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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dross" data-source="post: 5127537" data-attributes="member: 33802">Several ways I'd do this:Having a tell tale on the undead, like your suggested wristband is a must. Add others as need be, heraldric symbol, arcane mark, plant/dirt. And then there is the simple Track<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Survival/track the undead back to the site</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Know Religion for undead likely to be in graveyards and battlefield, to create undead you need certain things and room to perform you raising uninterupted.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know: Local for specific people being buried at special sites.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Gather Info for the locals to tell the party about the graveyard/battlefield and who was buried where</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know history for a battle fought here and someone of note died</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know History for a person of note plus retainers who died and were buried here at a specific site</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know Nobility & Royalty to know the heraldric symbol of the noble and his retainers found on the clothes of the zombies</li> </ul>  (these may be more of the "hint" variety)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> know nature: Have the zombies and skelos covered in dirt and plants that typically come from graveyards or a certain site.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Heal checks reveal the fingers have dirt as if the undead have been digging</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know Arcana for a mage's arcane symbol (could have been an acolyte that died)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Know geography maybe know that people in this area tend to have crypts in certain places (next to a stream or pond or always to the west of town etc) depending on who was buried.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> craft armour or weapons (if the undead have any) may show the items to be burial armour or weapons</li> </ul>Have the locals complain that someone's crypt seems to have been disturbed.have an INT check to notice that the undead all came from a certain direction, like westIf there is a body of water on the right direction make some of the undead wet (especially for a monk or touch spell, or fire spell and steam)An average to tough 10-15 DC of the appropriate skill. I'd tend towards  survival being easier than knowledge (since minor nobles etc would not be necessarily well know and the undead would leave semi-obvious tracks), but gather info would work better for a noble. I also allow off the cuff synergy bonuses for these types of things as this allows many clues to build a picture.While never a guarantee a 5th level PC may have skill bonus of approx 8-14a ranger / survival, wizard / know arcana, cleric / know religion, druid /know natureHistory, geography, nobility and royalty, craft/profession may not be taken at all.</blockquote>

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