New Names for Undead, Fiends, and Abberation for a Post-Apocalytpic game

[Set]

As it could be said that the critters were all 'burned' by the radioactive / whatever thing formed them, they could be called;

the Burned (Scorched, Charred, Broken, Tainted)
Twisted or Twists ('twisted' genetically, and also in appearance and behavior)
Warped
Freaks
Mutants

 

[FreeXenon]

Excellent! Good stuff, guys! That's what I'm looking for!
Thanks!
If you have more keep'em coming.

Good to see ya Tonguez!

 

[broghammerj]

I have always preferred undead to be called the risen.

 

[Twowolves]

I thought you meant given names for BBEG demon-types.

I like to use prescription drug names for those.

 

[jaerdaph]

I thought you meant given names for BBEG demon-types.

I like to use prescription drug names for those.

KNEEL BEFORE PAXIL!

 

[Kestrel]

Deaders, Muties, Rifters

 

[phindar]

I always like the term The Restless Dead.

In a Lovecraft influenced game, aberrations could go by names like Elder Spawn. Or, more collequially, by whatever they look like. "That's the problem with the Fell Swamp, all the dang squid-lizards."

 

[Nifft]

KNEEL BEFORE PAXIL!

"I sold my soul to Methylphenydate."
"For what?"
"Basically, a Concentration bonus."
"Fear the Swordsage of Ritalin!"

-- N

 

[Tetsubo]

I've always liked the name Walkers for zombies...

 

[tomBitonti]

Alternate descriptions

If I am following your question, this has to do with this text from the campaign background:

The raw amount of magic and divine power released in the battle on the prime had horrible consequences for the creatures and world as they knew it. Their combat tore rifts in the very fabric of space and time which allowed fiendish and abberrant creatures through from another place that mortals were never meant to know of.

That text "fiendish and abberant" is jarring, I think, because the terms have specific meaning in D20. In context, the terms don't work as simple descriptions.

I'd drop the terms for simpler ones, e.g., "twisted" or "horrific and vile".

Hmm, that description doesn't work for undead, which arise not from the far plane, but from the local dead. Could the rifts allow "spirits and foul energies, and creatures twisted unto madness" to enter into our realm? That provides room for undead to arise.

Thx!