Category:Composite Walking Dead: Difference between revisions

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Usually created by spellcasters using necromancy, composite walking dead are similar to flesh golems in that they are cobbled together from multiple corpses. However, composite walking dead are entirely undead. A composite walking dead's constituent bodies can originate in multiple creature types (see the Composite Walking Dead Template), at least one is required to be a humanoid. The main base creature (to which additional limbs or body parts are grafted upon) enjoys all of it abilities it has in life and gains additional abilities specific to the limbs or body parts it gains.^[1]

Descriptive Text

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When I first saw it there in the shadows, my first thought was of the centaurs of myth. I was not alone in my thoughts of fanciful creatures, for later I would learn that my colleague, Humphries, seeing the abomination at first from the opposite vantage, thought it a pegasus. Alas, it was no noble creature of the classic tales, though perhaps its creator is well-versed in such prose. I daresay he was trying for something of a manticore or lammasu, for as the thing shambled forward, we saw that this madman had stitched together the corpses of a man and a once-fine stallion. I know not where he found the wings, for they appeared to be those of a bat, but larger than any bat we had heard of in even the wildest of Barovian folktales. I wish I could say that we set the poor defiled man to rest, but as we were prepared only for a mission of observation, we exercised the better part of valor... and ran for our lives.

- Notes on the Expedition to the Lost Citadel, Professor A. Krenshaw of the University of Il Aluk

Descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by cure, from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.