Undead stats and attributes

The most common undead are skeletons, as well as wights, zombies, ghouls, and liches. Undead need no food, rest, water, or even air, but cannot heal wounds or regain vigor, and gain no experience points or levels as they feel neither passion nor joy. Much like the cursed, undead are vulnerable to silver items and weapons.

Skeleton

HD: 1

Found: 1d6-1 with a necromancer or in long-neglected crypts and ruins

Appearance: human bones, marked as a product of necromancy by the ghostly blue flames burning from within the eye sockets.

Voice: clattering and crackling of bones against one another, muffled only by long-decayed garments

Wants: to obey the most recent command or protect the dead from desecration

Morality: pure obedience

Tactics: decently varied

Attack: +2

Defense: +2

Speed: +1

Attacks

1. Old, rusted weapon from life.
2. Unarmed attack at +1 damage.

Collapses when it takes a wound.

Elven skeleton

HD: 4

Found: solitary with powerful, well-travelled necromancers

Appearance: unnaturally slender bones, glowing with a darkness that consumes nearby light. The fires in its eyes are the only light that exists around it.

Voice: echoing, empty, and faint

Wants: to obey last command or destroy beauty

Tactics: complex and considered

Attack: +4

Defense: +1

Speed: +5

Attacks

1. Umbral claw: heavy damage
2. Gravelight: flare of darkness, dealing 2d6 damage to living enemies nearby. Paralyzes nearby undead for one round, including elven skeletons.
3. Elven blade: roll for magic weapon

Giant skeleton

HD: 7

Found: solitary, at the tops of the oldest mountains and hiding within the most powerful clouds

Appearance: massive stone skeleton, broad and heavy of frame

Voice: clashing of stone, roaring of storms, oddly contemplative

Wants: to obey the last command or crush the works of humans, and learn

Morality: obedience and curiosity

Tactics: carefully considered

Attack: +6

Defense: +6

Speed: -4

Attacks

1. Crush: heavy damage
2. Giant weaponry: 2d6 damage

Insanely heavy, will crush anything it stands on other than solid stone or similarly sturdy ground.

Wight

Known to anyone who recognizes necromancy as the servants of its practitioners, by the shriveled skin, burning blue eyes, and dry rasping voice. They have no personality of their own and barely remember their previous life, now fully devoted to the necromancer who raised them. Physical attributes and skills are identical to the person in life, including speech, languages, and class techniques, but has no magical abilities of any kind without a soul. Becomes incapable of meaningful action after three wounds.

Zombie

HD: 2

Found: at the site of a horrible curse

Appearance: decayed and cursed, but not usually extremely old. Sometimes still wearing their clothes from life, and may carry tools or weapons that they no longer remember how to use.

Voice: dull groaning without intent

Wants: to bite or infect the living, dig up corpses

Morality: hunger

Tactics: dull

Attack: +1

Defense: 0

Speed: -2

Attacks

1. Bite: light damage, +1 for each additional zombie in melee

Anyone bitten by a zombie will turn into one, either quickly, gradually, or after natural death, depending on the curse.

Ghoul

HD: 2

Found: in old graveyards and on recent battlefields

Appearance: deformed as if starved, but beyond all natural capacity. Sunken eyes and distended teeth, cracked and sharpened against the bones of the dead.

Voice: shrill and cackling, frequent coughing

Wants: to eat the recently dead

Morality: selfish

Tactics: tricky

Attack: +2

Defense: +1

Speed: +2

Attacks

1. Claw: light damage + save vs stun
2. Bite: light damage, targets vulnerable foes

Lich

When a master necromancer obtains a Soul Talisman, they can use their dark magics in a ritual suicide to trap their own soul within. They can also do this to another, but this is rare as the lich to be must be killed, and can later kill the necromancer to secure their own immortality. As long as the Soul Talisman remains intact, the lich cannot die, their slain body simply regenerating or being remade. If the Talisman is kept far from the lich, their body will become lifeless and immobile until reunited. While the lich is trapped within their Talisman in this way, they can reform a new body, causing the old to be engulfed in cursed green flames and creating a new form over the course of a week.