Special Conversion Thread: Moldvay's Undead

[Shade]

Suggested feat chains? This guy is loaded with feat slots.

 

[freyar]

He should be able to take Weapon Focus, Greater WF, Weapon Specialization, Greater WS. Too bad he's not smart enough for Combat Expertise until after you apply the template, or he could get the Whirlwind Attack chain. Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Improved Sunder could all or separately work. Or maybe the 2-weapon tree. Could even see archery feats, but that's a waste of that great Str.

Anyway, we need a vision for him. I definitely say go with the GWS tree, but that still leaves 10 feats!

 

[demiurge1138]

Greater weapon spec, fights with an orc double axe. So that way we can use TWF feats as well.

 

[Shade]

Unfortunately, Dex isn't high enough for TWF.

Back to the drawing board...

I also noticed that his Cha will be too poor to showcase several of the abilities (unholy toughness, profane bonus to AC), so lets reverse Wis and Cha to at least get a +1 bonus.

 

[demiurge1138]

Back to the drawing board for feats, or put some of his points into Dex? Remember, he's going to be a high-level NPC. We can give him some equipment, and that equipment can include gloves of Dex if we have to.

Edit: Or give the template a racial Dex bonus. It is CR + lots, after all...

 

[freyar]

Since he loses his Con anyway, why not swap that with Cha (starting before racial adjustments)? It's sort of a cheat, because what orc fighter would have Con 8, but we'd end up with Cha 16.

While we're at it, he gets a big Str bonus for being and orc and I'm assuming level bumps, so why not swap starting Str and Dex? Then you get Dex 15 for TWF and TWD. That's part of the chain. We might also consider some of the shooting feats, since his opponents are likely to want to stay at range.

 

[Shade]

While applying the feat, the ability modifiers did seem a bit underpowered.

How about Dex +4, Int +4, Wis +6, Cha +8? It has to be a sign of a lot of strength of personality and willpower to avoid annihilation, after all.

And swapping Dex for Str is fine, which makes sense assuming he was a two-weapon fighter in life.

 

[demiurge1138]

Those ability increases look good to me.

 

[Shade]

Updated. It's looking much better now.

Did we ever decide on an amount for fast healing?

 

[demiurge1138]

I thought 10, right?