2023年7月26日 · Undead Mages: (Nothing stopping you from giving a skeleton one cantrip to get a CR 1/4 skeleton mage.) (For stronger skeletal mages, use the NPC stat blocks as a baseline.) Bone Naga, CR 4, usually tasked to guard a location. Being undead, they don't need to take breaks when doing so.

2023年7月26日 · Undead Mages: (Nothing stopping you from giving a skeleton one cantrip to get a CR 1/4 skeleton mage.) (For stronger skeletal mages, use the NPC stat blocks as a baseline.) Bone Naga, CR 4, usually tasked to guard a location. Being undead, they don't need to take breaks when doing so.

2018年11月22日 · However, other than specific spell, effects and items which affect undead different, merely being undead has no inherent effects of its own (D&D 5e Monster Manual, page 6): Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of a particular type.

2015年4月8日 · There are also spells that can either pseudo-heal or heal without the undead restriction; Aid, False Life, Heroism, Vampiric Touch, Aura of Vitality, Aura of Life, and Regenerate are examples. Personally, I think this play style is both fine and viable in 5e. Remember that being undead isn't just a negative.

2016年4月11日 · There's no general rule on undead: either the Frightened condition (PHB Appendix A) or the Monster Manual's section on undead (MM pp.6-7, "Types") would be the places to look. But each specific undead's stat-block describes whether it is immune to the Frightened condition.

More debuff-oriented spells can depend a lot on saves, which honestly varies a lot even among undead. A quick survey of some common undead grunts (zombies, skeletons, ghasts, and ghouls) has low CHA pretty much across the board, and mental scores in general. Slow can be pretty tasty, as can Tasha's Hideous Laughter.

Technically, you can feeblemind any undead to make them capturable, and since it gives them a -5 ability score modifier for all the future saves against feeblemind (and natural 20s on saves aren't always successful in 5e), that can make the effect de facto permanent -- that is to say, for example, if you reduce the target to rolling Int saves ...

2019年2月20日 · Undead include walking corpses, such as vampires and zombies, as well as bodiless spirits, such as ghosts and specters. Because 5th edition doesn't specify whether all undead do or do not have souls, the restriction would vary by the specific creature. In other words, a DM could reasonably make a homebrew undead that has its own soul.

2021年5月5日 · There are plane-specific undead like Death Knight which speaks the corresponding language (Abyssal in this case). Most undead usually understand or speak Common. Since Favored Enemy still has to grant additional language proficiency, the player is usually free to choose any non-secret language people in the game world speak.

2018年2月25日 · Having run a couple undead heavy one-shots with it, I'm rather pleased with the sheer responsiveness of the class. Your biggest advantages are Turn Undead and the access to radiant damage (which has some niche funtionality against zombies, vampires, and some other undead). You do miss out on attack rolls if you go with a casting cleric.