throng of UNDEAD Children

[gawwy]

Hey all, im trying to simulate an encounter where the pcs are wading through some corpses of dead children when they come to life at start attacking them. i kinda want it to feel like they are just getting swarmed bu these things so im looking at using the throng of children creature from cityscape at them and applying the undead type to them via the skeletal creature template.

Was wondering how turning would work against said creature.

[OldTrees1]

Well, a CR 5 throng of children has 17HD and is made up of ~48 children. That is roughly 3 children per 1HD. So you could have it lose 1HD for every 3 1HD undead children turned. For simplicity use the Negative Level mechanic.

[Tiri]

That is very disturbing.

[Sam K]

I only have one question:

Will the children be orphans?

[tadkins]

That is very disturbing.

That is, definitely a serious creepshow right there. I love it!

[BWR]

Check out "Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead". They have a brilliant character called Toben the Many. Toben is a sort of intelligent hive mind zombie that adds his kills to his collective. He likes orphanages.

[Mystral]

Read the mob rules in cityscape.

[gawwy]

That is very disturbing.
Man you have no idea...

im running an evil campain and went with the bbeg more evil than the pcs for this section. the bbeg is a green dragon thats charmed a bunch of elves to fanatic. The elves all get preggnant constantly just to give birth kill their child raise it as an undead and feed it to the dragon. the dragons gotten so fat of these children it can no longer fly. also gave the dragon nauseating breath at will.

The pcs are currently not enjoying the female elf barbarians with no armor that charge them at first sight.


Well, a CR 5 throng of children has 17HD and is made up of ~48 children. That is roughly 3 children per 1HD. So you could have it lose 1HD for every 3 1HD undead children turned. For simplicity use the Negative Level mechanic.

yea this sounds about right. the level 8 DN will blow right through them but hell still waste actions so the dragon can breath on the party :D.

[LoyalPaladin]

That is roughly 3 children per 1HD.
Well, wouldn't it be hard to kill just one (http://www.lfg.co/page/17/)?

[atemu1234]

Read the mob rules in cityscape.

Or PHBII. Those work too.

[gorfnab]

Don't forget to add a Slay Mate (LM) or two to the mix of undead children.