Homebrew ZOMBIE Species Details

 Zombie

"You think just because I'm undead, I want to eat your brains? Why the hell would I do that? There's no calories in the brain of an idiot!"

-Stephan Steele, zombie paladin, to a racist human knight

Physical Description

Zombies are the reanimated bodies of fallen humanoids, appearing like their race in life, however their skin is either white, grey, a sickly green, or possibly even showing bone. Their bodies may appear either exactly like a living one of their race but with the differing skin, or may be almost unrecognizable from how mangled it is.

History

As long as there has been humanoids, there has been those dying. The dead sometimes rise, however, either from a necromancer bringing them back, magical energies left in the area, or some other effect bringing the bodies of what was once-dead back to life.

Society & Relationships

The undead do not have their own societies, and typically try to live in whatever society they had previously been in. However, some zombies have been known to travel together in groups, either as a hunting pack to consume the minds of intelligent humanoids, or just to defend themselves from those who would deem them as monsters.

 Zombie Personality

You can use the Zombie Quirks table to determine a personality quirk for a zombie character or to inspire how your character might act.

Zombie Quirks

d8	Quirks
1	I call people 'so cute I could eat them up', and sometimes really mean it.
2	I have a shallow appreciation for life, just assuming people can be undead easily.
3	I have forgotten what pain is, and don't care for those suffering it.
4	Sometimes, I still indulge in life's daily pleasures, even though I do not need to anymore.
5	I wish all of my friends were undead, like me, so we can live forever together.
6	My eyes don't work as well in death, so I use my other senses, like smell, to see.
7	I shower 10 times a day because I hate how my flesh smells.
8	I constantly am wearing very covering clothing, so people will not see I am undead.

Zombie Names

Zombies either create names from themselves, in their native tongue, or they may use the name they had in life.

ZOMBIE Traits

You think just because I'm undead, I want to eat your brains? Why the hell would I do that? There's no calories in the brain of an idiot

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increase by 2.

Age

Zombies do not age at all, due to already being dead, however if their body is not well-kept they can start to rot.

Alignment

Zombies range from any alignment, such as being good for seeing their undeath as a chance at life again, or their death being unjust and wanting revenge.

Size

Zombies can be from any humanoid, ranging from the shortest human to the tallest goliath. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25.

Darkvision

Your sight has been restored by necromancy, giving you unnaturally sharp vision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Undead Fortitude

If damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 plus the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, you are reduced to 1 hit point, instead.

Undead

You are considered undead for effects such as turn undead and many healing spells. You are immune to disease and the poisoned condition, and you have resistance to poison damage. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food or drink if you wish. Instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state, but resting in this way is otherwise identical to sleeping. Magically induced sleep can cause you to enter this inactive state.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Notongue, and one language of your choice. Notongue is the language of the undead, which sounds like the creaking and cracking of bones, and is spoken by almost all undead.