead in a variety of ways, since it gives ideas as to how to use them. I recall from fantasy campaigns many years ago I divided the Undead into:  Animated Dead: the bodies of mortals given some animation through death magics. Like you I included the Mummy, Zombie and Skeleton.  'True' Undead: these are the classic undead, both corporeal and incorporeal, sustained by the energies from the realms of the dead. Examples include the Spectre and the Wraith.  Living Dead: these are creatures that seem to sustain themselves on the brink of death by devouring something from the living. In this group I put Vampires (of course!) and Ghouls. The Living Dead suffer from some sort of weakness if they do not feed (generally I didn't let them regain hit points any way except through feeding).  and then, from the pages of White Dwarf many years ago, there came the Semi-Dead, the Morbes, who oscillated either side of the line of death and undeath according to how recently they had fed from the living. They were a weird idea, and really inventive, since a village of Morbes might seem normal after scoffing a whole bandit group (how I used them once), only to become Undead a few days later... Nasty!</blockquote>