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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7598674" data-attributes="member: 97077"><p>It's also a rule that doesn't exist. So don't worry about it. Zombies can absolutely grapple and shove.</p><p></p><p>MM, p. 10: "When a monster takes its action, it can choose from the options in the Actions section of its stat block or use one of the actions available to all creatures..." </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Did it last session, in fact. Some zombies grabbed the cleric and dragged him away from the rest of the party who were dealing with an ogre zombie, doppleganger, and a necromancer in a crowded marketplace. The cleric had already turned the ogre zombie before these other zombies arrived on the scene, so the cleric didn't have that option available to him when they grappled him.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Any good tactic that a zombie is seen to employ (or any monster for that matter) can be explained away. Fiction is mutable - just make something up if you have to. Perhaps these zombies are just grasping at flesh and inadvertently pushing the characters back and not grappling for some great tactical reason the zombie came up with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's very situational. Consider adding a terrain feature like a necromantic aura on a statue or whatever that does damage to living creatures if they enter or start their turns in it. Then have the zombies grapple and drag PCs into it and hold them there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7598674, member: 97077"] It's also a rule that doesn't exist. So don't worry about it. Zombies can absolutely grapple and shove. MM, p. 10: "When a monster takes its action, it can choose from the options in the Actions section of its stat block or use one of the actions available to all creatures..." Did it last session, in fact. Some zombies grabbed the cleric and dragged him away from the rest of the party who were dealing with an ogre zombie, doppleganger, and a necromancer in a crowded marketplace. The cleric had already turned the ogre zombie before these other zombies arrived on the scene, so the cleric didn't have that option available to him when they grappled him. Any good tactic that a zombie is seen to employ (or any monster for that matter) can be explained away. Fiction is mutable - just make something up if you have to. Perhaps these zombies are just grasping at flesh and inadvertently pushing the characters back and not grappling for some great tactical reason the zombie came up with. That's very situational. Consider adding a terrain feature like a necromantic aura on a statue or whatever that does damage to living creatures if they enter or start their turns in it. Then have the zombies grapple and drag PCs into it and hold them there. [/QUOTE]
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