Undead creatures and encounters
Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ ...
The ogre steps forward with a lop-sided gait. As it approaches, it rises up, revealing it is actually an abomination of ogre torsos held together by necromantic power._ Special torments await the depraved souls that devised these unholy, undead ...
This skeleton’s bones are crystal and caked with layers of frost and ice._ **Origin.** Glacial corrupters are similar in nature to most Open Game License
A roughly humanoid figure composed of thick, greenish-gray fog steps out of the darkness. Its eyes are smoldering orange orbs, and yellow embers trail behind it as it moves forward, burning the very air with its passage._ **Spirits of Vengeance ...
The eyes and ears of undead armies, darakhul spies originate from all nations and backgrounds. **Masters of Disguise.** Darakhul spies are rarely without a slew of disguises, including wigs, colored pastes, cosmetics, and clothing appropriate fo...
Leaders of law enforcement units in undead cities, darakhul captains are stoic and steely darakhul hand-selected by the city’s leadership for the role. _**Patrol Teams.**_ When on patrol, darakhul captains ride Open Game License
This inky black cloud exudes a terrible chill and seems to tear at the soul, inducing a feeling of despondency and loneliness._ **Despair Given Form.** Incarnate glooms result when a group of at least a dozen people suffer from hopelessness and ...
A grotesque human body moves like jelly. Its split-open front reveals the creature has no bones._ Husks are the opposite of Open Game License
Huge Undead, CR 10. From Creature Codex.
Small Undead, CR 1/4. From Creature Codex.
A creature wearing a black turban steps out of the sudden fog. It is roughly the size and shape of a short man, with gray skin and pointed teeth. The thing sneers as it summons lightning to its hand, the air suddenly stinking of ozone. Its stony g...
This bat has an emaciated, three-foot-long torso and a head that looks like skin stretched over bone. Its jaws are unnaturally distended, and its mouth is full of needle-like teeth. Ghoul bats are popular messengers and pets amongst darakhul and c...
Large Undead, CR 3. From Creature Codex.
The creature stands amid a baying crowd, swathed in rags topped by a horse’s skull. It brandishes a halberd made of shadow and hisses, “Come forth and be judged!”_ **Strange Great Sins.** In small villages on a festival eve, one villager plays t...
Medium Undead, CR 6. From Creature Codex.
Large Undead, CR 4. From Creature Codex.
Large Undead, CR 11. From Creature Codex.
The vague outline of a tortured being flickers, appearing as though it may have once been human. Its face is composed of many faces, and its expressions shift rapidly from madness to anger to pain. Its features change from one moment to the next, ...
Medium Undead, CR 8. From Creature Codex.
This horrifying apparition is the disturbing amalgam of a funerary shroud and a set of absurdly large floating teeth. The creature has a roughly humanoid form and clacks its teeth together with terrible ferocity._ **Ghosts with Teeth.** A fleshs...
This waterlogged humanoid is partially rotting and has plant matter, including a trio of whipping vines, infused in its body._ **Drowned Dead.** Marsh dires are the animated remains of humanoids who drowned in marshlands, weighted down by muck a...
This ghostly humanoid’s hands end in frozen claws. Water drips from the claws, freezing before it hits the ground._ **Forlorn Spirits.** Chill haunts arise from the corpses of humanoids that froze to death. While most chill haunts derive from th...
A skeletal mare speaks in constant rhyme, its jaws moving as if something were puppeteering it._ **Unwelcome Lodger.** A mari lwyd seeks entry into a home, where it demands to be treated as if it were a guest. Though it doesn’t require food, dri...
This flying creature looks like the disembodied skin of a once-living person. Its mouth is twisted into a tortured scream, and its eyes gleam a baleful blue._ **Tortured to Death.** Flayed wraiths come into being when certain dark energies are p...