I'm not familiar with death tyrants. Do you know which book has them? It's not one in my very limited collection, but I can at least put a note about it. I plan to do the same thing for skeleton and zombie dragons (although, again, I don't know which book they're from).
Quote from: Garryl on July 04, 2016, 05:08:36 PMI'm not familiar with death tyrants. Do you know which book has them? It's not one in my very limited collection, but I can at least put a note about it. I plan to do the same thing for skeleton and zombie dragons (although, again, I don't know which book they're from).Lords of Madness p42.
Death TyrantThese truly reprehensible creatures areundead beholders akin to zombies, thoughthey retain some innate magical abilities.These creatures are used by powerful wizardsas guardians; they are almost never encounterednear other beholders, who find themabhorrent. Death tyrants are detailed on page309 of the FORGOTTEN REALMSĀ® Campaign Setting.
Thanks, I misremembered how Beholders works. Actually, they're in a pretty strange spot, as their flight is granted by a special quality (and not one that modifies their attacks), so I think even zombie beholders would lose it.
EDIT: Fell Animate lets you create undead of up to twice your HD per single target, and up to twice your CL in total (if your CL is more than your HD, for instance). That opens some doors.
A create undead spell can produce a bone naga from any naga subject with fewer Hit Dice than the creator.
this is probably not the proper place for it....but overall, while necros get a lot of board attention for the craziness wotc provided, i have not been impressed with the actual application or usefulness.maybe im missing something... seems like a lot of tedium for cannon fodder.