Actually, come to think of it, do they even have Zombie Lords or did all of them rot into Skeleton Champions (Bone Troopers) by now?
I keep seeing "corpsefolk" mentioned in various places, but I haven't seen them actually written up anywhere yet. I'm not sure if that's the same as zombie lords or not. Based on how they're used/described, they appear to be intelligent zombies. Is that the same thing?
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While no rules exist for corpsefolk yet, my expectation is that they will be a watered down version of some zombie variant. Namely, that this would be the species that players could use to play undead creatures easily. Adding templates to base creatures makes them more powerful than their base races, so adding a zombie or skeleton template wouldn't work, thus, corpsefolk.
Granted, that species name is vague enough that it may even turn into a template too. Vesk Corpsefolk? Maybe. Elebrian Corpsefolk? Absolutely. I am interested to see if they do make this into a player option, as corpsefolk is just passive-sounding enough that I doubt it's an antagonistic species by default.
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I keep seeing "corpsefolk" mentioned in various places, but I haven't seen them actually written up anywhere yet. I'm not sure if that's the same as zombie lords or not. Based on how they're used/described, they appear to be intelligent zombies. Is that the same thing?
It seems like they are this is what the PFSRD says about zombie lords,
"Zombie lords are the fleshy counterparts of skeletal champions—intelligent, cunning, and envious of creatures whose bodies aren’t rotting away. Despite their decaying flesh, they are not slow like common zombies, and can easily pursue fleeing prey. Zombie lords are more powerful than common zombies and retain their class levels."
DS3 contains this line, "a corpsefolk— an undead zombie that retains its intelligence and personality—named [Spoiler] also hates [Spoiler]. So it seems like yes, corpsefolk and zombie lords are much the same.
Granted, that species name is vague enough that it may even turn into a template too. Vesk Corpsefolk? Maybe. Elebrian Corpsefolk? Absolutely. I am interested to see if they do make this into a player option, as corpsefolk is just passive-sounding enough that I doubt it's an antagonistic species by default.
DS3 seems to think that corpsefolk is its own distinct race/thing because the stat blocks say things like, "(N male corpsefolk)" versus a template graft creature like a bone trooper which has the stat line "(NE female elebrian bone trooper envoy)" or for ghoul "(LN female human ghoul)"
I definitely think corpsefolk are going to be the undead playable race in Pact Worlds.
I thought the OP was talking about me... LOL.