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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6766900" data-attributes="member: 54629">I like the idea of ramping up the monster each time they encounter it. The first time they encounter it, they might just be like &quot;Whoa! That half-ogre cleric we killed earlier just came back as a zombie! And somehow it knew where we were!&quot; Next time, it might be like, &quot;Wait a minute. That human zombie thing that just attacked us spoke with the half-ogre's voice! What's going on here?&quot; And so on.That being said, the entry on revenants does say that, &quot;Regardless of the body the revenant uses as a vessel, its adversary always recognizes the revenant for what it truly is.&quot; I presume that to mean that its sworn targets know that it's out to get *them* -- and that it's an intelligent undead, not just a mindless zombie -- but not necessarily that it is a &quot;revenant&quot; and all that that entails.EDIT: By the way, I decided I'd leave the half-ogre's mental ability scores unchanged. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have it suddenly become a lot more intelligent, wise, and charismatic than it was in life. As for letting it keep its spellcasting, I'm just not sure on account of it being a cleric. It makes sense that a sorcerer or wizard or whatever might retain its powers as a revenant, but a cleric? I dunno. I guess it might depend on the deity. And this half-ogre's deity is Grolantor, the hill giant and ogre patron deity. Wikipedia describes him as being &quot;evil second and stupid first&quot;. I suppose he might let his former cleric continue to cast spells in order to help him achieve his goal of revenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 6766900, member: 54629"] I like the idea of ramping up the monster each time they encounter it. The first time they encounter it, they might just be like "Whoa! That half-ogre cleric we killed earlier just came back as a zombie! And somehow it knew where we were!" Next time, it might be like, "Wait a minute. That human zombie thing that just attacked us spoke with the half-ogre's voice! What's going on here?" And so on. That being said, the entry on revenants does say that, [I]"Regardless of the body the revenant uses as a vessel, its adversary always recognizes the revenant for what it truly is."[/I] I presume that to mean that its sworn targets know that it's out to get *them* -- and that it's an intelligent undead, not just a mindless zombie -- but not necessarily that it is a "revenant" and all that that entails. EDIT: By the way, I decided I'd leave the half-ogre's mental ability scores unchanged. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have it suddenly become a lot more intelligent, wise, and charismatic than it was in life. As for letting it keep its spellcasting, I'm just not sure on account of it being a cleric. It makes sense that a sorcerer or wizard or whatever might retain its powers as a revenant, but a cleric? I dunno. I guess it might depend on the deity. And this half-ogre's deity is Grolantor, the hill giant and ogre patron deity. Wikipedia describes him as being [I]"evil second and stupid first"[/I]. I suppose he might let his former cleric continue to cast spells in order to help him achieve his goal of revenge. [/QUOTE]

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