Do necromancers put bird spikes out on their zombie hordes? I really can't imagine all that soft rotten flesh that can't move fast enough to swat wouldn't attract massive seas of crows that pick the goblins clean
>>98334391Traditional games?
>>98334398There are literal 28mm crows from a zombie board game and it is talking about a common DnD villian fuckwit
>>98334391Normal animals tend to avoid the undead on principle. Hungry crows who eat a lotmof zombie flesh probably die, get cursed, or otherwise become part of the necromancer's forces.
>>98334391>>98334436crows wouldn't be a problem, but shit like vultures and inscets would pick them clean, you might as well just accept the fact your zombie army is going to be a skelly army by the time you reach the place you want to siege
>>98334421Are those your minis? Do you use them in your games?
>>98334493Are they yours? If not, by your own reasoning you're not allowed to talk about them and should STFU.
>>98334507Playground level arguments. Classic.
>>98334391You could incorporate that idea into an adventure's setting:- the DM depicts a massive flock of birds in the distance. Maybe is the site of a battle? but the flock is moving...- necromancers don't care about the crows eating away at their zombies since that just turns them into skeletons, which are faster and more effective fodder- the necromancers don't care about that because eating undead flesh turns the crows into more undead under their control as soon as they start eating, so now they have aerial assault troops too,as in >>98334436in the end it's the same old answer; depends on the setting
>>98334391Skeletons aren't any worse than zombies, if anything they're better.
>>98334391I always ran it that the magics that turned the dead back to life were so foul that even carrion turned their nose at it. I love this>>98334673the idea that the pc’s get first harangued by undead ravens and once sufficiently battered and bruised get the real threat shambling towards them would be awesome.
>>98334391Read the rules of the game you're asking about.
>>98334391>can't move fast enough to swatThen how does it attack anything?
>>98334391>he doesn't have a flock of undead birds at his disposal NGMI
Zombies are for evil necromancers. Skeletons are for neutral/good necromancers.
So, you've had plenty of time.What did the rules of your game say?
>>98334391Since we're talking about customized zombies instead of plague zombies, the necromancer could embalm them. Vultures don't want the spicy roadkill.KeeperRL has a mechanic where zombies will die in sunlight so you have to send skeletons during the day, not sure how that would translate to a mini game though.Also, if the zombies can't chase crows I don't see how they are supposed to fight. They're slow but they're not that slow.
Zombies (or skeletons) would need magic to even move, because rigor mortis or no joints at all, so I suppose it doesn't really matter if bugs and worms and bacteria eats them. I think carrion birds would avoid them, since they move, unless I guess they wouldn't fight the birds back.
>>983343985e/40k general is down the hall, homo
>>98337500What do you mean? Desecrating the recently dead may be more gross/evil. But desecrating the long dead is still evil. That being said, not all necromancers are evil, but most are. Especially the power hungry ones. >good necromancersAlthough I guess it's possible, would be extremely rare. Most are evil of varying degrees. Some are neutral. Almost none would be considered good by logical people.
>>98334398>>98334493You know /tg/ used to discuss these kinds of system agnostic questions all the time
>>98340981We've had this discussion many times, it's possible for there to be a society that consents to be reanimated after death.>it's too macabre to have your skeleton defend your home city after you die>doctors rubbing their hands together waiting for you to die so they can put your organs in somebody else is perfectly normal
>>98341077>>doctors rubbing their hands together waiting for you to die so they can put your organs in somebody else is perfectly normalThat's just normal organ donors.
>>98340981I'll also point out that in some settings (D&D) the very nature of undead raising magic is evil and naturally corrupting to both the user and the area around it. Negative Energy fucks things up and areas of high Negative energy produce 'wild' undead.
>>98341191That was my point.>>98341198That's a cop out, it's their setting to say so but there's no logic behind it.
>>98341432>There's no logic behind it. Nigger what game do you think you're playing?
>>98341432yeah dude, no shit it's not logical. it's magic. christ what an idiot.
>>98341032Mods used to not ban you for "offtopic" when a thread naturally derailed or drifted from the OP either, nor did there exist a whole cottage industry of people prodding /tg/ for responses and projects they can monetize on other sites. So anons have developed a sense of malicious compliance with board rules over whimsy and creativity.
>>98342455and it's good that they have. if your post isn't about traditional games, you're quite welcome to post it on one of the boards specifically made to cover its topic. retard.
>>98341032thank god people have learned to follow the rules since then.
>Have zombies>Birds eat all the flesh off my zombies>Have skeletonsDoesn't seem like a big deal to me
>>98342455The "what game" spammer is just a troll m8
>>98342485let me guess, your girlfriend left you not to long after you told her you would like to try out getting pegged by her.
>>98343705It matters in editions where Zombies and Skeletons have different resistances. Nobody wants to be the intrepid hero leading a peasant levy to the horde of zombies with piercing weapons only to learn the damn birds made them into Skeletons.
