D&D MONSTER RANKINGS - UNDEAD

My elf paladin of conquest died but in a very awkward situation he got disintegrated and only his hand became a death knight. I guess he was some sort of crawling arch-claw

dracolich needs spell casting

Giant mummy crocodile

Your passion for this is tangible. You're like a chef talking about favorite dishes and cuisine. Thank you very much for this.

Vampires are great, usually popculture represents them awful, but D&D representation of Vampires is excellent, so similar to Vampire origins in Serbian mythology!

I mean, when Fairy Dragons, Silver Dragons, Copper and Brass dragons exist you can't really say that dragons are more terrifying than the undead.
Those are the top 4 most likely to cuddle with you instead of kill you.

Wights aren't people. Wight comes from Old Norse Vaettir. Which you mentioned but didn't quite get.
It's an Animist principle. Vaettir means spirit. Like land or house spirits. Tomte, goblin, kobold, and other such myths come from beliefs in home and land spirits.

Where would you fit the Bodak in this list?

I like using Crawling claws with Zombies. I give it a 50/50 chance when someone hits a zombie with a slashing attack on whether or not they slice off their hand. if they do, the hand becomes a crawling claw.

"armor blocks a wraiths touch as much as Kobold's spear" This is one of things that comes down to narrative description in D&D. You'd never narrate it that your armor stopped a wraith's attack, instead you must have managed to avoid it. Mechanically you could decide to homebrew it that you only get your 10+dex AC instead of any armor benefits, but this would make them a lot more scary.

I love undead and japanese yokai

Technically every adventurer and most medival soldiers/guards are murderers. There should be enough hands on a battlefield.

Also the (not ancient) egyptians used mummified cats as fertilizer on their fields because they were so abundant.

Love the band based tier naming.

Time for a rework of this classical Evergreen?

I love undead and it’s perhaps my favourite type of monster.

Bro did you just put up a picture of a buerocratic humanoid hippo with a monocle and labe it as... LOW in style???

Edit: my boy has a blicky and is smoking a pipe 😤 hella style my guy

Is love undead and monster
Is in sat Oct 8 2022

Jack gives me idea.. Undead Wanderer Who still has his personality and he can chuck fire bolts at you with his lantern/Pumpkin skull

If a demi-lich is lesser than a lich then why did Kangaxx transform from a lich to a demi-lich?

I thought Zombies would be at the bottom.

Incan mummies 'We mummified out mummies on top of cool mountains sometimes sacrificing them, we are badass'
Japanese self-mummifying mummies 'Hold my bandages'

I had one of the best times with a Revenant. The party had this NPC that they liked, but due to some unlucky rolls he fell into a river where they were escaping.. they assumed he drowned.

Well one day they heard:

""I didn't drowned, you didn't come, they tortured me, you didn't come""

From that point on it became a thing, a whole ark, and it became almost like a bogyman. It was awesome! Especially when they destroyed his body, but they forgot that they killed a giant not long before, which was closest body to it... So few days later they herd from the giant mouth:

""I didn't drowned, you didn't come, they tortured me, you didn't come"

My vampire hung the parties kid from a spar

Shouldnt the mummy Lord be named Pharao ? 😂

A Bloodmagic/Necromancer, -bloodcleric ,female half-Succubus half-Drow -Vampire as a Main Villian .
But the Player will be Like, marry me😂

Stingy Jack's lantern will never go out. When he decided hell was better than endless wandering,. the devil laughed at him, reminded him that he would never be allowed in, and threw a coal of eternal hellfire at his head, which Jack put in his lantern.

Both skeletons and zombies were more interesting in 3rd edition by them being templates, you could have a level 1 fighter zombie and a level 12 barbarian skeleton and they'd be technically the same character, but play very different

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I feel like the Demilich has a lot more role playing potential, when you consider the fact that it could be presented as a lich with schizophrenia. Alternatively, there is the question of what would cause a lich to voluntarily abandon the practice of consuming souls in order to maintain its form.

They took a lot of the undead touch attack effects out in 3e my guy. Used to be, you wouldn't dare build a party without Turn Undead because all of their touch attacks could fuck you up a lot. Like level drains, disformation, etc. They toned that back a lottle bit in more recent editions.

Actually yes as a DM I constantly run games that don't have the modern terminology for undead because undead means still living on dead meaning not dead so yes if you want to be technical everyone's campaign is always full of undead living creatures

Vampires are also often known for their ability in political maneuvering, both among their own kind and to gain power and influence in the mortal world as well. Even a solitary one probably has minions and spies in the areas around their castles. And given as they must consume the life force of the living they can't be that solitary. They do solidly belong in the A tier.

Depends if their corporal or not.
With corporal enough firepower can stop tjem but with incorporal ghost - no amount of guns is going to help you fight against them.
I'd fight a vampire before i'd fight a ghost. I can at least a vampire.

Flexibility: Low: Snake
Heh

Hey brother your incorrect about a demi lich, it is a higher and more powerful version of a lich thats transcended the use of its body and makes use of power stones like those gems in its eyes and spends much of its time roaming the multiverse in search of power amd secrets.

I had a really cool idea for the backstory of way of long death monks in 5e.
Throughout the years they train until eventually they commit shokushonbutsu and actually become a form of undead. For funsies I thought it would be cool if they only ever had 1 apprentice at a time, like the Sith. I should homebrew a prestige class for becoming an undead monk or something

lol those tier names. Nice nod to white zombie.

Mummy lords tying into dark gods elevate them way above the others IMHO.

The demilich is one of the nastiest things you can run into. They have an optional ability where they can trap and feed on souls

I've never thought it's was a monster the crawling claw - my scariest nightmare as a child was a crawling claw only happen once but I still remember 😮

Skeletons are also versatile, as they can use weapons melee or ranged, and some even got magic... Much higher than Zombies.

Justice for the shadow, it is a major threat for low level parties and anyone who uses dexterity or a spell casting mod to attack. At higher levels if a boss has shadows they can actually lower damage to the boss by reducing the to hit and damage of strength based characters like fighters, barbarians, paladins, and some other niche builds. And you can’t ignore them because if they go after the spell casters they will go down fast unless they wear heavy armor (and thus have high enough str for it).

what about vampire dragon?

Murders gotta pay and the payment is baby hands

I beg to disagree about Demi-Lich. Its an advanced state of evolution for lich itself. Evolving past physical form. Its more less intentional process or a byproduct of them living that "lifestyle" so to say. But they have to do it intentionally, learn how to create Soul Gems and put them inside their sculls, or other parts of their body, like spine, limb joints etc. So it takes effort for it and its voluntarely procedure, most of the time.

(shows real human remains stolen from their families, and held up as museum exhibits. then says) "the potential here is really limitless."

i clearly found the wrong channel.

What do you call a really cool zombie? A fundead!

I miss AD&D 2nd edition Death Knight. Since 3rd edition the death knight just seems like a spell stitched skeleton warrior.

For most powerful of undead beings id say are Liches, Mummy Lords, Vampires, artificial phantasms like spectres or quasi-real animations, and trolls(Note: Have mild undead traits, trolls are also reptilian, their like a reptile with faint undead properties), can be totally immortal, omnipotent, infinitely supreme all those kind of things they call it. All these 6 can regenerate from death, do not feel pain, and retain some to all lifeform mind function and neural chakra elements, or even just given the traits artificially like a magically created spectre lifeform, given a concience and a holy spirit to go along with it.

Next id put ghosts, zombies, and ghouls, they have less qualities, and they dont usually retain rudimentary intelligence and brain functions, they dont feel pain, but they can in some cases lack souls or regenerative properties due to the length of being dead to reality.

Last id put revenants, skeletons, poltergeists, or things like phase spiders or small types of spirits like energy orbs or wisps. Many of these different types lack magical ability or immortality properties.

Why are the serverd hands not from thieves?