Undead Origins

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Cards Deck TWO
5e
Undead Monstrosity: ?
Undead, Undead Creature: ?

 

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Cards Deck THREE
5e
Binguai: ?
Bloody Bones: ?
Bog Corpse: If a creature in a coma caused by a bog corpse is placed in the sacred bog the corpse guarded, that creature becomes a bog corpse in 1d6 days.
Bone Reaper: ?
Cat Undead Feral: ?
Corpsespun: ?
Crawling Hand: ?
Draug: ?
Draug Captain: ?
Duppy: ?
Egui: ?
Egui, Ghost: ?
Ekimmu: ?
Fear Guard: Any living creature reduced to Wisdom 0 by a fear guard is slain and becomes a fear guard under the control of its killer in 1d6 rounds.
Gholle: ?
Ghoul: Any humanoid creature slain by the gholle rises as a ghoul within 1d6 hours.
Ghoul of Khemit: ?
Ghul: ?
Ghul, Undead Djinn: ?
Groaning Spirit: ?
Guardian Shade: ?
Hoar Spirit: ?
Hyaenodon Undead: ?
Lacedon: ?
Mian'shen, Masked Spirit: ?
Don'gui, Ice Wraith: ?
Murder Born: ?
Murder Crow: ?
Red Jester: ?
Greater Shadow: ?
Swarm of Undead Bats: ?
Swarm of Undead Hummingbirds: ?
Swarm of Undead Rats: ?
Shadow Wolf: ?
Aqueous Zombie: ?
Bramble Zombie: ?
Carcharodon Zombie: ?
Goblin Zombie: ?
Gug Zombie: ?
Juju Zombie: ?
Mummy Zombie: ?
Otyugh Zombie: ?
Poisonous Snake Zombie: ?
Sphinx Zombie: ?
Undead: ?
Shadow: If a non-evil humanoid dies from [a greater shadow's strength drain] attack, a shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 rounds later under the greater shadow’s command.
If a non-evil humanoid dies from [a shadow wolf's strength drain] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.
Skeletal Statue: Bone Cobbler's Animate Bones power.
Skeleton: ?
Zombie: A humanoid slain by [a duppy's incorporeal touch] attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the duppy’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
A victim slain in this manner [by a cerebral stalker's consume brain attack] reanimates in 1d4 rounds as a zombie.
Zombie, Newly Undead Friend: A victim slain in this manner [by a cerebral stalker's consume brain attack] reanimates in 1d4 rounds as a zombie. Typically, the cerebral stalker “tosses” them back up to the surface of the ground so their traveling companions can witness the reanimation and deal with their newly undead friend.

Animate Bones (1/day). A bone cobbler animates up to five skeletal statues within 30 feet of itself. These creatures use the stat block of skeletons, though their forms and structures do not need to resemble humanoids or anything remotely humanoid. The skeletal statues remain animated until destroyed, until the bone cobbler wills them back into statues, or for 24 hours.

 

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Instant Encounters Volume One (5e)
5e
Sword Wight: ?
Sword Wight, Wicked Depraved Creature, Undead Abomination, Warped Twisted Caricature: ?
Standard Wight: ?
Zombie: A humanoid slain by [a sword wight's life drain] attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the wight’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
Sword Wight, The Thing in the Barrow, The Monster Beneath the Hill, Horrible Creature: ?

 

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Instant Encounters Volume Three (5e)
5e
Brine Zombie: Brine zombies are the remnants of a ship’s crew that has perished at sea.
The spark of evil that brought them back from the ocean depths drives them to seek the living so they may join them in their watery graves.
A few years ago Silas Hawthgrow and his crew of smugglers off loaded a small fortune in illicit goods from the pirate ship Lost Fools. It was a dark moonless night and the crew struggled against an ebbing tide to bring their skiff in to their landing point in a hidden cove. They failed and ended up on the rocks. While awaiting the return of the tide, a sudden squall caught the skiff and drove it into a small sea cave. Silas and his crew died, but their sudden death committing in the course of committing a crime turned their corpses in to brine zombies.
Brine Zombie, Rotting Humanoid, Remnants of a Ship's Crew That Has Perished at Sea, Mindless Creature: ?
Silas Hawthgrow, Brine Zombie: A few years ago Silas Hawthgrow and his crew of smugglers off loaded a small fortune in illicit goods from the pirate ship Lost Fools. It was a dark moonless night and the crew struggled against an ebbing tide to bring their skiff in to their landing point in a hidden cove. They failed and ended up on the rocks. While awaiting the return of the tide, a sudden squall caught the skiff and drove it into a small sea cave. Silas and his crew died, but their sudden death committing in the course of committing a crime turned their corpses in to brine zombies.
Brine Zombie, Shambling Bloated Shape: ?

 

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Instant Encounters Volume Four (5e)
5e
Pyre Zombie: Pyre zombies are the sad, tortured remains of those who were killed just before being burned alive. When the soul departed, their bodies were taken over by some malignant spirit. The spirit fortified the bodies from destruction by the fire, and the undead forms escaped the pyre to wreak vengeance on the living.
Pyre Zombie, Ashen Form, Singed Corpse: ?
Pyre Zombie, Rotting Corpse, Sad Tortured Remains of One Who Was Killed Just Before Being Burned Alive, Undead Form: ?
Animated Creature: The electrical aura of the fogwarden can animate up to four dead creatures within 20 feet.
Zombie: ?
Skeletal Knight: Once bound to their master as a personal guard, a skeletal knight returns when called to defend its lord once again.
Skeletal Knight, Guardian: Millennia ago, the Hyperborean nobleman Allisus Athrusa ordered that a great tomb be crafted. He placed a portion of his vast fortune as well as six guardians into this tomb. These bodyguards, slaves in his service in life, were slain and their remains animated as skeletal knights. If this great tomb were ever to be destroyed, the guardians would awaken to slay all trespassers.

 

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Tome of Horrors 2020 Instant Encounters Volume Five (5e)
5e
Crypt Thing: Crypt things are undead creatures found guarding tombs, graves, crypts, and other such structures. They are created by spellcasters to guard such areas and they never leave their assigned area.
Crypt Thing, Skeletal Humanoid: ?

 

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Tome of Many Things (5e)
5e
Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Being: Creatures killed by a heavy water grenade rise as undead beings 1 hour after death unless steps are taken to prevent this.
Spirit of Death, Spirit of the Underworld: ?
Vile Undead Creature: ?
Grim Morigan the Fallen, Undead Human Paladin 5: Very little is known about the individual known as Grim Morigan the Fallen. It is believed they were once a Paladin who took an Oath of Vengeance, however, sometime later they broke that oath after a time of exile. An excerpt from a forgotten journal rumored to have been written by Morigan during his exile does shed some light on his motives: "I found death when I showed weakness in exile and indulged in self-pity instead of keeping my oaths ...
... my mind was restless. I returned from the black plain of Thanatos, the Abyss, the belly of death … sworn to a new oath to Orcus himself ... bringing all those to his kingdom who would get in my way from now on ...
... for centuries, I am chained to this oath. The demon prince will never acknowledge the debt as being paid off: I know that now...
... so ... Orcus must fall! Will fall! ... my patience will pay off in the end, instead. Only the right opportunity is missing... only so long! But sooner or later, this moment will present itself. When revealed: I will become the scythe of death, myself. I will become the grim reaper! This shall be my final oath ... "
Lich: After that horrific act, she fell deeper into depravity as she began to experiment on living creatures to find the secret to immortality. Decades, and hundreds of dead test subjects later, she succeeded in becoming a Lich.
Vampire: ?

 

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Tomes of Ancient Knowledge (5E)
5e
Undead: ?
Ghoul: ?
Aquatic Ghoul, Lacedon: ?
Ghast: ?

 

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Tomes of Dark Secrets (5E)
5e
Fossil Skeleton: A fossil skeleton is animated from the petrified remnant of a primitive and primordial creature, its ossific remains calcified into eternal stone.
These undead could be used as undead encounters by the GM, or at the GM’s option a spellcaster could use animate dead to bring one of these creatures to unlife rather than a typical skeleton or zombie. Such undead otherwise follow the normal rules for animate dead.
Mummified Zombie: A mummified zombie is a creature whose desiccated corpse has been both naturally and magically preserved and given unholy life. Possessed of great strength and durability, the bodies of mummified zombies are dry and dusty beneath their funerary wrappings (for zombies created in blasphemous rites for the dead) or the shrunken, leathery skin that clings to their bodies for those whose bodies were naturally preserved in sand, mud, or otherwise.
These undead could be used as undead encounters by the GM, or at the GM’s option a spellcaster could use animate dead to bring one of these creatures to unlife rather than a typical skeleton or zombie. Such undead otherwise follow the normal rules for animate dead.
Fossil Skeleton, Ancient Animated Dead, Variant Undead Creature: ?
Mummified Zombie, Ancient Animated Dead, Variant Undead Creature: ?
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Fleshy Undead: ?
Skeletal Undead: ?
Incorporeal Undead: ?
Sentient Undead Creature: ?
Undead That Is Immune to the Charmed Condition: ?
Undead That Was Not Humanoid in Life: ?
Undead That Was Considered Humanoid in Life: ?
Ghast: In addition, a spellcaster of any class wearing the Spellbones of the Devourer can prepare and cast create undead using a 5th-level spell slot; however, she can create only ghouls or ghasts with this spell.
Ghoul: In addition, a spellcaster of any class wearing the Spellbones of the Devourer can prepare and cast create undead using a 5th-level spell slot; however, she can create only ghouls or ghasts with this spell.
Ghoul, Fleshy Undead: ?
Typical Skeleton, Skeleton of Brittle Bone, Ordinary Skeleton: ?
Vampire: ?
Vampire, Fleshy Undead: ?
Wight, Fleshy Undead: ?
Zombie, Common Zombie, Typical Zombie: Necrophagic Spell feat.
Zombie, Fleshy Undead: ?

Necrophagic Spell
Your spells infuse the dead with a ghastly hunger for flesh.
Prerequisite: Able to cast animate dead or create undead
Benefit: When you cast a spell that deals damage, you take necrotic damage equal to the level of the spell. This infuses the spell with necromantic power, causing any humanoid killed by the spell to be temporarily reanimated as a common zombie. The zombies reanimate 1d4 rounds after death, and they remain animated for a number of rounds equal to the level of the spell that slew them. These zombies are uncontrolled and attack the nearest creature, living or undead, though they ignore the caster and non-living creatures or creatures that lack a body made of flesh and/or bone, such as plants and oozes. If targets are equidistant, determine randomly which it chooses.

 

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Tooth and Nail: Creatures of Hereva (5e)
5e
Oversized-Posh-Zombie-Canary: They say all legends have a small and humble origin. But the Oversized-Posh-Zombie-Canary, had the most extravagant, colorful, flashy, grandiose and massive of the humble beginnings that have ever been.
As a result of the experimental magic of the witches, the creation of the Oversized-Posh-Zombie-Canary was witnessed by hundreds of people, thousands of citizens suffered its fury and the whole world now fears its return.
Undead: ?