I’m going to be a lich.
I get the keep my mind and memories, so I’m not some dumb zombie going babbling “brrrrlll” here and there, seeking brains. I’m fairly powerful so I can pull out my own weight, enough to become the necromancer’s right arm. And if it comes to the worst I can always backstab the necromancer and become the boss, as typically lichs have their own necromancy.
Objectively the best answer. Plus, as long as you hide your phylactery well, there’s not much the necromancer can do to keep you in line.
I’d expect my phylactery to be with the necromancer at the start, for exactly this reason. So I think that a lot of my job in my first days [years?] as an undead is to get their trust so I can: replace my phylactery with a copy, hide the original, and proclaim my independence.
You know you have to feed a soul to your phylactery like every few days. Who’s gonna get got?
Prisoners.
Is your Phylactry also a notebook where you write their names?
Yeah. I wish that my phylactery was just “hide it somewhere and pretend that it doesn’t exist”, but bloody Light doesn’t let me have my way, got to write a name every 13 days.
Do souls have sizes, like “you need at least the soul of a medium sized dog or pig”?
Because if every soul is worth equally much, just set an anthill on fire and be done for the foreseeable future.
Of course, as your next course of action, you should make up for the damage done to your local eco system, but that should be doable within the powers and lifespan of a lich.
This EcoLich build definitely sounds like the way to go.
Circle of Undeath Druid?
A vampire. Since it’s a necromancer raising me, instead of another vampire, I won’t be enthralled and will have free will.
Then there’s all the wonderful abilities and the fact that I’ll still look good for an undead (it’s a pretty movie vampire, not one of those creepy ones)Glitter skin and all
Wasn’t that how Mitch McConnell was born?
He’s more of a turtle golem.
He’s a master of disguise
SPOOKY SKELLY BOI
That appears to send shivers down my spine.
SPOOKED YA!
That has made me shake and shudder in surprise.
Whatever type Jesus was. Folks seem to like that kind of undead.
Undead Deity is in fact a great answer to the question.
A bowl of petunias.
Again?
Oh no.
Agrajag, is that you?
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Lich would be fun
So any animal is fair game? In which case, dodo. You MFs ate us into oblivion, I’m gonna come back with species worth of pent up rage and an undead thirst for blood.
Edit: in retrospect I now realise a dodo would be super easy to send back to the underworld :-(. I’m gonna be… checks deadliest thing notes, a car.
If I’m an undead undead, do I get to live?
Depends on how your summoned I guess.
Blue whale.
“oh no, not again”
Ghostflame Dragon.
If you disregard supernatural powers of undead, it’s different depending on who you ask anyway, I’d go with a skeleton.
I know it’s probably too on brand, but maybe some kind of monstrous wolf hell beast thing. Maybe with a skull as a head and dripping flesh.
If I’m going to be a mindless killing machine, may as well have some fun with it. Better than being a slow shambling skeleton or zombie at any rate.
Perhaps you would enjoy this.
I certainly did.
The painkiller thing where you can tear off your head and throw it at someone and then still control it well enough to bite them
I don’t remember that being in the original Painkiller, though maybe it’s just been too long, but are you maybe thinking of a dullahan?
The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán, /ˈduːləˌhɑːn/) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore. He is depicted as a headless rider on a black horse, or as a coachman, who carries his own head.
Wait, no no - I think I was thinking of NeverDead, not Painkiller.
What is this? Some kind of druid / necromancer dual class?
Nah, I meant what type of undead. I edited the post title, sorry.