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[Tiberius_Morguhn]

*** Updated 12-Jun-2015 : Published!  Get it here. ***

 

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Thought I would give some teaser previews of something I'm working on.  Just an expansion of the undead into other racial types.  Always disliked that the skeletons and zombies were essentially human undead (half-elf and maybe elven if you stretch the imagination a bit).  I know that you can scale via the tail options and other methods, but I wanted some unique undead with some of the other races.  Hope to have this published soon.

 

 

Undead Dwarven King

 

 

Half-Orc Skeleton (20% larger than human plus the lower tusks)

 

 

Dwarven Skeleton

 

 

 

Skeletal Knight

 

 

 

The Menagerie (all unique creatures shown to scale)

 

[MannyJabrielle]

Them bones......  

[Rolo Kipp]

<raising...>

 

Woot!

I've been needing a wight dwarf for a long time :-)

 

<...caine>

[Mecheon]

I am liking how its going, though I have to ask in respect of the dwarf one...
 

Any chance of a miner version (Cause dwarves, y'know) and maybe one with a raggedy rotten beard?

 

Elven ones covered in vines and stuff like that could be interesting as well

[Pstemarie]

Excellent! Saves me a lot of work since I was looking into doing this for Q.

[Fester Pot]

Are they dynamic?

 

FP!

[_six]

Dwarven king totally needs a patchy zombie beard

[SHOVA]

So nice! Can they be scaled?

[Tiberius_Morguhn]

They are not dynamic.  I have tried to do a beard for the dwarves, but I can't get it right because of the clipping on the armor.  I want to get to something like the image below eventually.

 

[MannyJabrielle]

Shape the beard to drape over the armor naturally?  Would may still be clipping as it moves it's head around and such, but might not clip as much

[Tarot Redhand]

Have you tried the beard as a head aligned vfx?

 

TR

[Zwerkules]

These all look good, but the eyes of the skeletal knight are more comic than scary. Why would he have eyes anyway if there isn't even a bit of skin left? The eyes would be gone sooner than the skin.

[Carcerian]

Yeah im not a fan of googly-eyed undead either, unless intended to be comical, Thayan lich protestics, or possibly as necromantic constructs...

 

I'd suggest giving fleshy undead types like zombies and revenants yellow/greenish, rotted, wormy or milky white eyes, and giving your various death knights, liches, skeletal fleshless undead types simple glowing energy or spiderwebs in eye sockets if anything at all...

 

 

*offhandedly* ..and we definatly need more undead with cool hats !!! 

[Pstemarie]

I kind of like the eyeballs in the skeletal pirates that Cervantes did for Q - it gives them character. I once played a PnP module where the crypt at the end had skeleton sentries stationed all throughout it. Every single one of the bloody things had "wizard eyes" that relayed your movements back to the necromancer, making for one nasty end battle. So there is some logic, albeit rather loose, that can explain the existence of eyes in skeletons.

[Tarot Redhand]

Also don't forget the tsr module "L1 - The Secret of Bone Hill" had a special skeleton that had a lolling tongue (if I remember correctly) as well as rolling eyes.

 

TR

[SHOVA]

Perhaps there should be new category of a CC focus, that being "make the creatures from the PnP modules that have been left out of NWN"

The original Ravenloft mod had a werewolf/spider thing, that looked a bit like a drider.

[Mecheon]

In terms of eyes for skeletons, there's everyone's favourite floating skull, Morte

 

Albeit he is a special case due to his whole reason for existence...

[Frith5]

I like the eyeballs option for skeletal undead:

Firstly, let's face it, this is necromantic magic at play. So what if the skin's gone? Their ligaments and tendons and muscles are gone too, but they can bloody tap dance on a bar top if they want to!

Secondly, the effectiveness (to me) of actual eyeballs lolling about in a bony skull is startling and evokes the truth that this thing was once alive, once a person of flesh, blood, and eye. Dry bones might be scary, but glistening, rotted flesh (or better still, a clean white unblemished eyeball!!) speaks volumes.

 

Just my opinion. Eyes? I vote aye!

 

JFK

[Tarot Redhand]

Just came across this guy on deviantArt and thought "I want". Anyone want to give this undead (probably without the six-shooter) a go?

 

TR

[Tiberius_Morguhn]

Easy enough to make the skeletal knight variants with and without eyes.  Done.

[Tiberius_Morguhn]

Okay......wow.  Didn't realize I had let this sit for a year.  Where does time go.......

 

No matter.  I've finished now. 

 

New zombie variants with beards and hair thanks to Draygoth28 (his Duergar Dwarves), halfling skeletal variants, custom portraits, and the return of everyone's favorite talking skull --- Morte!

 

Get it here.

 

 

 

[The Mad Poet]

Halfling skeletons?

 

"HERE COMES HALFLING DEATH!"

[Tarot Redhand]

Great stuff. Now that this is done, does it mean we can look forward to the even more doors, that you mentioned simply ages ago, sometime in the near future?

 

TR

[Grymlorde]

I like the eyeballs option for skeletal undead:

Firstly, let's face it, this is necromantic magic at play. So what if the skin's gone? Their ligaments and tendons and muscles are gone too, but they can bloody tap dance on a bar top if they want to!

Secondly, the effectiveness (to me) of actual eyeballs lolling about in a bony skull is startling and evokes the truth that this thing was once alive, once a person of flesh, blood, and eye. Dry bones might be scary, but glistening, rotted flesh (or better still, a clean white unblemished eyeball!!) speaks volumes.

 

Just my opinion. Eyes? I vote aye!

 

JFK

 

There was an episode in the original Dark Shadows TV show circa 1969 where the creepy guy with the mummified hand sends a woman into a dream. When the scene brings us back to the present, she has transformed into a skeleton in clothes, wearing a black wig, and 'clean white unblemished eyeballs'! That episode scared my 7-year old self so bad, that I started sleepwalking at night. Just remembering it still gives me the chills. In fact, I'd say that particular scene was the scariest thing I've ever seen in a TV show or movie in my entire life! Although I must admit that I've searched in vain for that particular episode to watch it again. Perhaps some day. . .!

 

Eyes have it!!!