epic.

What does the 4 before (1d6+1) meen? #Newbie over here!

I feel this would be a good variant: Undead Fortitude can only be used up to 4/day, but if they fail they can use it on their next turn to get back up to 1hp. Really fits with the whole "I won't die yet" vibe they have going, without making them so variable in power. Think they would have the same CR too.

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My party and I were doing a low-level campaign. Our party split when the Paladin and Monk went looking for wild weapon shops. The cleric, blood hunter, sorcerer and bard all decided it would be smart to walk into a zombie infested tower. They were swarmed, the sorcerer disengaged, the cleric healed the bard, disengaged, but couldn't get away with 25 feet. He fell unconscious, the blood hunter grabbed the cleric and bolted. That left the bard all alone... didn't see him again.

(Btw I played the Dwarven Cleric).

 R.i.p bard. Rude

@MonaLisaSmiley - The 4 is the 'average' score of a 1d6+1 roll. i.e., average of a d6 is 3,plus 1 = 4. So you can either roll the 1d6+! damage each time, or just use 4 as the damage to make things go a little faster.

I played a group of these with a flameskull in Wave Echo Cave (reskinned) and they were surprsingly effective and fun! The Undead Fortitude trait can keep going, over and over, and for our party it gave the flavour of an unkillable horror. What started as, "Pfft, zombies," ended with the a stabbed, flaming, frozen undead body slamming against the party, and dramatic on-the-table CON saves to see if the zed survived the latest death blow.

That zombie will go down in our table's history. They joked about trying to keep him as their own personal protection.

(Love you, The Outsiders!)

that zombie look gross. I like it did you draw that

I’d say Fiends are better than undead generally speaking.