Editing Bodak (section)

==How to Make a Bodak==
The Bodak entered the second Monster Manual and also ''Manual of the Planes'', as made from evil visitors to the wrong Abyssal layers. But this didn't catch on, being restrictive.

''Planescape'' figured out that, rather than outsiders as such, bodaks fill that niche in the Outer Planes that undead would in the Prime Material. It would stand to reason that the undead are souls who ''don't'' reach their afterlife. Inasmuch as the Outer Planes ''are'' the afterlife, logically these planes cannot have undead. (Although some foul gods might lock their damned into the form of undead. And high-level undead from the Prime are allowed down here like she who created the [[vargouille]].) Monte Cook wrote a particularly horrifying and poignant bodak for "Squaring the Circle" in ''[[Hellbound: The Blood War]]''.

In Dungeons & Dragons 5E, it was revealed that [[Orcus]] could directly make Bodaks from his followers as well, as a sort of nightmarish promotion. Makes sense, considering he's the Demon Lord of Undeath and has had them in his employ before.