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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8464309" data-attributes="member: 20323">I'm currently running an Egyptian-esque D&D campaign and two of my players are undead.Basically, I made it a feat that had to be taken at character creation. So either you played a variant human OR you rolled 3d6 in order for ability scores (which in my homebrew gives you a boon, one of which might be a bonus feat at character creation).Undead (feat) Prerequisite: Must be taken at character creation You were returned as undead through a ritual, gaining the following benefits:• You are immune to poison damage and the poisoned condition.• You don’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.• You have darkvision 60 feet.• Your type is undead, meaning most healing magic doesn't work on you and you can be affected by Turn Undead. Potions of healing, for example, don't work on you – but there is embalming fluid which acts as a baseline potion of healing. See the UNDEAD IMMUNITIES & SUSCEPTIBILITIES table.The immunities & susceptibilities is something I worked up for this particular campaign (attached as image file).It's been really interesting. We've had scenes where being undead worked amazingly in their favor (resisting a poison water trap) and also really hindered them (undead harmed in a particular sanctified area), and some crazy Turn Undead shenanigans (I ruled the cleric is exempt from their own Turn Undead). It introduces not only a really interesting mechanical twist but also a narrative one – we have an undead PC who lost everything and is suffering amnesia in a ghul-bargain with his heart in a canopic jar, and another who is tied to aristocracy with extensive surviving family and the result of "faulty" mummifcation and a poison plot. Good times.</blockquote>

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