[3.P] Is there a way to become undead?

[Apocolithp]

Title says it all, I trying to figure out a way to make a undead druid in pathfinder but cant find any rules for it, any suggestions? Looking to, if possible, stay human and not go for templets such as lich. Don't know if this exists but Im sure someone has more info then I do.

[Calimehter]

Well, you won't really be "human" anymore when you become undead. :smallwink:

For a simpler template than lich, there's always the Necropolitan from Libris Mortis.

[Apocolithp]

Yes, good point there hehe, guess I just don't quite understand how it works, Ill check that one out though, thanks!

[SoHardToRegiste]

I thought undead were anathema to the druid's belief system, being against the natural cycle and all.

[Moginheden]

I don't think a druid would be ok with being undead.

There was a class like druid that worked with undead I read about a while ago though, I think in either sandstorm or libris mortis. I think it gained undead abilities as class features too.

[Psyren]

Pretty sure there's an undead druid in Faerun somewhere.
*waits for hamishspence.*

Failing that, desert druids are explicitly drawn towards the Walker in the Wastes PrC (It's Hot Outside) which turns you into an undead Dry Lich at the capstone.

[Moginheden]

Walker in the Waste was the class, it's a prestige class not a base class but I can see a druid going into it despite the undead nature. Sandstorm page 89. At level 10 you become a "dry lich" so you never have to go evil like a normal lich, but you are undead.

[Wings of Peace]

Planar Shepards could also be pro-undead. Some of them would see them as a part of the grand scheme of things.

[Psyren]

Walker in the Waste was the class, it's a prestige class not a base class but I can see a druid going into it despite the undead nature. Sandstorm page 89. At level 10 you become a "dry lich" so you never have to go evil like a normal lich, but you are undead.

1) The designers saw a druid going into it too :P

"If you’re a desert druid of a harsh bent, you might take up this path as well." - SSt pg. 90

2) There are evil druids too, and I could easily conceive an evil lich druid being someone like Knives Millions from Trigun, that wants to save the planet/ecosystem by forcibly removing its worst parasite - humanity.

[ZombiePunch]

There's also the Corrupted Wild Shape feat in Libris Mortis, it lets you wildshape into an undead.
You need to be undead to take it though so Necropolitan would fit in here.

[Anxe]

Blighter from complete Divine? Or is that not allowed in Pathfinder?

[Psyren]

Blighter from complete Divine? Or is that not allowed in Pathfinder?

They're not undead, just bastards (though you could easily be an undead one.) They do get Undead Wild Shape, however.

And anything in 3.5 is allowed in Pathfinder, you just have to convert it. Blighter's requirements don't require adjustment though.

[Leon]

The Child of Winter Druidic faction from Eberron could easily be happy with the Undead.

[cZak]

PrC Agent of the Grave (Factions?) capstone (5th) gives the option to become a free willed undead if you ever get spawned.
You gain a negative energy touch attack and heal from negative energy.
You also retain your intelligence.

One req that may be difficult is ability to cast Animate dead (not sure that's on the druid spell list)

Problem is only vampire and liches retain class levels after being spawned.

[Arutema]

The Dhampir (PF Bestiary 2) is technically alive, but is healed by negative energy, and is suitable for use as a PC race.

[DonDuckie]

I think it's Bestiary 1; skaletal champion, a skeleton that retains class levels and intelligence(and gets some nifty bonuses). There is no recipe for creating it, but I would easier than Lich. But it's still a template.

[Yora]

Pretty sure there's an undead druid in Faerun somewhere.
*waits for hamishspence.*
Yes there is. He provides much needed divine magic for the elven KKK, because all the elven gods refuse to grant them spells.