The Genius Guide to Gruesome Undead Templates

Experienced players have seen the standard undead before. They know how a vampire behaves, how a zombie moves, what a lich wants. Gruesome undead templates break that familiarity — giving GMs quick, easy options to layer onto nearly any undead monster, creating creatures with whole new themes, abilities, and a fresh dose of dread.

Horror That Hits Different

Each template in this collection plays into a specific fearsome idea or fate, drawing inspiration from the ghosts, vampires, and zombies of classic horror fiction while also introducing templates tied to specific backgrounds, environments, and narrative themes. A GM can use these as threats that catch experienced players off guard, as clues woven into a background story, or as the terrifying boss undead at the center of a climactic final battle.

Every template includes all the game rules needed to run it — including a new mechanic called shock value, explained in detail — plus enough descriptive material and suggestions for use to make it easy to drop into an ongoing adventure or build entirely new encounters around. Whether you want to make a familiar monster feel fresh or craft something your players have never seen before, this is the toolkit for it.

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Specifications

• Publisher: Rogue Genius Games
• System: Pathfinder RPG (1e)
• Format: PDF
• Includes: Multiple gruesome undead templates, shock value mechanic, descriptive material and suggestions for use