Especially if they are bear zombies! With their bear necessities in top condition. Given though that they are zombies,they manage them just barely.
D&D 5E Undead in 5th Edition
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Especially if they are bear zombies! With their bear necessities in top condition. Given though that they are zombies,they manage them just barely.
Sorry for my unbearable puns...
YourSwordIsMine
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Undead Fortitude makes Zombies really scary for a group for low level characters.
We fought 8 (in two groups of 4) in this past Fridays game. We lost our hireling Fighter in the fight with the first group of 4, and my cleric went down to 0hp. Luckily the rest of the party were able to kill the others before my cleric became Zombie Poo. If it wasn't for well placed flasks of oil, Fire Bolt cantrip from the Sorcerer, and everyone playing a fighting withdrawal; it could have gone pretty badly. Luckily the group decided to pull back and not open the final room (which contained the other 4 Zombies) so we could do a Long rest, the game could have easily ended in a TPK. Once we knew how to fight them, the second group was easier to take out. Still, we had to play it smart and use our brains. An all out fight, or had we been surrounded by them with no way to withdraw and the night would have ended badly. It was awesome! It's nice to be afraid of monsters again.
Was probably the best game of D&D I've played in quite some time. I'm really enjoying 5e!
We fought 8 (in two groups of 4) in this past Fridays game. We lost our hireling Fighter in the fight with the first group of 4, and my cleric went down to 0hp. Luckily the rest of the party were able to kill the others before my cleric became Zombie Poo. If it wasn't for well placed flasks of oil, Fire Bolt cantrip from the Sorcerer, and everyone playing a fighting withdrawal; it could have gone pretty badly. Luckily the group decided to pull back and not open the final room (which contained the other 4 Zombies) so we could do a Long rest, the game could have easily ended in a TPK. Once we knew how to fight them, the second group was easier to take out. Still, we had to play it smart and use our brains. An all out fight, or had we been surrounded by them with no way to withdraw and the night would have ended badly. It was awesome! It's nice to be afraid of monsters again.
Was probably the best game of D&D I've played in quite some time. I'm really enjoying 5e!
Mercule
Adventurer
Indeed. It can also be very swingy. My group fought a group of 8 zombies in each of two, successive sessions. The first time, they killed one in over a minute of combat -- the zombies just kept rolling insanely well to not die. In the second, only one zombie saved even once, which made for a very short fight.
I didn't really mind; the PCs have encountered zombies on a number of occasions and are appropriately disturbed by them, so they got a nice warm fuzzy from sailing through one combat.
Pascal Simard
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It took my group 15 rounds to get through the last of the 3 zombies. One of them nearly died in the process, and the Paladin did not have any spell slots remaining for Smite Evil, so the zombies wrecked the group. I wonder if the paladin's player learned the lesson of not eating all their spell slots in the first fight
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Fleetwood C. DeVille
Explorer
Yes, anyone coming from older systems needs to make sure of each undead's specific resistances and immunities.
Having vampires susceptible to disease and ghosts that can be stunned takes some getting used to.
Having vampires susceptible to disease and ghosts that can be stunned takes some getting used to.
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