Playing as an Undead in D&D?

>>50095464
>I've been playing D&D for about a year now so I think I finally know what I'm doing

And yet you apparently didn't think it worth mentioning what edition you are playing.

If you're doing 5e then you basically described the Revenant, so do that if your GM doesn't mind.

>>50095464
If you play an undead, play it properly.
Make a skeleton and make as many skele-puns as you can.

If you're playing 3rd edition, use the Book of Vile Darkness Bone and Corpse templates instead of a straight skeleton or zombie.

>>50095574
Yes totally forgot we are indeed playing 5e lol. Thanks! I'll look into the Revenant!

>>50095629
No way dood 2spoopy4me

I have a little advice for this, though this is from a DM perspective. If the character's undead nature gives them a boon of some sort (like Undead Fortitude) I would personally take away healing from divine magic. I feel as if the radiant nature of divine healing magic would be anathema to an undead, and have no effect, or possibly adverse affect. (However magical non-divine healing, like potions would work.)

Additionally, there are some good homebrews for undead races. In terms of vampires, there is a good homebrew for a Vampire Prestige class, because becoming a vampire is really equal to class levels, in my mind.

>>50096224
You've brought up something I never considered but am now wondering.

How would one do a paladin revenant? I ask because I sort of made one for a friends game. We aren't far in, had only one session. I have a loose written backstory that he secretly did something to dishonor his family's house and then was Julius Caesar'd by his brother, then resurrected by some death god to let him seek vengeance. What's a good death deity to do this? And I mean good as in appropriate.

>>50096224
The old Positive/Negative Energy in 3.PF never seemed to work quite right.

Wasn't it that clerics would channel positive, or use a Cure spell, had to choose to either heal people or hurt undead, where both should happen?

This would destroy balance in fights against undead, certainly, but would need to be dealt with as well.

The whole thing seemed to be another hole in older D&D logic.

>>50097930
This was the whole idea of Revenants as the Raven Queen's "children" from 4e.

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>>50098997
Really? Nice. This also works for well for my character's aesthetic and alignment. Thanks friendo.