Homebrew Zombie Species Details

It stood before the window, cloaked by pale moonlight. In the dead of winter its breath fails to fog, their clothes hardly acceptable for the chill. Their hair is mangled and falling out in various places, their face petrified in an eternal mixture between anguish and malice.

One. Two. Three. Three arrows to the chest and the monster fails to falter, still shambling forward. They bring up an ancient axe in their gangrenous hands and bring down a killing blow upon the elven archer that had spotted them.

The beast, this unholy undead, successfully defended its master's home, and now... they had another body to add to the ranks.

-Marckus Denolian, Critically Acclaimed Heteromorph Researcher

Back From The Afterlife
You used to be alive, used to be human. At some point you died and were resurrected to serve some sort of dark power. Some continue to serve their masters, eternal slaves to their will. Others outgrow or even overthrow them, choosing to continue their lives while attempting to cope with that insatiable hunger.

No Home For The Wicked
Like almost all undead, you no longer have a place to genuinely call your home. Zombies free from the shackles of necromancers aimlessly wander the earth, searching for a purpose while desperately hiding their appearance from the living. Those who still serve may live in a necromancer's lair, but they are merely nothing more than servants kept wandering in a secluded space.

Zombie Names
Most Zombies that still possess a will of their own choose to use the name they were given in life, otherwise they simply use nicknames or unit names given to them by their masters.

Zombie Traits

As a spawn of undeath, you gain the following features:

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age

Zombies do not age, instead maintaining the state they were in when they died and slowly decaying over time.

Alignment

Zombies are typically Neutral, as they almost always only serve their own whims or those of their master. Zombies that serve are almost always Evil, while those who are independent lean more towards Neutral or Good.

Size

Zombies are either Small or Medium size, depending on what race they were in life.

Speed

Your movement speed is also dependent on what race you were in life.

Languages

You know whatever languages your race knew in life.

(if your living race (i.e human) only provides two languages, leave the 3rd box blank.)

Darkvision

Due to your time in tombs and caves along with your natural ties to darkness, you possess Darkvision up to 60ft.

Undead Fortitude.

You do not require food, water, or even air to survive and are immune to disease. When you sleep you instead remain in an idle state for 6 hours, appearing inert but remaining conscious and aware of your surroundings, and cannot be put to sleep magically.

Necrotic Soul

As an undead being, you thrive off of dark magic. You possess resistance to Necrotic damage but gain vulnerability to Radiant damage.