If you could play as a mechanically undead character...

[perseid]

A necropolitan commoner who doesn't understand what the fuss is all about.

[Beary Nice]

A necropolitan commoner who doesn't understand what the fuss is all about.

Now that's a 10/10 idea

[Thelight1]

A Curst Ranger.

[Norsepal]

Skeleton Bard.

Makes bad bone jokes.

[Security_Blanket]

A former Dreadlord Lich Priest raised by Bane.

[AddledPunster]

Easy! Talking skeleton.

Maybe they have only the vaguest sense of their life before undeath. Maybe all memory of their previous life has been scrubbed away, and who they were is only so much trivia about themselves. Maybe they're not even in their own bones, but those of someone else.

But I would be a skeleton. A basic race skeleton with no bells and whistles, but I could gain levels. Probably be a rogue.

Or I could be a skeleton wizard, and get really sad whenever anyone thinks I'm a lich.

[Drand]

Generic Skeleton Archer #4

[Rubricae]

Generic Skeleton Archer #4

you're a hero

[MRFTW]

Revenant would be awesome.

[Agog_fr]

I'd like to play a lich. Even if realistically it's impossible to play an undead well.
Because the further you get from the human, the less you understand and experience it.

[Waldo52]

Dynamic ghoul models when?

[Rubricae]

Dynamic ghoul models when? :shock:

why

[Xersaoth]

A demilich aka a flying skull wizard.

[ThisIsNotADrill]

Irene's final form, a shrieking banshee doomed to haunt some place spooky, tethered into perpetuity by her own misery.

[Irongron]

A zombie, formerly a poet and bard. Would write and perform/recite soliloquies, that begin eloquently enough, exploring themes such as love & existence, but rapidly descend into a visceral craving for human flesh. Would puncuate with sobbing at the realisation of what he has become, and emotes of teeth falling out and his scrabbling along the cobblestones of Cordor desperately trying to reinsert them into their bloody sockets.

Concept would last me a good 5-10 minutes before I rolled in embarrassment.

On second thoughts I don't want to play an undead.

[ThisIsNotADrill]

A zombie, formerly a poet and bard. Would write and perform/recite soliloquies, that begin eloquently enough, exploring themes such as love & existence, but rapidly descend into a visceral craving for human flesh. Would puncuate with sobbing at the realisation of what he has become, and emotes of teeth falling out and his scrabbling along the cobblestones of Cordor desperately trying to reinsert them into their bloody sockets.

Concept would last me a good 5-10 minutes before I rolled in embarrassment.

On second thoughts I don't want to play an undead.

"Brains, brains, brains, braaaaains!"

https://youtu.be/1bAQ5GJ7szM?si=HQEeDXkohmvhFtQ7

[Waldo52]

Undead character concept: I was born a (insert story here) and became a ravenous monster.

Human villain character concept: I was born a human and became a ravenous monster because (insert story here)

I like my villains to come from a "normal" race because of the order in which the story is inserted. Having free will and choosing to become ghoulish for your own reasons is IMO much more compelling than being a ghoul because you were bitten by a Ghoul and now have to eat people because you're a ghoul now.

I speak with a lot of credibility here. I played a character called Ghoulbert Spleenfeast.

The character was stupid and I quickly rolled, but he was way more of a ghoul than any actual ghoul.

If you want to strive towards evil, just be an evil guy. If you just want to play a crazy award race, go to Furcon.