Sentient Undead PC Race

[Gomez]

Is there a sentient undead player character race? Something like an intelligent zombie? I am needing on for a homebrew campaign I am working on.

Thanks

 

[Pyrex]

The Necropolitan from Libris Mortis is likely your best bet as it has no LA (But does require you to lose a level, which is not quite the same thing).

 

[The Blow Leprechaun]

Is there a sentient undead player character race? Something like an intelligent zombie? I am needing on for a homebrew campaign I am working on.

If it's a homebrew campaign, just give zombies an intelligence score and deem them sentient. I'm pretty sure Libris Mortis suggests this, though I don't have the book at work (and if I did, I might not have work!).

 

[lukelightning]

The problem is that I think ANY undead race should carry an LA. You are immune to poison, disease, energy drain, ability drain and damage, mind affecting spells, critical hits, sneak attack, etc.

 

[The Blow Leprechaun]

The problem is that I think ANY undead race should carry an LA. You are immune to poison, disease, energy drain, ability drain and damage, mind affecting spells, critical hits, sneak attack, etc.

Have you looked at what the zombie template does to you, though? It's pretty brutal. For starters, you only get a move or a standard action. That sucks. You also don't heal normally and can't be resurrected (if you hit 0 hp, you're gone).

I agree, being undead has a ton of perks to go along with it, but I also think there's a reason the zombie template doesn't incur a LA when applied to a creature: it's already got some significant penalties built into it.

 

[Voadam]

Mythic Races by FFG has one. Basically sentient skeletons with eyes. I forget the LA for them.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Why not just make a less powerful vampire and use it as a template? Vampires are certainly intelligent, but they've got a lot to give to bring the LA back down to a moderate level.

 

[lukelightning]

Why not just make a less powerful vampire and use it as a template? Vampires are certainly intelligent, but they've got a lot to give to bring the LA back down to a moderate level.

Just about everything that makes a vampire a vampire is powerful and adds significant LA.

 

[phindar]

Undead are pretty similar mechanically to constructs, and we have Warforged, so anything's possible. You could do something similiar, making a race of lesser undead ("kinda undead") that don't share the all the immunities of the Undead Type.

 

[stonegod]

Undead are pretty similar mechanically to constructs, and we have Warforged, so anything's possible. You could do something similiar, making a race of lesser undead ("kinda undead") that don't share the all the immunities of the Undead Type.

How about Undead with the "Living" subtype.