So, I've been thinking, and I think I've come up with a good idea as how one should improve the strength of their lesser undead minions.
Skeletons and Zombies are undead, yes, but bone marrow stays good for a very long time, right? Bone marrow's good, pretty tasty as far as I remember from life. Vampires do that thing where they inject their weird meat-teeth-juices or magic into the blood, thus transforming a victim into either their slave or another vampire-- what if we had them bite directly into the bone marrow? Skeletons have no flesh to burn, and zombies don't really lock up from fire anyhow.
Your thoughts?
Camden Hernandez
Goddamnit, how many times must I explain this shit?
Vampirism is a -disease-, you pestilent waste of undeath. Your skeletons and zombies are immune to such mystical infections, as they lack a life-force to become infected by the vampire's bite. And even if you did somehow make a vampire skeleton, sunlight damages the bone structure of vampires enough that even a single step would send it crumbling into dust.
Look, we all want better, stronger undead minions, but there comes a point in every lich's unlife where we just have to accept that quantity is ALWAYS going to beat quality when it comes to lesser undead - in terms of time and resources spent to beef up even one skeleton to the point where it could lay a hand on a prepared paladin or cleric, we could instead have buried the whole damn city under a mass of necrotic servants.
Sebastian Murphy
Can you blame a guy for wanting to maybe up the security on his domain? A few tougher lesser undead, if viable, would do a great deal to open up my lair and various labs for actual research rather than bone-rattling and groaning in wait for the next party of would-be heroes who wish to make a name for themselves.
I guess instead perhaps I should just stick to my magical mutation research. You get quite the results when you breed insects and assorted beasts and pump the gestating young full of arcane energies, at least when they don't come out as a lump of quivering teeth, hair, and muscle.
Jason Morris
I just wonder why any of us agreed to allow Acererak to "protect" our phylacteries. 20 intelligence and we came up with that
Ryan Edwards
I find that whole skeletons are pretty fragile but that individually animated body parts are quite formidable. Nothing like Grandpa's dead kidneys eating their way out of him and attacking Grandma during the wedding
Charles Moore
Don't tell me you handed him your real phylactery, I handed him some junk I was already throwing away
Gavin Powell
>he doesn't craft Golems
Lucas Ramirez
If you want a few tougher minions you should look at mid-tier undead such as wraiths and ghouls rather than beefing up lesser undead. Golems are a bitch to maintain and are [b]expensive{/b], definitely not for everyone.
David Ortiz
>crying about expense 200+. Go cry about it to your living family, newcorpse.
Lincoln Gray
The advantage of golems is that you can build up your unholy army while not having to steal corpses or arouse suspicion. You can't walk within five metres of a graveyard these days without fifteen priests trying to burn you with holy fire.
On top of that, why aren't you working on compact golems? I've had some success with those.
