Editing Zombie (section)

==Dungeons & Dragons==
Zombies have been a part of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] since the beginning, since they are such an iconic monster that is also guilt-free to exterminate. Technically, the largest variety of zombies appeared during [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], due to that game not being able to really handle "levelling up" monsters and thus needing to create more monsters just to fill up the potential opponents slot. Furthermore, most of the zombie species appeared in the [[Ravenloft]] setting, due to its status as the Horror D&D Setting.

Why that "technically" above? 3E made zombie a template in the core rulebooks that can be applied to any corporeal creature with a skeleton system. This makes 3E's possible zombies endless, especially when combined with other templates. This is not the only variant of the zombie template in 3E however, as the ''Draconomicon'' introduced the Zombie Dragon template since the normal zombie template produced poor results on a dragon and "dragon zombie" is such a striking image it deserved better. The most dreaded type of zombie in 3rd edition however is the Hydra Zombie, which overcomes a zombie's slowness due to rules quirks.

In AD&D, the following zombies existed:

* '''Common Zombie''': Your standard mindless walking corpse. Comes in humanoid and monster versions.
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* '''Banedead''': Worshippers of [[Bane]] who have undergone a ritual to become undead. One of their hands is oversized with sharp claws while the other is normal. Needless to say, these are unique to the [[Forgotten Realms]].
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* '''Boneless''': Created from corpses that have somehow had all of their bones removed, resulting in a deflated, flexible bag of skin that can squeeze itself through tight spaces. In combat they act a lot like chokers, preferring to grapple and constrict opponents, though they can wield weapons normally. They were introduced in [[Ravenloft]], and were invented by the wizard Faylorn so that he could create two minions (a [[skeleton]] and a boneless) from one corpse.
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* '''Cannibal Zombie''': Your standard Romero-type roaming mindless flesh-eating corpse. Native to [[Ravenloft]].
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* '''Coffer Corpse''': An undead who is angry that their funerary rites were left unfinished.
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* '''Crawling Claw''': A reanimated severed hand. In 5e lore they can only be created from the hands of murderers.
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*'''Crypt Servant''': Reanimated servants that clean, maintain and guard the tomb of their master. From [[Al-Qadim]].
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*'''Dearg-Due''': Gaunt, eyeless zombies that somehow haven't decayed in the slightest. They are the front ranks of the Saugh, the undead army of the [[Shadow Fey]].
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* '''Desert Zombie''': A zombie animated from the dessicated, dried-out carcasses found in desert environments. From [[Ravenloft]].
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*'''Dread Warrior''': Zombie soldiers created by the [[BBEG]] in the ''Spellbound'' boxed set.
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*'''Inquisitor''': Undead torturers of unknown origins. They kidnap people and torture them endlessly, asking them impossible questions.
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* '''Jolly Roger''': Zombie [[Pirate]]s! They have a ''hideous laughter'' gaze attack and a save vs. death touch that turns you into a sea zombie. From [[Ravenloft]].
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* '''Ju-ju Zombie''': A zombie created through black magic rituals, typically involving ceremonially draining a living humanoid to death with necrotic energy. This traps a fragment of the soul inside the corpse, creating a dimly intelligent zombie with greater combat abilities and enhanced magical resistances. Is also the inspiration for the people possessed by the Mindflayer in Stranger Things, who could be melded together to form a hideous fleshy avatar for the psychic parasite.
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*'''Lebendtod''': Secret zombies that look and act just like living people. They can turn other people into lebendtod by breathing into their mouth and then letting them sleep for 3 days. In this way, entire villages can be replaced with lebendtod. Basically undead sleeper agents under the control of a necromancer. Their bodies age ten times slower than normal and they can detach and rearrange their body parts at will.
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* '''Lightning Zombie''': Bizarre, sapient zombies that are sometimes born when people die in areas of intense magical energy. This gives them the ability to deliver deadly electrical shocks with a touch.
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* '''Mud Zombie''': Despite its name, actually a [[skeleton]] caked in thick, gooey, sticky mud, which fouls any wounds it makes and which it can use to try and suffocate anyone it grabs hold of.
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* '''Netherese Zombie''': Basically a more powerful version of the Ju-ju Zombie native to the [[Forgotten Realms]].

* '''Red Zombie''': A [[Mystara]]n zombie created from the corpse of someone suffering the mutagenic effects of [[Red Steel]].
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* '''Salt Zombie''': A blood-drinking zombie strain native to the deserts of [[Dark Sun]], usually forming from either corpses left lying in salt flats or which died of thirst.

* '''Sea Zombie''' (also called '''Drowned One'''): A standard zombie, but created from somebody who drowned, and thusly specialized for an aquatic environment.
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* '''Spawn of [[Kyuss]]''' (formerly known as '''Son of Kyuss'''): A zombie filled with infectious worms.
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*'''Stellar Undead''': Zombified [[spelljammer]] sailors. They will attempt to pass themselves off as living in order to get close to people they can eat.
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*'''Strahd Zombie''': Zombies created by [[Strahd von Zarovich]]. Any hit dealing 5 or more damage severs one of the zombie's limbs or head, which will continue to move independently from the rest of the body.
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* '''Thinking Zombie''': Another [[Dark Sun|Athasian]] zombie strain, created when a restless spirit possesses its own body to continue its goal. Essentially a variant [[revenant]].

*'''Tuyewera''': Created by witch doctors in tropical jungles by chopping off a corpse's legs and animating it with an ancestral spirit. They are immune to all physical attacks.
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*'''Undead Dwarf''': From before templates existed. Appeared in the ''Dragon Mountain'' boxed set.
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*'''Undead Lake Monster''': Originally a unique creature called Aggie that appeared in the [[Ravenloft]] module ''Castles Forlorn''. Aggie's statblock was later reprinted in ''Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1'' under this new generic name.
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* '''Zombie Fog''': A malign [[elemental]] thing of mist that feeds on the souls of the dead, animating corpses as zombie minions to kill its prey.
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* '''Zombie Lord''': A fully intelligent zombie with a number of mystical powers, mostly the ability to reanimate other corpses as new zombies. This poor-man's-[[lich]] is native to [[Ravenloft]]. Downgraded to a template in 3e, but [[Pathfinder]] has its own version as well.
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* '''Zombie Wolf''': what it says on the tin.
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