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I ran a game where all the players were undead... it was weird more because it was set in Eox, so no air, that made more problems than not, but it is doable though given how undead are you kind of have to take a lot more thought in every encounter
many CR monsters are no longer a match or a danger to the PCs
others are much more dangerous
PCs while they have many more immunities are also much more fragile (destroyed at 0hp instead of dying at -con for example) and once dead it much harder to bring back
the biggest thing is to make sure that the players are ok with one being undead, i'd recomend that you don't have a mixed live/undead party since the undead characters will outshine the living ones
... brains?
Right I was wandering the wast wastelands that is my brain, as is often the case when one is supposed to be working and I stumbled upon a thought; that in the right campaign situations one could have a player/ers play on as a undead?
Has anyone had experience of this and/or reasons that this should be out of the question?
I had a character, who became undead. Whether it was good or bad for the campaign is hard to tell. It happened at first session (GM intervention, due to lucky perception check and unlucky Disable Device check, rather than just killing me). The consequence when the plot-dealing NPC tried to kill me, was that the group-sided with me. We got entirely derailed from the intended plot, but it became an great story when the party instead set out to find a cure for my condition.
I've had a fellow PC become undead as well during our Crimson Trone game. I was an elegant alternative to force a new character upon him.
Overall I believe it can work fairly well. Depending on the undead type you are looking at, balance can be a concern, but that is managable.
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Alternatively, there are races and class features which cause PCs to be healed by negative energy as were they undead. So an "undeadish" party is also an option to test the water for a full-on undead game.
I have had people use the 3.x PrC emancipated spawn to do exactly this. It sorta worked ok.
Like the others have said, it is difficult to tell what will or will not be an appropriate encounter.
Alot of things that seemed tough for a standard party are very easy for an undead. Poison trap.
Also alot of things that shouldn't have been a problem now are. Walking into a shop to buy supplies.
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He GMed an all-undead party for the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path. They had a blast.
Found the threat for you here
There are spoilers in that thread for the AP. It's a campaign journal. Hopefully you'll find inspiration there.
I had a character turn undead in a campaign, due to another character being replaced with a Doppelganger and murdering me when i was already on the verge of death because my character knew his secret.. Shoved a bottle of black lotus extract down my throat , which is not good considering I already had a 10 con when it happened.
I came back a few sessions later a ghost, after my soul was released by a dark shadowy "god" (My character's soul never made it to the afterlife, and since my character was a crafty beguiler, she made a deal with this figure to be brought back to the Prime material as a ghost) However I came back as an antagonist to the party. I was kinda miffed in that game because my secondary character, a bard, was ALSO murdered by this doppelganger, although that was more bad luck. I was the closest one to him when he changed during a climactic battle against him. We had some crazy stuff happen during that campaign... He was a Were-Dragon/Doppelganger, and before you get on about the were-dragonness, it was from crazy experiments by the wizard bottling the essences of dragons and lycanthropes and creating a new disease which shouldn't have worked but did.
Anyway I was somewhat overpowered for this campaign as a PC, which is why I came back as a bad guy, until the party could find some way to appease my soul, as well as get me out of the deal i had made with the false god. It was kind of fun. sadly that campaign never really finished.