Is there a playable race of undead in Dungeons and Dragons 3.5? I would prefer a race that isn't a vampire or lich. If possible, please share their stats.
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Yes. The best "playable" undead race is the necropolitan, found in (I believe) Libris Mortis. The link has the stats, not reproduced here because of potential copyright violations. This template is the best choice for a PC because it has no level adjustment, merely causing the character in question to lose a level. Therefore, any build is possible with this basis, with especial attention being paid to the taint rules from Heroes of Horror. Beyond that, look in Savage species for a way to make templates for any creature of your choice and many interesting exotic (and some undead) races. Libris Mortis also has some interesting undead rules. |
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To give you a kind of empowering and loose answer: Just pick any undead from any monster supplement you have access to, get the approval of / discuss the details (level adjustment, background, house-rule tweaks concerning stats, skills etc) with your DM and there you go. ;) To get you started, check out the Monsters as Races section of the d20srd. |
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If you take the D&D 3e setting of Ghostwalk you've got the option to play a ghost as well. Most of 3e's balance issues came with classes, so there shouldn't be any concern of Ghostwalk creating balance problems in 3.5. The Unbodied while being a psionic race, could also be easily used to handle a ghost. Another thing you could do is basically recreate the 4e Revenant. Give it undead status, and all the benefits that go with it, including no constitution score, and if you really want to give it Chill Touch as an innate ability, and have it come out at +1 to +2 levels (I'm thinking +1 with just undead status, +2 with chill touch as being able to repeatedly hammer in strength damage while unarmed is pretty powerful in the long run, as would converting a wizard to d12 hit dice). |
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There are many playable undead in 3.5, even discounting vampires and liches; however, the most accessible is without a doubt creatures with the necropolitan template, from Libris Mortis. I do not have that book on me, but even if I did it would proooobably not be okay to just transcribe those stats. You're on your own for that. |
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There was a Dragon magazine article (I can't find it at the moment) a few years back about playing undead characters as PCs and I actually got to make use of it. I had a character in a campaign who was killed by a bodak. As per the rules, 24 hours later he returned as a bodak himself, but through DM/divine intervention still retained enough of himself that he joined the party as a bodak character. He eventually died because the cleric of the party refused to channel negative energy to heal him after combats, despite knowing that the bodak was at least partly his former companion. It turned out pretty cool, and well played in character. |
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There was a dragon article about playing half-undead that was pretty cool. Some were a bit silly, but for the most part it was well written and the classes seemed fairly balanced. |
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