The Revenant DDI exclusive race

[Scribble]

Hmm, no thanks. I already know an undead race would come across to my DM. He'd probably buy special miniatures for the occasion.

It's hard to roleplay when every shop spits in your face Well, anything beyond "I throttle the shopkeeper"

"Goddamn creatures of the night. They never learn. "

 

[Mournblade94]

How are they going to stop the smell of decay?

And creepy people give auras of discomfort... imagine the aura of a dead person?

 

[Cadfan]

For all we know the Revenant might just be a regular looking guy with a nasty backstory and no pulse.

 

[OchreJelly]

From the teaser picture, it looks like they appear mostly humanoid, perhaps a bit more gaunt. The exception being on the center female pic: part of her cheek appears to be missing.

What might be cool is an at will power to illusion yourself to appear as you did in life.

 

[Byronic]

"Goddamn creatures of the night. They never learn. "

More like "God damn Elves/Undead/Gnomes/Tieflings/Deva's etc" The only races humans like are Dwarves and Halflings. And they don't particularly like halflings much either. And Dwarves fight too much for their taste.

Picture the stereotypical Elven attitude towards humans. But then to most other races and you'll have 60% of all the NPCs

 

[Mournblade94]

From the teaser picture, it looks like they appear mostly humanoid, perhaps a bit more gaunt. The exception being on the center female pic: part of her cheek appears to be missing.

What might be cool is an at will power to illusion yourself to appear as you did in life.

Well VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE started the trend of playing emo undead and that was popular.

WOW has undead as a majour race, so it is not surprising that D&D would follow suit.

 

[Scribble]

More like "God damn Elves/Undead/Gnomes/Tieflings/Deva's etc" The only races humans like are Dwarves and Halflings. And they don't particularly like halflings much either. And Dwarves fight too much for their taste.

Picture the stereotypical Elven attitude towards humans. But then to most other races and you'll have 60% of all the NPCs

It's a line from The Crow.

 

[OchreJelly]

Anyone care to speculate on Revenant racial features?

I'm thinking it's gonna be an INT/CON race. One, aside from the not-yet PC Githyanki, it's an unfilled slot. Plus, I think it fits.

I'm also guessing it will have some built in necrotic resistance. Racial power? Probably some kind of defensive/self-heal ability.

I'd be curious to see if they are basing any of it off the old school Fiend Folio Revenant, particularly the gaze or strangle attacks.

"vengeful spirit risen to destroy killer, never uses weapons, strangles victim until killed, gaze vs killer save vs spell or paralyzed 2d4 rnds, regenerate 3 hp/rnd except fire, immune: acid & gas, permenant destruction by fire, cannot be raised, turned or effected by holy symbol/water, retains ability w/ min scores above"

 

[Remathilis]

I'd be curious to see if they are basing any of it off the old school Fiend Folio Revenant, particularly the gaze or strangle attacks.

Probably not, 4e has a habit of taking legacy names (archon, deva, eladrin) and attaching new stuff to them.

 

[Byronic]

It's a line from The Crow.

..oh. It's been a while since I've seen that movie. It was back in the ole days when people still used videotapes.