l wish undead player races were a option. like imagin the roll play possabilitys of being a reanimated corpse. maybe you refused to leave your body and rise to kill your killer. maybe you were a necromancers first reanimated corpse,but something went wrong and you are fully under your own control,or maybe you serve your new master till you can find a way to break your "chains".
also for higher levels,vampire and lich race?
l doubt this will ever happen,cause of balance and whatever,but l still think it would be cool to not have to give your player sheet to the dm and become a npc after going thru all the trouble to become a lich,or have to turn on the party because you got bitten and turned by a vampire.
(l know there is likely homebrew races and stats and stuff,but something offical would be great!)
Edit: Some time after posting this in May 2020, the gothic lineages came out, adding dampires and reborn. This is almost exactly what I wanted, so I'm content,for now.
There used to be a UA for this kind of thing. You could be Human Revenant. Although it was "Human", I don't know why it couldn't apply to other races well.
The UA is from 2016 however, and I don't know if it was ever made official, but you could either use it as is or use it as a base to brew an undead subrace of your own.
You can, check out the options under lineages, you can play as a Dhampir which is as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one. You can also play as a reborn which is basically a reanimated corpse with some memories.
One of my characters is a Dhampir Rogue called Mighlo.
You can, check out the options under lineages, you can play as a Dhampir which is as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one. You can also play as a reborn which is basically a reanimated corpse with some memories.
One of my characters is a Dhampir Rogue called Mighlo.
You can, check out the options under lineages, you can play as a Dhampir which is as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one. You can also play as a reborn which is basically a reanimated corpse with some memories.
One of my characters is a Dhampir Rogue called Mighlo.
If there is UA involved then i suggest the Reborn Lineage
1: Yes, now that it's been almost 2 years since posting this, the gothic lineages are now a option, thank you for pointing that out. (Only half sarcastic, fyi)
2: It's not UA anymore, it's official, and I already have it/them.
I'm keen to play as an uneasy, and this thread had been awesome but I'm not sure how a lineage, i.e. reborn, differ from a race? I thought it was pretty simple, but I can't seem to select a race and lineage in the character creation.
You can, check out the options under lineages, you can play as a Dhampir which is as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one. You can also play as a reborn which is basically a reanimated corpse with some memories.
One of my characters is a Dhampir Rogue called Mighlo.
What would happen if an undead cleric cast Turn Undead?
Dhampir, Reborn etc are not technically undead so Turn Undead does nothing to them. I think this is likely because if they were undead then spells such as Cure Wounds wouldn't work on them and other spells, such as Chill Touch and Protection form Evil and Good, would have additional effects that a DM would need to consider.
As a little aside, there is a table in the DMG for adding additional creature types onto existing creatures, notable turning them into Skeleton or Zombie variants, so as a DM i cannot see a probolem with allowing a player to return as a zombie or skeleton version of their previous race/species etc as long as they are ok with the rammifications such as Turn Undead and the previously mentioned spells.
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l wish undead player races were a option. like imagin the roll play possabilitys of being a reanimated corpse. maybe you refused to leave your body and rise to kill your killer. maybe you were a necromancers first reanimated corpse,but something went wrong and you are fully under your own control,or maybe you serve your new master till you can find a way to break your "chains".
also for higher levels,vampire and lich race?
l doubt this will ever happen,cause of balance and whatever,but l still think it would be cool to not have to give your player sheet to the dm and become a npc after going thru all the trouble to become a lich,or have to turn on the party because you got bitten and turned by a vampire.
(l know there is likely homebrew races and stats and stuff,but something offical would be great!)
Edit: Some time after posting this in May 2020, the gothic lineages came out, adding dampires and reborn. This is almost exactly what I wanted, so I'm content,for now.
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount has a "Supernatural Gift" that applies some undead qualities to your character. It's called Hollow One.
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(Warlock) The Swarm
good to know.
There used to be a UA for this kind of thing. You could be Human Revenant. Although it was "Human", I don't know why it couldn't apply to other races well.
The Revenant is a subrace.
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/gothic-heroes
The UA is from 2016 however, and I don't know if it was ever made official, but you could either use it as is or use it as a base to brew an undead subrace of your own.
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Also look at strahd’s dark gifts. Not sure if you’d call that undead, or’ I was really dead but now I’m alive again but I’m cursed’
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I'd try a variant of the Revenant rules SocialFoxes talked about, or the Hollow One.
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If there is UA involved then i suggest the Reborn Lineage
You can, check out the options under lineages, you can play as a Dhampir which is as close as you can get to being a vampire without actually being one. You can also play as a reborn which is basically a reanimated corpse with some memories.
One of my characters is a Dhampir Rogue called Mighlo.
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If anyone wanted a 'Vampire' playable race then check out https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Plane_Shift
they have links to the various magic the gathering crossovers the WOTC have done, if you look for the Ixalan pdf they have a vampire race on page 14.
The art is well done, but she looks like she is only 10 years old.
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It's a he, and he was turned into a Dhampir around 12-13 years old.
1: Yes, now that it's been almost 2 years since posting this, the gothic lineages are now a option, thank you for pointing that out. (Only half sarcastic, fyi)
2: It's not UA anymore, it's official, and I already have it/them.
I'm keen to play as an uneasy, and this thread had been awesome but I'm not sure how a lineage, i.e. reborn, differ from a race? I thought it was pretty simple, but I can't seem to select a race and lineage in the character creation.
What would happen if an undead cleric cast Turn Undead?
Can you be turned into a Dhampir? I thought you had to be born a Dhampir.
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Dhampir, Reborn etc are not technically undead so Turn Undead does nothing to them. I think this is likely because if they were undead then spells such as Cure Wounds wouldn't work on them and other spells, such as Chill Touch and Protection form Evil and Good, would have additional effects that a DM would need to consider.
As a little aside, there is a table in the DMG for adding additional creature types onto existing creatures, notable turning them into Skeleton or Zombie variants, so as a DM i cannot see a probolem with allowing a player to return as a zombie or skeleton version of their previous race/species etc as long as they are ok with the rammifications such as Turn Undead and the previously mentioned spells.
The wording of the ability indicates that it doesn't affect the caster.
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