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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9238626" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/DM_Experience_2011.pdf" target="_blank">The Dungeon Master Experience</a></p><p>4e</p><p><strong>Blasphemous Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Critter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vecna, Maimed Lord, Undead God of Secrets:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Aspect of Vecna, Undead Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Minotaur:</strong> The big payoff came in the climactic battle, when the hamburger was transformed into four undead minotaurs by a Wortstaff necromantic ritual.</p><p><strong>Undead Elder Brain:</strong> Once they realized they needed the elder brain to power the ship, the Monday night players (to their credit) weighed the ramifications of raising it from the dead versus reanimating it. Ultimately they decided that the undead version would be easier to control, and under normal circumstances, they’d be right. But you can’t throw “undead elder brain” at the DM (at least, not THIS one) and expect it to end well. Suffice to say, the elder brain was shocked back to “life” by Imazhia’s ritual and immediately lashed out at the party.</p><p><strong>Death Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vicious Death Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Benign Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghostly Apparition:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Icristus, Dracolich:</strong> The heroes learned that Icristus was brought back from the dead years ago by an arcane sect called the Kalak Shun: outcast dragonborn wizards who practice necromancy.</p><p><strong>Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Osterneth the Bronze Lich, Lich, Powerful Lich, Helpful Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Evil Lich-King:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Alathar Balefrost, Half-Elf Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Alagon, Revenant Ranger:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Revenant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kronze, Skeletal Red Dragon Overlord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spike, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Drusilla, Dru, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Yuriel, Vampire, Undead Horror, Undead Husband:</strong> She offered to instead implant an artificial heart in one of the fallen heroes: Nick DiPetrillo’s character, the swordmage Yuriel, but the heart was designed to pump necrotic sludge through the veins of its beneficiary. Implanting it would effectively transform Yuriel into an undead creature.</p><p>If you really want to take this idea to the next level, take a dead character and bring him or her back as an undead horror. That’s what happened to Nick DiPetrillo’s genasi swordmage, Yuriel, who had his soul devoured by a death knight’s sword. A helpful lich named Osterneth offered to put an artificial heart in Yuriel’s corpse and pump necrotic sludge through his dead veins, and though the other players objected, Yuriel’s wife and first mate (a watersoul genasi NPC named Pearl) was determined to have her darling husband back, and so . . . say hello to Yuriel the vampire!</p><p><strong>Azrol Tharn, Dwarf Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Count Strahd von Zarovich, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Muppet:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kael, Zombified Deva Cleric:</strong> Chris Champagne joined the Monday night group in the middle of the campaign’s paragon tier, and Kael, his deva cleric, actually died twice. The first time was during a Halloween-themed episode involving a killer plant and several enslaved “pod people.” (As a fun aside, the other characters used a special potion to reanimate Kael until he could be raised from the dead, giving Chris the chance to play a zombified version of Kael for the extent of the adventure.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9238626, member: 2209"] [URL=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/DM_Experience_2011.pdf]The Dungeon Master Experience[/URL] 4e [b]Blasphemous Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead Critter:[/b] ? [b]Vecna, Maimed Lord, Undead God of Secrets:[/b] ? [b]Aspect of Vecna, Undead Lord:[/b] ? [b]Undead Minotaur:[/b] The big payoff came in the climactic battle, when the hamburger was transformed into four undead minotaurs by a Wortstaff necromantic ritual. [b]Undead Elder Brain:[/b] Once they realized they needed the elder brain to power the ship, the Monday night players (to their credit) weighed the ramifications of raising it from the dead versus reanimating it. Ultimately they decided that the undead version would be easier to control, and under normal circumstances, they’d be right. But you can’t throw “undead elder brain” at the DM (at least, not THIS one) and expect it to end well. Suffice to say, the elder brain was shocked back to “life” by Imazhia’s ritual and immediately lashed out at the party. [b]Death Knight:[/b] ? [b]Vicious Death Knight:[/b] ? [b]Benign Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ghostly Apparition:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Icristus, Dracolich:[/b] The heroes learned that Icristus was brought back from the dead years ago by an arcane sect called the Kalak Shun: outcast dragonborn wizards who practice necromancy. [b]Dracolich:[/b] ? [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Osterneth the Bronze Lich, Lich, Powerful Lich, Helpful Lich:[/b] ? [b]Evil Lich-King:[/b] ? [b]Alathar Balefrost, Half-Elf Lich:[/b] ? [b]Alagon, Revenant Ranger:[/b] ? [b]Revenant:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Kronze, Skeletal Red Dragon Overlord:[/b] ? [b]Spike, Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Drusilla, Dru, Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Yuriel, Vampire, Undead Horror, Undead Husband:[/b] She offered to instead implant an artificial heart in one of the fallen heroes: Nick DiPetrillo’s character, the swordmage Yuriel, but the heart was designed to pump necrotic sludge through the veins of its beneficiary. Implanting it would effectively transform Yuriel into an undead creature. If you really want to take this idea to the next level, take a dead character and bring him or her back as an undead horror. That’s what happened to Nick DiPetrillo’s genasi swordmage, Yuriel, who had his soul devoured by a death knight’s sword. A helpful lich named Osterneth offered to put an artificial heart in Yuriel’s corpse and pump necrotic sludge through his dead veins, and though the other players objected, Yuriel’s wife and first mate (a watersoul genasi NPC named Pearl) was determined to have her darling husband back, and so . . . say hello to Yuriel the vampire! [b]Azrol Tharn, Dwarf Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Count Strahd von Zarovich, Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Muppet:[/b] ? [b]Kael, Zombified Deva Cleric:[/b] Chris Champagne joined the Monday night group in the middle of the campaign’s paragon tier, and Kael, his deva cleric, actually died twice. The first time was during a Halloween-themed episode involving a killer plant and several enslaved “pod people.” (As a fun aside, the other characters used a special potion to reanimate Kael until he could be raised from the dead, giving Chris the chance to play a zombified version of Kael for the extent of the adventure.) [/QUOTE]
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