Reanimated skeletons come into being in a number of variable ways, typically by infusing too much magic into a given skeleton or leaving a single skeleton alone for long periods of time. The result of either of these actions is the same, the now awakened skeleton ultimately breaks free of it's mortal bonds, and rapidly begins to develop a personality of its own. A reanimated skeleton may or may not remember it's past life.
Undeath
Even though you are dead, you remain among the living. You are immune to disease and resistant to poison. You do not need to eat, drink or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish, you are considered undead in addition to your other types.
You cannot kill which is already dead: you cannot perish by normal means and effetcs that should outright kill you instead drop you to 0 Hit Points.
Instead of sleeping, you enter a sleep-like state. You do not dream; instead, you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice events as normal.
Your bones rattle as you move, imposing a disadvantage on stealth ability checks.
Your organs and muscles are long gone! You get -3 to your CON score.
Unstable joints
Your joints are stitched together by unnatural means. When you take a serious hit, you can get blown apart, but be later reassembled.
When you take a critical hit, you drop to 0 Hit Points
When you drop to 0 hitpoints, instead of rolling for death saving throws you separate in to two arms, two legs, one torso , one pelvis and one skull, which randomly scatter within a 45 foot radius of your position. While in this form you are considered stable, cannot gain or lose Hit Points but remain conscious and cannot take any other type of action other than ones related to speech or resting, your voice generates from where your skull is.
Once your body parts have been retrived and re-located in roughly the same space no bigger than 5 feet, you can spend one action to reassemble yourself: you regain half your maximum Hit Points rounded down, you can use this feature once per short rest.
In the event that of one of your bones gets destroyed, you can replace it with one bone of the same type belonging to the same race as you. This also works while reassembling yourself.
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