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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7026218" data-attributes="member: 2209">Dragon 138Dragon 1381eBloody Bones: Bloody bones are the undead, animated corpses of evil criminals cursed to continue their horrid trade long after they should have died.Skleros: Skleros are skeletons made from the corpses of highly trained warriors (fighters of 4th level or better) that still magically retain some of their past fighting skills.Dry Bones: ?Gem Eyes: Gem eyes are special undead creatures created by powerful magic-users. Each skeleton has a pair of glowing gems for eyes, and each pair of gems holds one magical spell. The power of the eyes is linked to the “unlife” of the creature. Hence, the magical power leaves the gems when the skeleton is reduced to zero or less hit points.The magic-users who create gem eyes take special care to make the skeletal life force stronger than normal (hence the 4 + 2 hit dice). The magic-user must be at least 11th level. Instead of animating 11 skeletons with an animate dead spell, the magic-user animates one gem-eyes skeleton with more hit dice. Theoretically, any magical spell could be put into the eyes (using enchant an item or permanency), but two factors limit the gems. Magical power. The spells used in the gems are normally fourth level or lower; and spells tied to the “natural” power of the gem types are easier to make permanent.Shock Bones: Shock bones are skeletons animated by both magic and electricity.Galley Beggar: ?Walking Dead: Walking dead are undead animated corpses that keep attacking until completely destroyed.Hungry Dead: The hungry dead are undead corpses that return from the grave to feed off the living.The return of the hungry dead is usually triggered by an evil magic-user or cleric. The animating force is always concentrated in one single area of the body.Colossus: The evil Nathaire created a terrifying giant undead creature.Nathaire was a powerful alchemist, astrologer, and necromancer. Working with his 10 students, he robbed a graveyard of all its corpses. In a kind of magical assembly-line, the corpses were stripped of all clothing, then the flesh and bones were separated into separate vats and rendered down to a pliable mass. All the bones were then reshaped and rehardened to form a huge skeleton. Finally, the skeleton was once again fleshed out. The separate ingredients were thus used to create a giant zombie.A colossus is essentially a giant zombie magically made from many corpses.Colossus Lesser: A colossus is essentially a giant zombie magically made from many corpses. A lesser colossus is about 11' tall (between the size of a hill giant and a stone giant).Colossus Greater: A colossus is essentially a giant zombie magically made from many corpses. A greater colossus is an amazing 33' tall (larger than the largest titan).Le Grande Zombi: It has been speculated that Le Grand Zombi is actually a kind of lich, the spirit of an extremely powerful magic-user/cleric who specialized in necromancy (magic dealing with the dead).Ghula: ?Baka: The corpse which forms a baka belonged to a member of a secret magical society that practices ritual cannibalism. The cannibalism is believed to give the eaters magical powers and is a form of necromancy.While a baka has to be animated like a zombie, the baka is no mindless slave. In the realms of death, the dead person has merged with certain evil spirits and now has their powers.Baka are the animated undead corpses of members of a secret cannibalistic society.Spirit Ghoul: A spirit-ghoul is a type of ghoul which is actually some poor unfortunate victim possessed by an evil entity. The entity warps the physical appearance of the person so that the individual looks like a ghoul.Black Annis: ?Wendigo: These wendigos might be people who entered into a pact with certain evil spirits that lurk in the forest and help these people kill their victims. Perhaps these wendigos were humans gazed upon the mythical being Wendigo, as in the Indian myths.Callicantzari: ?Great Callicantzaros: ?Undead: Some DMs rule that only humans become undead, but it is more common to include all the PC races and their NPC subraces. Animals and monsters never become undead unless their remains are magically animated as skeletons or zombies. Such creatures simply die when slain by undead.Skeleton: In the AD&D game, skeletons are magically animated by clerics or magic-users. The corpse used for the animate dead spell has been buried for so long that only bones remain (or perhaps all flesh is destroyed in the process of animation, leaving only bones).Zombie: Zombies are dead bodies brought back to a semblance of life by magic.Zombies are created by bokors, evil voodoo sorcerers. A bokor gains control of the gros-bon-ange of a dying person by sucking out the soul magically, trapping it in a magic vessel, or substituting the soul of an insect or small animal for the human soul. At midnight on the day of burial, the bokor goes with his assistants to the grave, opens it, and calls the victim's name. Because the bokor holds his soul, the dead person must lift his head and answer. As he does so, the bokor passes the bottle containing the gros-bon-ange under the victim's nose for a single brief instant. The dead person is then reanimated.Ghoul: In some myths, ghouls return from the dead and drink blood besides eating flesh.</blockquote>

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