Questions tagged [undead]
For questions pertaining to entities who have attained "unnatural" life after death (as opposed to "true" life such as via resurrection). An undead character is a character who was dead, and is now animated but not truly living. The exact nature of undeath varies widely between systems, but the undead themselves are common to myriad genres and settings.
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Can a Lich with just its phylactery escape from an otherwise empty Demiplane?
I have this other question about a Lich trapped in a demiplane being contactable by sending. It mentioned as an aside that we assumed with just its body reforming, and with just its phylactery in the ...
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Can you reach a lich with Sending when it lacks a body?
So, we recently "killed" a lich, and secured its phylactery. My wizard then created a demiplane and put the phylactery in there. We expect the lich to reform near to it within the next few ...
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We destroyed a lich's phylactery right in front of his eyes, what to prepare for?
A lich gave us a task to retrieve his phylactery. When we retrieved it, we went back to the lich, and while giving the phylactery, we got into an argument among ourselves. The cleric just couldn't do ...
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Are Zombees possible?
Suppose that a necromancer has the corpses of a large number of bees (a whole swarm of them, in fact) that have been killed in such a way that it leaves the individual bee corpses intact. Is it ...
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Raise the Dead rote
How can a Raise the Dead spell can be performed in Mage the Ascension? Considering the dead the zombie-like creature from medieval fantasy settings, with no mind, but able to follow simple commands, ...
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Does an ocean or sea count as Running Water against a vampire?
The vampire stat block states (Monster Manual, p.297): Vampire Weaknesses. The vampire has the following flaws: [...] Harmed by Running Water. The vampire takes 20 acid damage if it ends its turn in ...
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How to restore a destroyed vampire as a vampire?
A vampire has been slain, i.e destroyed, through use of holy magics and substances, though the body is still intact. However, there are those who would want to restore it to its unlife, since the ...
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How does Hard to Kill ability interact with Undead PC?
Hard to Kill is a Mythic Heroes feature that says: Whenever you’re below 0 hit points, you automatically stabilize without needing to attempt a Constitution check. If you have an ability that allows ...
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Can a Vorpal Sword instakill Vecna with a natural 20 on the attack roll?
According to the instakill effect of a vorpal sword (emphasis mine): A creature is immune to this effect if it is immune to slashing damage, doesn't have or need a head, has legendary actions, or the ...
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How to introduce a dangerous looking character to the rest of the party?
So, I am running a DnD campaign, and we have another player joining. Not really in the middle of the campaign, but the party already played a few sessions without him. Now the problem is, that the new ...
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Is there any way for an undead to become temporarily living?
By "temporarily living" I mean "temporarily lose undead type and all features that come with that"? Exact use case: I want to be able to use Blood Money with my undead PC.
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What if a vampire is charmed into entering a residence
What would happen if a vampire was charmed/ordered magically to enter a residence without an invitation? For example if someone was inside a residence and used command to make the vampire approach, or ...
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Can you stake a Vampire before it turns Gaseous and floats away?
In our last combat the party fought some Vampires. Initial I said they turned to Gaseous Form. After rereading the rules, it says turning into Gaseous Form is standard action, and under Fast Healing ...
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Can the Sunburst spell kill a vampire?
The vampire has the following trait: Misty Escape. When it drops to 0 hit points outside its resting place, the vampire transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of ...
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Can I use Gentle Repose to skip dealing with a lich's phylactery?
Gentle repose has three key bits of information that interact with a lich's rejuvenation. Relevant text follows. Gentle Repose... Duration: 10 days You touch a corpse or other remains. For the ...
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