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Continuation of this thread, my first undead race is looking good, thanks to the help of the likes of Goddity and kazaan. Now I want to experiment with the concept of undead(or restless dead) as player races. From the use of uniques limitations and interesting abilities, the concept and mechanics might mesh into a beautiful or grotesque creation.
With that in mind, I wonder what kind of undead(or restless dead) based races exist already (homebrew or otherwise) and what might you like to see more of. I will put some more races on here as soon as I work out the concept properly. Thank you
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Possession: Among all the ghostly abilities that a undead being can have, this is by far the most terrifying...and potentially interesting. There are many uses of possession within media and most are done in a horrific way. And now I am making a race built on it. Introducing the Latcher, the living spirit of a person dead that desperately tries to cling to this mortal plain. Kind of based on Lizz's video for hide and seek, the Latcher is a race of ghosts that possess the bodies of living people, using their new bodies to either find more bodies to possess or make a new body for themselves(like a clone of their original body, or a child).
So as most undead go, they are very different to the standard zombie and walking corpses. Looking at them mechanically, their spirit body would probably work like the phantom from the occult adventurer playtest- incorporeal only. Their main ability would be possession, allowing them use a living body(that is at 1-0 hp) as physical body, though their physical stats are still their own(hp included). Their weakness is emotionally unstable(since they are a spirits, and their powerful emotions are what keep them in the physical plain at first). This causes them to make checks against acting only according to the extremes of their emotion, like anger, jealously, sorrow, or zealous. Every failure saps your wisdom, risking you going into an insane bezerk breakdown. Another strength is that, while they are in a physical body, they are not immediately destroyed when they hit 0 or lower but forced into a incorporeal form at half max health. Now getting blasted in this form will destroy you and not having a body will result in daily checks against losing wisdom and going insane, losing charisma and being destroyed or losing inteligence being left a mindless, memory less spirit until you inevitably fade completely into nothing.