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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5854733" data-attributes="member: 807">make up a very basic zombie template and apply it to different things...(something as simple as immune to poison and disease, resist 5 necrotic, speed reduced by 2 -- these are things that you can easily and effortlessly apply to an existing stat block without changing up their difficulty)zombie ogre! or zombie cave bear!  etc.you get the variety of the many more monsters but with the theme/flavor of a zombieas for skeleton - that is generally not as 'fast' as zombie and instead requires corpses that have been dead for a while to have decomposed to that level.  so instead of just skeletons, think of them as what they could be skeletons from -- maybe there is a batch of skeletons that all rose from the site of a famous battle?Maybe they are skeletons that rose from a sunken pirate ship?Maybe they are skeletons that rose from a cemetery?What do the PCs do if one of the skeletons is wearing adornments/jewels/armor that denote is a member of a royal house? what about if the adornments denote it as an ancestor to one of the PCs himself/herself?</blockquote>