spindlyjohnny
2017-09-18, 12:06 PM
One of my players is going to die, it's a given. In fact, I plan for one of them to die, since it's important to the story that at least one of them makes it to the afterlife because there's plot-relevant information in the afterlife.
The premise: instead of going to the real afterlife, the dead player's soul is redirected into this sort of pocket plane/demiplane which is being leased to a necromancer by an evil god. The dead player will discover that they're not the first person this has happened to, and that an army of the undead is being built within this demiplane, with freshly-dead souls being sent to power the whole operation. In order to give them incentive to run, I decided that if a member of the undead horde touched a ghost, it would dissipate into ectoplasm while the soul and the magical energy making up the ghost were absorbed into the plane. And in order to make it even more distressing, I decided that the ectoplasm would be converted into another member of the undead army.
So, the question here is: how do you make a ghost undead? Specifically, what creature could the ectoplasm be converted into? I considered some kind of husk creature at first, but then the army would be unbalanced with about 10.000 husk creatures and only 3 vampires or zombies or whatever.
The premise: instead of going to the real afterlife, the dead player's soul is redirected into this sort of pocket plane/demiplane which is being leased to a necromancer by an evil god. The dead player will discover that they're not the first person this has happened to, and that an army of the undead is being built within this demiplane, with freshly-dead souls being sent to power the whole operation. In order to give them incentive to run, I decided that if a member of the undead horde touched a ghost, it would dissipate into ectoplasm while the soul and the magical energy making up the ghost were absorbed into the plane. And in order to make it even more distressing, I decided that the ectoplasm would be converted into another member of the undead army.
So, the question here is: how do you make a ghost undead? Specifically, what creature could the ectoplasm be converted into? I considered some kind of husk creature at first, but then the army would be unbalanced with about 10.000 husk creatures and only 3 vampires or zombies or whatever.