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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6034100" data-attributes="member: 58197">Visually, there are two kinds of incorporeal undead: Transparent people and smoky black shapes. I don't think any of the other distinguishing traits are salient enough to stick in the average person's mind. These transparent people are rotted-looking while those transparent people look like they did when alive, and that means they're totally different beasts? Good luck conveying that.This is going outside the scope of the art department, but I would go with the flow on this one and organize all incorporeal undead into "phantoms" and "shades." Phantoms are the transparent-people undead, and include things like ghosts, spectres, apparitions, and banshees. Shades are the smoky-black-shapes undead, including allips, wraiths, and shadows. A spectre and a ghost are not identical, but they're the same basic type of being, like frost giants and fire giants.At that point, it becomes okay to have spectres and ghosts look similar, or wraiths and shadows. They look similar because they are similar. Minor traits like rotted/whole or glowing/not glowing don't have to carry the weight of distinguishing two unrelated monsters.</blockquote>