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They are also not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability drain, or energy drain. Most Dungeons & Dragons undead can be "turned" (driven away) or destroyed by a good cleric, [9]: 193–194 and rebuked (forced to cower) or bolstered by an evil cleric. In the game's fourth edition, "Undead" is a keyword, rather than a creature type.
For the original D&D rule set, the lich was introduced in its first supplement, Greyhawk (1975). [3] [6] It is described simply as a skeletal monster that was formerly a magic-user or a magic-user/cleric in life and retains those abilities, able to send lower-level characters fleeing in fear.
Old Norse draugr is defined by Guðbrandur Vigfússon and Richard Cleasby as "a ghost, spirit, esp. the dead inhabitant of a cairn". [4] Often the draugr is regarded not so much as a ghost but a revenant, [5] i.e., the reanimated corpse of the deceased inside the burial mound [6] (as in the example of Kárr inn gamli in Grettis saga).
Tales from the Yawning Portal is an anthology of updated modules and adventures from previous editions. [1] The modules are modified to use the fifth edition rules, and adjusted to match differing levels of player characters, [2] so that the adventures can be played in the order they are presented in the book, or dropped into a home campaign.
The new module was announced in June 2017 during the Stream of Annihilation livestreamed event on the Wizards of the Coast's Twitch site. [6] Tomb of Annihilation was released on September 8, 2017 as a 256-page hardcover book.
In the Dungeons & Dragons game, magic is a force of nature and a part of the world. Since the publication of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1977), magic has typically been divided into two main types: arcane, which comes from the world and universe around the caster, and divine, which is inspired from above (or below): the realms of gods and demons.
The Walking Dead: A viral disease of unknown origin. When a human is infected with wildfire, the disease will infect all cells and lay dormant until the host dies. After the victim's clinical death, the host will be reanimated and exhibit zombie-like behavior. However the disease will only activate lower brain function, mostly those controlled ...
In fictional settings such as Dungeons & Dragons, or fantasy video games, necromancy is associated with the reanimation of corpses often meant to be used as weapons. This tradition appears to combine associations of conjuring the dead from European and Mediterranean traditions with elements involving Zombies that seem to derive from Caribbean ...