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Portrait of the Zombie
Creature · Built-in

Zombie

Medium Undead, unaligned

  • Low difficulty
  • CR 1/4
  • Melee

A shambling corpse that keeps coming until something destroys the spark that moves it.

Statistics

Armor Class
8
Hit Points
22 (3d8 + 9)
Speed
Walk 20 ft
Challenge
CR 1/4 · 50 XP
Size
Medium — Takes one map cell: most people and wolves.
Saving throws
WIS +0
Senses
Darkvision 60 ft
Languages
Understands the languages it knew in life
STR13+1
DEX6−2
CON16+3
INT3−4
WIS6−2
CHA5−3

Attacks

Slam Melee

+3 to hit · Reach 5 ft (1 map cell)

Damage: 1d6 + 1 bludgeoning

Abilities

Unwilling to Fall At will

GM guidance: rotten flesh shrugs off blows that would drop a living body. When a hit would drop it, the GM may call for a Constitution save to leave it at 1 hit point; holy light or a critical hit ends it for good.

Defenses

Immunities
Poison

Environment & tags

Environments
Ruins, Dungeon, Swamp, Graveyard
Groups
Undead, Swamp
Tags
undead, grave