Indeed, these flavor texts were well made. Kudos, Ari! Can't wait to read Heroes of Horror ...
And by the way, it's a cool Ravenloft mention you guys made in the intro of the mag. In these troubled days for Ravenloft, the smallest exposure is great :)
Joël
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I also really enjoyed the article. The flavor text was awesome. It was so awesome, I struggled through it even though I found the font difficult. The mechanics stuff was good, too - some interesting and creative methods of spawning undead outside of the obvious spells.
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some interesting and creative methods of spawning undead outside of the obvious spells.
Exactly! Every memorable undead in any book/movie/game has had a great "origin story" for lack f a better term. I would be interested to see another article like this detailing some of the more rare undead, like the atropal scion from LM.
I agree. It was the flavor text that made this article worth the read. Using the iconics was another good idea. Reading about the repeated dooms and terrors of characters typically put in heroic poses was a great juxtaposition.
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I must be in the minority, then. I found the article unhelpful. It didn't contain enough unusual ideas and easy-to-use fluff for me to find much use for it in-game. I would have preferred maybe a three-article series, with these blurbs combined with short writeups for variants on the classic undead listed; for instance, after the bit about ghosts, you have a variant kind of ghost. There was an old series of Halloween articles in Dragon years ago that had just the right mix of info on the undead and stats on variants of those same undead. That would have been more useful to me.
I suggest you go purchase Libris Mortis: The Book of the Undead."
And from what I've read so far, Heroes of Horror!