>Party wants to run an undead campaign, where the main goal

>>49647442
Sounds ultra grim-dark, meaning it will naturally be kinda silly.

What about a super-vain elf, who just happens to be dead? He spends a lot trying to sew the pieces that fall off back on, and keeps trying ridiculous new concoctions of makeup.

A dwarf who thinks that being dead just means he doesn't have to worry about hang-overs because he doesn't need to sleep, any more.

An emaciated human who makes up exotic races to pretend to be, to explain his pale skin and emaciated figure. Mostly he tries to pass himself off as half snow-elf.

I dunno... fun things.

>>49647442
Vampires and mummies are good intelligent undeads who'd be interested in ruling things.

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>>49647442
Not sure if it really helps but i was working on a sort of self Frankensteining doctor. He would sew shit to himself and others to heal people and shit like that. Now outside of an undead campaign that's mostly a down side, people start complaining about the idiot who keeps sewing girls to dogs and shit like that.

I was also creating a dwarven setra.Basically the greyest of beards and wants everything to be bigger and more challenging so the dwarves of the day will not be so weedy.

Right now i am playing an undead who pretends to be a leper to blend into human society (as well as a rotting corpse/leper can). He's driven to kill as many unthinking undead (he's far more lenient on undead that WANT to live). All of his shit kind stems from the fact he was a worshipper of the raven queen and just 't wants to keep on living.

>>49647442
an ancient underground kingdom of skeletons who you wish to ally yourself with to take over the surface

the problem is they're all hedonists and just want to party all day/night

>>49647442
A human necromancer that's completely convinced he's undead despite still being alive.

>>49647844
Holy shit, I'd love a court of party skeletons

>>49647442
Skeleton warrior who's constantly spouting racial pride crap and being racist - but he always swaps around the races and because he's a skeleton nobody knows what race he used to be, so it becomes apparent he just likes starting shit.

>>49647782

Gonna second mummies. I played a mummy swashbuckler once. It was awesome.

I like the idea of a mummy that's really, really forgetful and thus can tap into incredibly powerful, ancient magic in the off chance he actually remembers it. This is not a common thing.

>>49647442

Make an avatar of anubis who is supposed to ferry their souls to the underworld but they just keep juking him. Eventually it gets to the point that this underworld middle-management stooge is telling the party 'Look guys, I know you're not coming with but it'd really be a lot better if y'all just jumped into this river of souls. Come on guys, for my job.'

A couple games to look through for ideas/inspiration for how undead can be done as a culture and as actual people with a personality:

Legacy of Kain series (it's also an amazing story)
Warhammer Fantasy -> Tomb Kings/Vampire Counts
Warcraft 3 Scourge campaign
WoW: Wrath of the Lich King (if you read the books in the DK starting zone that sould be enough - if your google-fu is strong enough to find them all)
Heroes of Might & Magic 3/5
Planescape: Torment -> Nameless One and Morte

>>49647442
have a bard skeleton that plays his ribs like an xylophone

I don't know how this would work mechanically, but I imagine a rogue who uses parts of his body independently, and leaves them all around the place. Like, they would leave an ear or an eye in someone's room to spy on them, or send only their hand with a knife to kill someone in their sleep.

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>>49647835
>Right now i am playing an undead who pretends to be a leper to blend into human society

Y'done good, sonny jim.

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>>49647442
http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2014/12/kel-bethor-city-of-necromancers.html

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>>49647442
CROWN UPON HIS HEAD

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Ushabti
u s h a b t i

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I have no ideas, so I'll just post deads

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>>49647442
Coccyx out for boner jokes

>>49647442
POST PUNNY SKELINGTON NAMES
Nicholas Ribcage
Pelvis Costello
Bones Mccoy
Bone Cold Stephen Austin
Captain Jack Marrow
Maculay Skullkin

>>49647442
The undead can propagate themselves by combining different spare parts of each other to make a new undead.

For instance:
>two separate skeletons
>one takes a couple spare ribs off
>the other takes their jaw bone and a couple vertebrae off
>combine these into new skeleton
>both original skeletons and new skeleton regenerate
>now there are three skeletons

Short tempered Banshee who screams just all the fucking time.

>>49648454
soice?

>>49648475
Unfortunately, this just curses nearby undead with death. Which does nothing. A hazard to the living, a nuisance to the dead.

>>49647442
Drop in the Turduckendead at some point.
>Ghost possessing a sword that animates whatever the sword is stuck in
>Stick it in an already animated skeleton
>Wrap the skeleton in a deboned zombie (or wight or something more hardcore)
>Wrap the zombie in a skinrag (Flying animated skin)
>Wrap the multiundead in a suit of haunted armor
>Stick a bunch of shadows to the outside
>Give it another haunted sword
>...
>Stick the whole thing in the ribcage of a giant skeleton
>Repeat

>>49648515
thats One Piece

>>49648562
>screaming at her underlings all the time for their mundane zombie incompetence. Each more deaf than the last

>>49647442
A Skeleton that genuinely enjoys being undead, revels in it, and constantly tries to sell being undead to living beings like a used car salesman

Dorf skelly who engraved,bejeweled and covered his skeleton in the finest metals

>>49648562
And the entire thing is in a suit of haunted armor.

They can't quite remember which one of them is in control.

>>49648562
Reminds me of my idea for a doppelganger outfitted with mimic armor, a mimic shield, and a mimic sword

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And what are you planning to do with your kingdom? Empire? How do you all imagine the ideal undead heaven? Also

>Zombie death knight, serving the voice of his Dark Godess
>A spoiled vampire noble in search of new thrills
>Skeleton mage, who is actually just a simple human merchant. He doesn't know where he get his knowledge of magic from.
>A giant ghoul, who is suprisingly intelligent. Master huntsman.

>>49647442
How about an upright ghostly librarian/curator that guards and keeps track of all the magical texts and artefacts for the lich and the party. He's not really such a bad guy, he just takes his responsibility very seriously.

>>49650808
>A spoiled vampire noble in search of new thrills
I don't know about a vampire, but definitely a thrill seeking undead. Maybe they want to make up for their boring previous life or maybe they were always a thrill seeker and died that way.

>>49650937
How about a mummy? In life he was a hedonistic prince and in death he's much the same (albeit a bit pissed off its harder to get drunk when you're internal organs are in a jar somewhere)

>>49650937
An undead arcane spellcaster adrenaline junky. A one man undead jackass.

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>>49651027
>Spoiled, pissed off, thrill seeking, mummy prince
Yeah, I can get behind that.

How about a sapient bone ossuary,

>>49650106
This one's good

>>49647442
Headless horseman.

Reading all of this makes me want to play a husked adventurer in dwarf fort adventure mode.
I get most of my character ideas from adventure mode

>>49648265
Legacy of Kain is my primary source material for this, actually

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Thanks guys, I'm digging these ideas. Especially the metal dwarf and the mummy prince, but every single skeleton idea so far has been gold.

Does a spirit bound to armor count as undead?

>>49647442

Name each for bones in the human body.

The goal is to create an ultimate SPOOK.

>>49655128
>Does a spirit bound to armor count as undead?
If it's a mortal spirit and not an elemental spirit or something, yeah in a way. The armor itself won't have the traits and weaknesses of the undead, but the spirit might grant it some special traits or abilities but could be exorcised.

>>49655185
>Name each for bones in the human body.
Skeleton named Humerus has to be a Bard or a Jester

Whoops, I wanted to reply to this
>>49650808
>And what are you planning to do with your kingdom?

The story we have so far is that the Revenant's target is someone of royal blood, a king or something to that effect. The Lich, who had existing machinations to take a kingdom, makes him an asset. The Lich (and by extension, the Revenant) worship a patron of undeath (my DnD isn't great so I don't know fluff specifics).

Once we take the kingdom and (hopefully) continue the game, the idea is that we pursue death in the same nature that the living pursue life. Conquer, ravish, salt. But, that's all far ahead of us, we still need ideas to get off the ground.

>>49655185
>>49655230
I think someone mentioned this idea earlier in the thread, but a court jester who was so good, they cursed him with immortality to entertain the royal family forever.

The royal family lasted one or two more generations.

>>49647442
An undead elven ranger.
Froze to death in some wasteland and he's raised an extinct undead beast as his pet.

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>>49655295
>raised an extinct undead beast as his pet
I submit for a Mastodon for your approval

>>49655128
Haunted armor is yes.

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>>49655128

No one ever suggests a Mohrg. Those things would make a cool Barbarian.

The idea is that they are undead spirits of convicted serial killers but are undead animated by a weird outsider spirit worm thing. So you could go the boring way and just have him be a kill crazy bruiser. But you could also do weird otherworldly shit by having it consort with demons.

Or it could be a wacky goofball. Name him Shamus, give him some fake skin and have him constantly embarrassingly explain away his horrifying stomach churning as gas or something he ate.

Also if you want to get REAL, rad a Beholder Death Tyrant.

Or just go for broke and make yourself The Grudge.

>>49648562
Dont you mean turduckUNdead?

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Here's some homebrew racesfrom the 5eg links. They aren't terribly balanced but they might help. Death Knights would be a fun idea to do.

>>49647875
Is that a LFG reference?

>>49647442
>Dwarf Mummy Priest:

"When i died, my followers interred me in a dwarf-made mountain hewn of the finest stone."

>Ghost Halfling Thief:

"Oh, My my mymymymymy. This is a locked door. and a diabolical trap. and a fiendishly evil puzzle. Whelp. just gonna have to walk through this wall too. I'll open it from the other side for you fleshbits."

>Skeleton Human Paladin
"Right, so, apparently the god of death wants me to be his skeletal champion... I'm not exactly down with this, but fuck it. Higher calling and all."

>>49647442
>Party wants to run an undead campai-
FUCKING YES

>>49647442
if you are being evil you cant have a revenant

>>49651248
what about a headless centaur dressed as a horseman?

>>49651235
There could even be a short plot hook where he wonders if hes still human, as he becomes closer and closer to a golem

>>49659996
>not a paladin who decided that his duty was not done

>>49660215
He probably wouldn't be a revenant then. Not arguing against a paladin coming back, but revenants are about revenge, not duty.

>>49660129
>A headless horse-man
I can dig it.

>>49647693
>>49647835
>>49648150
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>>49648355
Holy fuck these are golden

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>>49660308
Like I said, my dnd isn't great, so I don't know a lot of the fluff. If it helps, here's what we're thinking;

The Revenant is supposed to have some direct connection to his Royal Blood target. I'm thinking betrayal on a grand scale being the catalyst for his undeath.

>>49647442
>ghosts who posses enemies and use them to wreck havoc/sow discord
>vampires/death knights with a warped view of honor
>a priest of Orcus, undead or not, who wants to establish an undead empire of his own and this magical realm ain't big enough for the both of you

>>49661435
>a priest of Orcus, undead or not, who wants to establish an undead empire of his own
We actually have a player interested in playing a 'mortal' drow, who serves the undead council, unwavering

>>49648411
Ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo

>>49647442
Skeleton cavalier who has lost his legs. His only method of getting around is DECAPITATING RIDEABLE CREATURES AND GOING IN THROUGH THE NECK STUMP MAKING HIM INTO A HORRID UNDEAD TAURMONSTER THAT CHANGES HIS ASS EVERY TWO MINUTES

As far as he is concerned, he could just make a unique saddle, but he doesn't want to.

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Spooky bump

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>>49648265

You forgot the best one.

>>49647835
Im stealing your character, anon.

>>49648475
this sounds really funny but would probably end up just being annoying

>>49647844
>>49647693

Hedonistic Party Undead seem legit. That's a good 40% of vampire fiction right there.

>>49648562
God yes.

>>49651027
Spoiled brat "people these days don't respect their gods" mummy could work, but you'd need a good player to not be obnoxious with it.

>>49661490
Reminds me of a story I read where a Warlock who lost her legs just hollowed out the chest cavity of an undead giant (or something) and rode around inside it.

>>49661772
"I already died once and it wasn't even CLOSE to as bad as I thought it would be."

>>49647442
A Ghost Barbarian.

He can't actually "touch" anything.

>>49661236
sauce ?

>>49657841
How about a cheeky shithead of a morgue?
Keeps waggling his tongue at people in an unsettling manner.

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>>49647442

>A collective conciousness of dead people in the form of a squishy mass of flesh and gore, it has trouble finding friend and hooking up because even by the undead standard "they" are disgusting

>An assassin/spy undead entity reduced to a walking nervous system, he infiltrate inside living human body to take their place.

>A former teacher who have trouble finding a new job as people don't want a rotting body to educate their children

>A undead king/queen/emperor/empres who also want to create an undead kingdom, and reunite all undead creature who seek a safe haven, he have the same goal as the party but is fucking around with the player because it deem iself as the true king of undead

> An undead Jester, executed because a king hated his humour. He is now looking for a new royal court to entertain

How about a skeleton that wants to killhimself but uses all the wrong ways?
He tries to hang himself
Slit his wrists
Drown himself
Tired himself to death and all the other undead thinking he makes fun of mortals but he just wants to die

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>>49662710
It's an old shadman comic. There isn't a follow-up by the way, in case you were hoping to rattle your bones.

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Skeletons coated/transmuted into different kinds of metal and turned undead
>Iron skeletons that are especially their own suit of armor, used for general military endeavors, also act as great lightning rods for the castle
>Silver/cold iron skeletons that can be used as internal peace keepers in the city
>Golden skeletons that are intelligent enough to act both as status symbols and butlers
>Copper/bronze skeletons used for labor and general use around town
>Thorium skeletons for when you want a nuclear option but can't actually creat nukes, and heat Ray eyes are always a nice touch
>Cobalt-60 skeletons for when you just want to salt the earth of all the damn living meat-bags
>Diamond skeletons for when you want to disassemble that idiot necromancer because diamond isn't the hardest metal know to this plane, no matter how much that undead bone rattling forum tell him it is,
>Dam NEET necromancers

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>DOOT

A skeleton thief that is absolutely convinced the secret to the trade is to swap his skull like masks

He carries a bunch of different skulls around. Uses the goat skull to deal with cultists, the Wolf skull to track, the elf skull for diplomacy and so on. When he is lonely he talks to them and reminisces about their adventures like he wasn't there and each one is its own being

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skeleton thread?

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>>49667420
Doot doot

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>>49648562
I love this Turducken undead

Jokes aside, this concept sounds like it could be a new type of undead creature in vanilla DnD or a nice add on for DMs Guild stuff.

Cool monster, wonder what level heroes would fight it. Seems powerful.

Need to figure out some lore and shit... I really like dis

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Undead are always shown as being dressed in rags and with cobwebs and rotting flesh hanging off them.

If I was undead I'd take better care of myself, god damn it!

I want a clean freak undead Skeleman who has shiny polished white bones that are reflective. It dresses impeccably and decided to dissolve the last of its flesh when it began to decay because it was disgusting. It enjoys disguising itself as beautiful or handsome living beings and uses Prestidigitation cantrips to clean everything. I also has some cleaning stuff in its ribcage along with its valuables.

It may deck out its skeleton with jewels, gold and silver similar to the holy Saint skeletons of the old Catholic Church.

A calcium witch. Her familar is a herd of cows and a bull
She provides milk for morning breakfast. It's good and gives you +2ac

The bull seriously hates skelingtons though

The embalmed corpse of the king of a long-dead civilization, who upon the fulfillment of a prophecy tied to the end of the world will rise again to lead his people in creating a new nation in the afterlife.

Said prophecy has been filled accidentally by the campaign's BBEG, but unfortunately his people were wiped out shortly after his death. Now he just tries to cope with the culture shock.

>>49647442

Oh, I have read a book once about this...

It had:

An intelligent Ghoul who wanted to try to eat anything else than dead bodies, but everything tasted like shit.

A not-so-intelligent Ghoul who the first Ghoul tried to teach how to behave properly.

A Skeleton Archer who had to constantly remind everyone of her femininity as she was seen nothing but a pile of bones.

A Spirit, almost invisible, whose only means of communication was writing in the dust, sand, snow or whatever. Could fly, was a Dwarf in his life, lost his hammer.

And a Mummy who was surely an important person, even a priest, who got constantly scared from his own Turn Undead.

>>49669452

Damn, and I have forgotten the Fighter, who was a local strong peasant boy, alive, just the others duped him to believe that he is an undead.

How about someone who died in a navel battle and has become bitter from having to walk back to land?

More of a side character/lackey thing I guess

>>49669745
>finally gets to land
>ends up on a boat thanks to shenanigans
>sinks AGAIN

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>>49669452
>>49669502
Shit, I love these.

>>49668049
I think I remember reading a post here a year or so ago about an incredibly vain lich who was obsessed with keeping himself as polished and presentable as possible.

>>49669452
This is a book? I must read it.

>>49669502
We trained him wrong as a joke.

He thinks he is a zombie, he's actually just stupid.

>>49667559
This didn't get any replies, but I think it's a fucking awesome idea.

played a banshee/bard/stagediva once, her performances were drop-dead amazing. literally. she was always depressed her fanbase shrunk with each performance.

in retrospect i should have gotten outta that group sooner.

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>>49658403
Don't mind me, I'm just going to take this *yoink*

>>49647835
>sewing girls to dogs

YOU'RE A MONSTER, MR.TUCKER

>>49671114
Please do! I've always wanted to play a skeleton but haven't had a chance to play it. If others can get the chance, take it and have fun!

>>49668319
>The bull seriously hates skelingtons though
Ever since one tried to milk it one traumatic morning.

Why has nobody suggested a Brain in a Jar yet?

Demi-Lich, has lost his body and philactery and most of his power

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dare you enter the bone zone?!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VraDI-8aQ

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Well that's my cap I've been holdin' onto. Enjoy /tg/

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So guys, what kind of undead races could possibly be in this setting and which could be playable?
I'm liking the sound of some Headless Horseman bounty hunters, literal head hunters and executioners.
And how would a Death Knight work in this setting? It would be intresting to play as one of those, a reverse paladin keeping the party alive through necromancy. Hell, a Necromancer literally becomes a healer in this setting.