Homebrew Zombie Species Details

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution Score increases by 2, and your Dexterity and Charisma Scores decrease by 1.

Age

Zombies can live for any span of time, as long as the means that keeps them reanimated continue to function.

Alignment

Non-sentient zombies are neutral evil, but sentient zombies can be any alignment

Size

You are Medium.

Darkvision

You have 60 ft of darkvision.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 20 feet.

Undead Anatomy
Your creature type is Undead. You do not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep- and cannot be compelled to sleep by any means. To gain the benefit of a long rest, you may spend 8 hours doing light activity. You smell of death, but wearing more layers of clothing, or using perfume or incense will dull the stench.

Undead Fortitude
You have advantage on death saving throws, and regain 1 hp after three death saving throw successes. You have resistance to poison damage, and advantage on saves to resist being poisoned.

Past Life
Pick a racial feat of your base race to replace for this one.

Languages
You speak Common, Undercommon, and one language of your choice

Zombie Traits

As a zombie, you are not bound by the constraints of the living, but every zombie is unique and carries a racial trait from when it was truly alive.