D&D 5E Request for clarification: Undead Fortitude

[overgeeked]

You could make that work if you wanted to. Just limit their Undead Fortitude ability to only work once per round. Making it a reaction would accomplish that pretty cleanly.

Mostly. But then they'd have to choose between making an opportunity attack and surviving.

 

[Charlaquin]

Mostly. But then they'd have to choose between making an opportunity attack and surviving.

Right. That’d be something you would have to consider if you made it a reaction.

 

[Ancalagon]

in a game I ran the PCs, instead of slogging it out, created an illusion of a bridge over a chasm and a flying PC "standing" on the bridge. half the zombies fell down the chasm

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

I love the Undead Fortitude. I remember a session where the party was fighting ghasts and zombies, and they pretty easily went through all of them - except one zombie who kept making his save. It was a comical thing that fit.

In my campaign, where I do have firearms, I have added that shotguns bypass the Undead Fortitude ability. It's in the spirit of Army of Darkness, I figure. Not a lot of guns or shotguns floating around in my world either

 

[aco175]

I switched a while ago to having zombies make a Con save (DC15) instead of (5+damage). I'm not sure if it averages out, but it makes things easy for me to deal with. We though about adding 2 to the DC each time, but that made it harder than worth.