Humanoid zombies usually serve as guardians, servants, or soldiers for evil magic-users. In rare cases, foul magic might result in widespread reanimation of the dead, unleashing hordes of zombies to terrorize the living.

Zombies

Zombies are unthinking, reanimated corpses, often gruesomely marred by decay and lethal traumas. They serve whatever supernatural force animates them—typically evil necromancers or fiendish spirits. Zombies are relentless, merciless, and resilient, and their dead flesh can carry on even after suffering grievous wounds. While they can follow simple orders, they rely on primal drives rather than thought. They fulfill commands by working tirelessly or battering through foes, but they are easily stymied by barriers or unexpected circumstances.

Zombies are usually created from Humanoid corpses, but the remains of other creatures can also become zombies. Such monstrous zombies might possess the strength they had in life or a measure of their supernatural abilities, but they employ such abilities haphazardly at best.



New Condition: Latched-Onto. This alternative to the grappled condition halves the target’s speed, and the zombie can’t drag the target. Additionally, the subject can attempt to escape all latched-on zombies with a single grapple check. Each zombie opposes the escape attempt with its own Strength (Athletics) check, losing its grasp on the subject with a failure.

New Disease: Gift of Dead Lord. A creature that dies while infected immediately rises as a zombie with 1 hit point.