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Undead Adjustments

Undead Adjustments

• Add the undead trait and optionally the mindless trait.
• Add the Necril language if it isn't mindless.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious. If it's mindless, add mental as well.

Ghost Adjustments

• Add the ghost, spirit, and undead traits.
• Add the Necril language.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, precision, unconscious.
• Add the following weaknesses, with a value based on the creature's level: force, ghost touch, positive.
• If the creature can't fly, change its highest Speed to a fly Speed. Remove all other Speeds.
• The damage of the creature's physical Strikes changes to negative damage, and those Strikes are magical.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Ghostly Passage [one-action] The creature Flies and, during this movement, can pass through walls, creatures, and other material obstacles as though incorporeal. It must begin and end its movement outside of any physical obstacles, and passing through solid material is difficult terrain.

Ghost Adjustments

Ghoul Adjustments

• Add the ghoul and undead traits.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious.
• Decrease all saving throw modifiers by 1.
• Add the paralysis ability to the creature's jaws, fangs, or similar unarmed attack. If the creature doesn't have one, add one with the same attack and damage as its strongest melee attack.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Paralysis (occult, necromancy) When the creature gets a critical hit with its jaws against a living, non-elf foe of the creature's level or lower, the foe is paralyzed until the end of the foe's next turn.
  Swift Leap [one-action] (move) The creature jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn't trigger reactions.

Mummy Adjustments

• Add the mummy and undead traits.
• Add the Necril language.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious.
• Add weakness to fire, with a value depending on the creature's level.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Lesser Despair (aura, divine, emotion, enchantment, fear, mental) 30 feet. Living creatures of the mummy creature's level or lower are frightened 1 while in its despair aura. They can't naturally recover from this fear while in the area but recover instantly once they leave.

Mummy Adjustment

Shadow Adjustments

• Add the undead trait.
• Add the Necril language.
• Add Stealth with a modifier equal to its highest skill modifier.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, precision, unconscious.
• Add the following weaknesses, with a value based on the creature's level: force, ghost touch, positive.
• If the creature can't fly, change its highest Speed to a fly Speed. Remove all other Speeds.
• The damage of the creature's physical Strikes changes to negative damage, and those Strikes are magical.
• Add darkness as an innate divine spell usable once per day.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Slink in Shadows The creature can Hide or end its Sneak in a creature's or object's shadow.

Shadow Adjustment

Skeleton Adjustments

• Add the skeleton and undead traits and, optionally, the mindless trait.
• Add the Necril language if it isn't mindless.
• Decrease the creature's HP based on its level.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious. If it's mindless, add mental as well.
• Add the following resistances with a value based on the creature's level: cold, electricity, fire, piercing, slashing.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing

Skeleton Adjustment

Vampire Adjustments

• Add the undead and vampire traits.
• Add the Necril language.
• Decrease the creature's HP based on its level.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, sleep.
• Add resistance to physical damage, with a value based on the creature's level. Choose one type of material that bypasses this resistance: cold iron (vetalarana), silver (moroi), or wood (jiang-shi or nosferatu).
• Add a fangs Strike. It deals damage equal to the creature's lowest melee Strike and can be used to Feed. If the creature already has a jaws or fangs Strike, just add the Feed ability.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Feed [one-action] (divine, necromancy) Requirements The vampiric creature's most recent action was a successful jaws Strike that dealt damage; Effect The vampiric creature drains blood from its victim, dealing minimum jaws damage and regaining HP based on its level.

Vampire Adjustment

Wight Adjustments

• Add the undead and wight traits.
• Add the Necril language.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious.
• Add drain life to any number of the creature's Strikes and reduce the damage of each of those Strikes by half the creature's level.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Drain Life (divine, necromancy); When the creature damages a living creature with this Strike, it gains temporary HP equal to its level, and the target must succeed at a Fortitude save or become drained 1. This save uses the moderate DC for the wight creature's level.

Zombie Adjustments

• Add the mindless, undead, and zombie traits.
• Increase the creature's HP based on its level.
• Add the following immunities: death effects, disease, mental, paralyzed, poison, unconscious.
• Add the following weaknesses, with a value based on its level: positive, slashing.
• Add the following abilities.
  Darkvision
  Negative Healing
  Slow A zombie is permanently slowed 1 and can't use reactions.

Zombie Adjustment

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