Undead Origins

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Microlite20 Spells (113)
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Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell.
Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell.

4th-Level Arcane Spells
Animate Dead: Creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies.

 

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APOCRYPHA A Complete Cleric’s Spell List for MICROLITE 20 (117)
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Un-Dead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell.
Un-Dead Zombie: Animate Dead spell.
Ghast: Create Undead spell.
Mummy: Create Undead spell.
Mohrg: Create Undead spell.
Shadow: Create Greater Undead spell.
Wraith: Create Greater Undead spell.
Spectre: Create Greater Undead spell.
Devourer: Create Greater Undead spell.

3RD-LEVEL CLERIC SPELLS
Animate Dead : Creates a number of un-dead skeletons and/or zombies with a HD total equal to twice your caster level. They obey all commands until destroyed.

6TH-LEVEL CLERIC SPELLS
Create Undead: Create ghasts (levels 12 to 14), mummies (15-17), or mohrgs (18+) from a touched corpse.

8TH-LEVEL CLERIC SPELLS
Create Greater Undead: Create shadows, wraiths, spectres, or devourers.

 

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Wayfarer M20 v.10.1 (185)
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Shadow: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Wight: ?
Zombie: ?

 

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MICROLITE 20 Fantasy Expansion: Character Creation Options (211)
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Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Ghost: ?
Revenant: ?
Vampire: ?
Vampire Tortured Soul: ?

 

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Microlite 20 Companion Rules (287)
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Undead: The Dead Walk Lesser Invocation.

Lesser Invocations
The Dead Walk: Create undead as the spell animate dead.

 

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Microlite 20 Revised (297)
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Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell.
Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell.

4th – Level Spells
Animate Dead
Range: touch
Effects: creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies. You can control only 4 HD worth of undead creatures per caster level.

 

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Microlite2020 Basic Monster List 1.0 (339)
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Shadow: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Wight: ?
Zombie: ?

 

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Microlite2020 Spell List 1.01 (341)
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Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell.
Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell.

4th-Level Arcane Spells
Animate Dead: Creates level X2 HD of undead skeletons or zombies.

 

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Microlite2020 Complete Old School Edition 1.01 (351)
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Undead: ?
Banshee: ?
Ghast: ?
Ghost: ?
Ghoul: Humans slain by ghouls rise again as ghouls in 24 hours.
Lich: ?
Mummy: ?
Penanggalan: ?
Skeleton, Undead Skeleton: Animate Dead spell.
Spectre: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a spectre] will rise 24 hours later as a spectre.
Vampire: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a vampire] will rise 24 hours later as a vampire under the control of their creator.
Wight: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a wight] will rise 24 hours later as a wight.
Wraith: Creatures reduced to 0 levels [by a wraith] will rise 24 hours later as a wraith.
Zombie, Undead Zombie: Animate Dead spell.

Arcane Spells 5th Level
Animate Dead: Create undead skeletons or zombies under control of caster from dead bodies, up to 1 hit die of undead per caster level. R: 60 feet. D: permanent.

Arcane (Wizardry) Spells 5th Level
Animate Dead: Create undead skeletons or zombies under control of caster from dead bodies, 1d6/caster level over 8th level. R: GM discretion. D: permanent.

 

[Kichwas]

Something I keep looking for and not seeing in tRPGs is Undead as seen from some MesoAmerican, Latin American, and Indigenous sources.

Most of these might still be horror, but there’s curious space for some creative lore here - maybe that skeleton hanging out with the kids is an ancestor visiting to help the villagers out.

Maybe once a year the family visits the graves of their ancestors and imagines talking to them for advice and in a magical enough world sometimes one of those ancestors comes out of their grave to answer and then comes home for a stay for a while.

Maybe the undead aren’t evil - but are here because some of the living are and that legendary singer from three centuries ago happens to be able to channel spirits in song and so is back to help remove a new tyrant.