Homebrew Zombie Species Details
You were once a simpler person, your life filled with average tasks and menial work, until you found yourself on the receiving end of a zombie's claws. however this may have happened it sure wasn't pretty. nowadays however you get by, you manage to source brains through certain means, whether that be from the newly dead or the living it doesn't matter so long as it's brains....
Though your taste buds only crave one thing you can however taste spiciness in food, granted it has to be beyond a normal person's capacity for heat, but you like it none the less. As for looks your skin and hair have dissipated in colour and all that's left of your body is a monochromatic form of what previously was there.
Zombie Traits
brain cravings, undead fortitude, darkvision, and the ability to recall memories from the brains you've eatenDarkvision
Accustom to the seclusion that being part of the zombie horde, you can see in dim light for 60 feet as though it were bright light and in darkness as though it were dim light, you cant discern colour in darkness, only colours of gray.
Ability modifiers
Both your strength and constitution scores go up by 1.
Languages
you can speak, read, and write common and one other language of your choice.
The living Dead
For spells and other such effects, a zombie is considered undead, and thus you don't require air, regular food, drink or sleep to survive.
Undead Fortitude
If damage would reduce a zombie's current hit points to 0, they must make a constitution saving throw with DC equal to half the damage taken, unless the damage is Radiant damage or a critical hit. On a successful save the zombie instead drops to 1 hit point instead of 0.
this ability can only be used once per day, and resets at dawn.
Cranium Cravings
The only type of sustenance you require is that of brains. 1 brain is enough to last you an entire week, however if you go a week without eating a single full brain your body begins to deteriorate, you take 1 hit dice worth of necrotic damage and your maximum health is reduced by that damage until you eat a full brain at which point your maximum hit points will return to normal, this damage happens at dawn of each day after the week of no brains
Eaten Memories
Any time after eating a brain you can twice per day choose to attempt to recall something that the brain you ate knew, to do this you roll [roll]1d100[/roll] and if the result is higher than 75 you succeed and gain advantage on any intelligence rolls pertaining to the knowledge you recall.
This ability resets at dawn.