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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9070889" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/372678/Lasers--Liches-Players-Mix?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Lasers & Liches: Players Mix</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Restless:</strong> Restless are humanoid skeletons that have been reanimated by some dark magic or technological horrors.</p><p>Though they often have evil origins, restless are not inherently evil.</p><p><strong>Restless, Living Skeleton, Walking Death, Humanoid Skeleton, Fearsome Sight, Abomination, Construct With Conscience, Reaper's Orphan, Reanimated Skeleton, Fluke of Reality:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Well Disguised Restless:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Amazing Restless Hero:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Defiled Restless:</strong> Defiled restless are traditionally summoned by powerful mages or liches. In a desire to create a more powerful being, they inlay the skeleton with gems, precious metals, and terrible runes, all designed to trap the soul of someone within the celestial or infernal plane. Bringing such a soul into the world, often against their will, is no easy feat. Often it fails, rarely is it successful, and even more rarely, the soul refuses to cooperate. They leave their creators and strike out on their own.</p><p><strong>Cybernetic Restless:</strong> Augmented with one-of-a-kind technologies created by brilliant scientists, these restless are fearsome to behold. Usually, half their body is comprised by machinery that is unlike anything available to the public. With an AI installed in the empty skull, they were built to serve the purpose of their masters. However, sometimes this AI breaks beyond the bounds of its design, spontaneously becoming aware. Rejecting their creator’s influence, they go in search of understanding their new thoughts that have somehow become mixed with fragments of memory left in the bones of the body.</p><p><strong>Rebooted Restless, Rarest Breed of Restless:</strong> Rebooted are the rarest breed of restless. Sometimes, for no discernable reason, hundreds or thousands of years after death, a well-preserved skeleton will snap to consciousness. They may have partial memories of their previous life, making this new world they inhabit difficult for them to understand. They may have no memories of their previous life, making the world easier to accept but just as challenging to comprehend.</p><p>Many assume that the rebooted are created in much the same manner as the b-ugz. Instead of the energy of realities scraping together and creating an aberration from nothing, the energy finds a vessel in a long dead frame. Others hold that rebooted restless are the champions of long dead gods, the last of their power being used to restart a deceased acolyte.</p><p><strong>Reanimated Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hostile Undead:</strong> Corruption effect 63 Every time you kill a living humanoid creature, it rises as a hostile undead with 1 hit point after 1 minute.</p><p><strong>Ethereal Undead Hands and Claws:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vengeful Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ruin, Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banshee:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9070889, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/372678/Lasers--Liches-Players-Mix?affiliate_id=17596]Lasers & Liches: Players Mix[/URL] 5e [b]Restless:[/b] Restless are humanoid skeletons that have been reanimated by some dark magic or technological horrors. Though they often have evil origins, restless are not inherently evil. [b]Restless, Living Skeleton, Walking Death, Humanoid Skeleton, Fearsome Sight, Abomination, Construct With Conscience, Reaper's Orphan, Reanimated Skeleton, Fluke of Reality:[/b] ? [b]Well Disguised Restless:[/b] ? [b]Amazing Restless Hero:[/b] ? [b]Defiled Restless:[/b] Defiled restless are traditionally summoned by powerful mages or liches. In a desire to create a more powerful being, they inlay the skeleton with gems, precious metals, and terrible runes, all designed to trap the soul of someone within the celestial or infernal plane. Bringing such a soul into the world, often against their will, is no easy feat. Often it fails, rarely is it successful, and even more rarely, the soul refuses to cooperate. They leave their creators and strike out on their own. [b]Cybernetic Restless:[/b] Augmented with one-of-a-kind technologies created by brilliant scientists, these restless are fearsome to behold. Usually, half their body is comprised by machinery that is unlike anything available to the public. With an AI installed in the empty skull, they were built to serve the purpose of their masters. However, sometimes this AI breaks beyond the bounds of its design, spontaneously becoming aware. Rejecting their creator’s influence, they go in search of understanding their new thoughts that have somehow become mixed with fragments of memory left in the bones of the body. [b]Rebooted Restless, Rarest Breed of Restless:[/b] Rebooted are the rarest breed of restless. Sometimes, for no discernable reason, hundreds or thousands of years after death, a well-preserved skeleton will snap to consciousness. They may have partial memories of their previous life, making this new world they inhabit difficult for them to understand. They may have no memories of their previous life, making the world easier to accept but just as challenging to comprehend. Many assume that the rebooted are created in much the same manner as the b-ugz. Instead of the energy of realities scraping together and creating an aberration from nothing, the energy finds a vessel in a long dead frame. Others hold that rebooted restless are the champions of long dead gods, the last of their power being used to restart a deceased acolyte. [b]Reanimated Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Hostile Undead:[/b] Corruption effect 63 Every time you kill a living humanoid creature, it rises as a hostile undead with 1 hit point after 1 minute. [b]Ethereal Undead Hands and Claws:[/b] ? [b]Vengeful Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Dracolich:[/b] ? [b]Ruin, Lich:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Banshee:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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