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100% Crunch: Zombie Lords $4.99
Publisher: Raging Swan Press
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by Megan R. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 02/26/2013 05:07:43

Continuing the series that aims to ensure that brawling never gets boring, herein is presented a collection of zombie lords to bring undead horror to your table. Each one is fully statted up, complete with an evocative one-sentence description you can read aloud to your players as the zombie lord advances to attack.

The work begins with a table organising all the zombie lords by CR, facilitating making your selection of an appropriate one to bring to the fray. This is followed by a detailed explanation of what precisely a 'zombie lord' might be, presenting it as a template that can be applied to any corporeal creature that isn't yet undead and showing how the CRs are derived, depending on the options chosen. Such a clear explanation of what is going on in the creation of these monsters makes it easy to create your own variants if none of those presented here suits your requirements.

Basically, if you're wondering, a zombie lord is like a zombie only it has retained at least some of its mortal intelligence and capabilities, thus becoming far more than a brains-obsessed shambling corpse that can barely follow orders, never mind think for itself. As well as retaining much of what it knew in its former life, it can even gain levels in undeath, making them potent foes indeed.

Next comes a selection of variant abilities that you can give your new-minted zombie lord. There's all sorts here from an exploding zombie to the classic brain-eating variet. Some, like the alchemical zombie or the cursed zombie, have been made in different ways from the standard necromantic route, and could spawn a whole adventure: perhaps the adventurers, having encountered such abnormal zombies, seek out and eliminate whoever's making them. Depending on their nature, these features may or may not affect the CR of the zombie lord in question.

This is followed by the completely-generated ready-to-use specimens, ranging from a CR2 dwarf one - "This rotting dwarf wears a fine breastplate and wields a battleaxe" - to a CR11 Magus zombie rakshasa - "This rotting humanoid has the head of a tiger, wears a silvered breastplate and carries a wickedly curved falchion." Quite enough to make anyone want to run away!

Altogether this is an excellent antidote to parties who say "Oh no, not zombies again!" with a yawn as they venture into your dungeons.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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