Editing Bodak

[[File:Bodak ToA.jpg|thumb|right|300px|In the 5e [[Tomb of Horrors]] remake, the famous face also spawns these fuckers.]]
The [[Bodak]] (named from the ''bodach'' of Gaelic folklore and [[Fiend Factory]] - but, only by name) is a cross between [[undead]] and [[demon]]. We got it in the 32-page insert from the 1982 adventure ''[[S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]]''. They "are evil humans changed into monsters by exposure to the demonic forces and substances of the [[Abyss]]".

==Appearance and Abilities==
They're mutated shambling (MV 6") mummified corpses. Smokey-grey hairless skin, warped skull, milky white eyes. Hermaphroditic, for what that's worth.

They take damage in sunlight, and (like [[demons]]) against coldwrought iron. They are most feared for their death-stare: within 30', if you don't make your save v. death, guess what.

(All this implies that if you meet your end gazing at a Bodak while in its new Abyssal home, you're like to become one yourself. So stay away from the Abyss!)

Bodaks are sentient... sort of. They "speak" the language they had in their human form, but it is unlikely you'd care to hear what they have to say. They also speak the Abyssal languages.

On their home planes, Bodaks are summoned (back) by demonologists. If they're smarter than the demonologist (in INT; we can assume the demonologist a [[Dump stat|cretin in WIS]]) they can control him.

==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.

==GURPS==
In Dungeon Fantasy for GURPS 4e, bodaks are refluffed as a special type of undead called '''reskinned''' made by encasing a skeleton in a mixture of "clay, dissolved flesh, and alchemical elixers".

==Gallery==
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Bodak S4 1.png|The first bodak image in S4.
Bodak 1e.jpg|1e
Bodak MC8.jpg|2e
Bodak tRoSP.png|Sexy Bodak courtesy of ''The Rod of Seven Parts''
Bodak 2e.gif|Planescape
Bodak Hellbound.jpg|''Hellbound''
Kesto brighteyes Uncaged.jpg|''Uncaged: Faces of Sigil''
Bodak 3e.jpg|3e, Looks like a [[grey]] alien with a weird vagina mouth.
Bodak 4e.jpg|4e
Bodak 5e.jpg|5e. A tattered robe makes everything spookier
Bodak PF B2.png|Pathfinder bodaks have smoke constantly spewing from their eye sockets.
Bodak Pathfinder.jpg
reskinned DF Monsters 2.png|GURPS
</gallery>

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