"A zombie doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep." This means that even if you give your party more than they could handle and give some environment opportunities for the zombies to get stuck in, they are stupid enough to go through these obvious traps in pursuit of the party. The only thing why I enjoy using zombies is that they don't have any sense of self-preservation. Zombies stumble through roaring infernos, into pools of acid, and across fields littered with caltrops without hesitation." To reach a foe below it, a zombie might step out of an open window. A zombie might stumble into a fast-flowing river to reach foes on a far shore, clawing at the surface as it is battered against rocks and destroyed. "Zombies take the most direct route to any foe, unable to comprehend obstacles, tactics, or dangerous terrain. Well, this gives some ideas for variant zombies. A zombie might wash ashore or rise from a marsh, swollen and reeking after weeks in the water." The muddy cadaver of a peasant could claw its way from the ground, riddled with maggots and worms. Dead warriors might rise from a battlefield, eviscerated and bloated after days in the sun. However, the magic that creates these vile creatures often takes time to run its course. "Zombies appear as they did in life, showing the wounds that killed them. Since it's easy to blame it on an evil necromancer for some wrong-doings, what if the story is a bit different? If we even take Frankenstein, maybe it's a person that constructed a machine(MacGuffin) that "activates dark magic" as a consequence, and that's why zombies are roaming around town. In that case, we need to delve into more exciting aspects rather than just having a mustache-twirling necromancer responsible for zombies' appearance. Suppose we want to have a zombie-themed adventure and put more of an interesting twist. Maybe it's a MacGuffin that the party needs to find/destroy, or somehow it's influenced by a magical particle plague or something affecting the quest location. Even though Necromancers are a bit cliche, the dark magic phenomenon could provide an interesting story hook. The only thing I can gather from this is that they are created by a necromancer or an effect of dark magic occurring somewhere near. Once turned into a zombie, a creature can't be restored to life except by powerful magic, such as a resurrection spell." Some zombies arise spontaneously when dark magic saturates an area. Necromantic magic, usually from spells, animates a zombie. Most zombies are made from humanoid remains, though the flesh and bones of any formerly living creature can be imbued with a semblance of life. They move with a jerky, uneven gait, clad in the moldering apparel they wore when put to rest, and carrying the stench of decay. "Sinister necromantic magic infuses the remains of the dead, causing them to rise as zombies that do their creator's bidding without fear or hesitation.
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slam you to death? For me, that is not enough for zombies, so let's take a look at what we could do to make them more interesting in our campaigns and how to use them. They will not eat you, infect you, they will.
Even though they are Dark servants in D&D, they don't serve us the DM's as an exciting monster to give to our players mainly because they lack any reason besides being mindless creatures for our party to get rid of. However, this depiction of zombies is not as exciting or terrifying as some other pop-Culture reasons we have already seen. This depiction root traces back to Haitian folklore, where zombies are raised by magical means of witchcraft. In Monster Manual, zombies are depicted as a result of a corpse reanimated by necromancy and serve as mindless servants rather than disease went wrong. However, today we will be looking at the D&D depiction of zombies and how to use them in our encounters. And over the years of their existence, we saw different variations of zombies in movies and TV. Zombies are one of the most iconic monstrous creatures not only in D&D and fantasy.
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