How dangerous are your zombies?

>>52099199
Depends on whether the soul possessing them is just some hungry animal spirit that can barely control the body, or the spirit of a famous warrior who's been dead, but TRAINING, for thousands of years

>>52099199
Dangerous Zombie is a sexy motherfucker. Also, props to you for using the name like that.

>>52099247
Bind a powerful soul to even the body of a small child and the result will be quite fearsome. But split it up and you could potentially power an army of undead warriors with it, and quantity has a quality all its own.

>>52099369
>Take the soul of a powerful warrior who has mastered all forms of battle
>Split it into the extreme disciplines
>Place the souls into undead
>Have a mini boss squad of master warriros in various methods.

>>52099199
Depends on the presence of necromancers and the strength of the veil in the vicinity.

If there is a necromancer present and the veil is frayed, they're as fast and strong as a regular human, but with no pain threshold or human vulnerabilities.

If there is no necromancer present and the veil is strong, they're shambling weaklings.

>>52099199
They are Death! Crush! Dangerous!

It greatly depends upon the amount and power of negative divine energy that makes up them, how arcanely reinforced they are and the proximity to other undead particualy death knights.

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>>52099593
Are they a crisis of death?

>>52099389
>Every Zombie represents a different aspect of the master warriors personality.

>>52099635
>>52099199
Is he the survival horror Kamen Rider?

>>52099691
Yes

>>52099718
I've got to catch up on Ex-Aide.

>>52099718
That's fucking cool.

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>>52099731
I'd recommend that.

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>>52099750
Ex-Aid is cool

>>52099783
Does Ex-Aid have any hype as fuck songs? Shit like https://youtu.be/usR36pAwAaw?

>>52099810
Can't say anything in particular, don't really notice background music much, but it's got a lot of catchy jingles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTnl_s3hNF8

>>52099199
Depends on the source of magic that is animating them.

If it's a residual psychic echo, as are commonly found in places where a massive emotional trauma took place, it's typically a sluggish yet single-mindedly aggressive construct that is more scary than it is dangerous.

When it's powered by either an open Demonic Incursion or a powerful necromancer, however, they can be insanely fast and resilient creatures that can actively regenerate wounds, with claws that are poisoned now only with necrotic toxins but magical diseases in many cases. Some are even capable commanders in their own right, acting as magically "relays" and possessing limited independence of their controlling source, and can direct subordinates in complex tactical maneuvers so long as it lives.

Magic, in this setting, is a highly "personal" affair, in that how a person harnesses magic is completely unique to them. While there are rituals and spells and techniques that are universally applicable, the same spell used by different users will often have noticeably different side-effects or cosmetic differences (most commonly seen with magically-thrown fire being a wide variety of colors depending on the person who throws it). A zombie will act differently depending on its control source and how much magical energy it has been individually imbued with.

>>52099199
I'm playing around in John Ringo's Black Tide universe (homebrew), so very, especially if you get mobbed.

Don't get bit, don't catch the flu, and for the love of God make sure you're using a round that starts with .4, or you is gonna become a Zed.

>>52099199
They're slow but move as a general mass only ever growing. You can't possibly keep running forever, and when you do, they're only ever a few days away

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Completely harmless. They mostly just wander the countryside, sad and mournful, complaining about the sun being too bright or how they can't feel their legs. They are most commonly found around the ruins of long abandoned houses and are completely nonreactive to the living world. If you try to talk to one, it won't hear you, if you push one, it'll get right back up and continue like nothing ever happened. The townsfolk leave them be and pretend they're not there. It's considered bad luck to pester them.

>>52099199
Depends on how skilled the wizards and scientists creating them are, but it goes from "level 0 thing you can just mow through" to "walls of badassery employed as not!Umbrella's Board of Directors' bodyguards."

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>>52104311
Forgot pic of top-tier undead.

>>52099199
Think of the vampire counts but the role of zombies and skeletons has been swapped. Skeletons are a hasty, expendable addition to a necromancer or vampires hoard, since only dark magic holds them up and they have no real 'frame' to hold it in they are easy to destroy, a well placed blow will break the binding holding them together. One could, in theory, equip them with armor and good weapons but the armor won't fit properly due to being designed for those who aren't just bones and they won't possess any skills they had in life. Necromancers and Vampires who raid an ancient tomb will usually strip the armor and weapons away from the skeletons they reanimate and give it to their zombies no matter how powerful the skeleton was in life.

To get decent troops, a necromancer or vampire needs ones that are reasonably fresh which is the zombie. They'll contain more skills that they had in life than any skeleton and with less magic needed to hold it all together, that magic can instead be put into making the corpse stronger. Just watch out, some vampires or necromancers have made the mistake of raising a powerful enemy just to find that the enemy is stronger than they are and able to reverse the master and slave relationship.

>>52099678
Every zombie that falls releases the soul fragment which fuses into the nearest zombie with a fragment of the same soul.

>>52099199
Kamen Rider posting is the new Jojo posting and I'm okay with that.

On topic, I'm GM'ing a Zelda campaign so the setting zombies are Redeads and thereby very dangerous.

>>52100155
>and for the love of God make sure you're using a round that starts with .4

I wish people would stop talking like they know shit about firearms or ballistics.

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Very

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Considering my zombies are Bohrok, Extremely.

depends, some corpse animated by some two bit necromancer or some plague? challenging in groups or if unprepared - a great warrior cursed with undeath by god? shit your pants scary

Not very, they're used as workforce and are perfectly integrated into society, though skeletons are better accepted for obvious smell and hygiene issues.

Depends.

The typical "scifi-rabies-infected" human rager is not very dangerous. It's basically a virus with an ineffective transmission method that creates dumb unarmed soldiers that cannot function for longer than a month.
This relegates them to bioweapons used on unorganized militias, rebels and raiders.

The real horrors are cybernetically controlled humans and revived corpses. It's like a robot army, for a fraction of the price, because all you need is to jack into the spine to take over the bodies.