Another one is Champions, especially later editions. One of the bigger threats is a lich.

Index Card RPGs' setting Ghost Mountain let's you play as a Muertos,basically a raised skeleton.

Charisma takes a big hit tho.

One of the player's in my long running Dungeon's Unleashed campaign play(ed) a skeleton.
His backstory was he put on some cursed armor that basically killed him, and brought him back. He can't take it off.

There's no specific rule support or lore for that in the playtest materials I've shared publicly. Mostly you just make up Talents that suit your concept and rate them with an intent. So he just took an 2-undead [Defensive] and we noted there would be some drawbacks to this and we left it at that

There is a lot of Undead stuff that has taken place in that campaign world. The County of Ebilith is "the land of the necromancers." Typically the dead / undead are viewed as a family resource -- so you might be in charge of your dead 3rd cousin who has been helping you in your carpentry shop for the past 8 years.

Of course there is an evil necromancer too, just like there are good ones.

Quote from: Thondor on November 21, 2024, 09:12:06 PMOne of the player's in my long running Dungeon's Unleashed campaign play(ed) a skeleton.
His backstory was he put on some cursed armor that basically killed him, and brought him back. He can't take it off.

There's no specific rule support or lore for that in the playtest materials I've shared publicly. Mostly you just make up Talents that suit your concept and rate them with an intent. So he just took an 2-undead [Defensive] and we noted there would be some drawbacks to this and we left it at that

There is a lot of Undead stuff that has taken place in that campaign world. The County of Ebilith is "the land of the necromancers." Typically the dead / undead are viewed as a family resource -- so you might be in charge of your dead 3rd cousin who has been helping you in your carpentry shop for the past 8 years.

Of course there is an evil necromancer too, just like there are good ones.

That's my thinking too.

I'm basing this whole request on three things.  The video game RPG Divinity Original Sin 2 that has skeleton as a playable race, although you get a magic mask to wear so you can appear human.  The other two are anime.  Skeleton Knight in Another World, and Ainz Ooal Goan from Overlord.   Both are Japanese guys who get transported/Isekai'ed to a real life fantasy world, but as their video game characters.

I also agree that it would be super easy to just home brew your own race.  Like you, just curse a guy to be undead, but with free will and 100% intelligence somehow.  Bonuses of not breathing or affected by extreme temperatures, with the flaw of being monstrous and killed on sight by the majority of people.  Keep your helmet closed, or learn illusion magic. 

As for "good" necromancers, that's another discussion, and made me chuckle.  I'm not so sure, but I will listen to arguments about good guy necromancers. 

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