Death Shepherd

Death Shepherd is an Undead creature and non-playable race in Baldur's Gate 3.

About Death Shepherds

Two Death Shepherds can be found leading a swarm of ghouls along the Rosymorn Monastery Trail. Another can be found in the Moonrise Towers Prison during the assault on Moonrise Towers, and a fourth appears in the Necrotic Laboratory within the Mind Flayer Colony. A unique Death Shepherd named Garret Dortmell can appear in the Lower City Graveyard if the player chooses to help Nina Dortmell resurrect him.

Combat

Attacks and abilities

 Main Hand Attack ()   –  Greatsword

Normal weapon damage

Make a melee attack with your equipped weapon.

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft

 Reach from Beyond ()

2d4 (2~8) + Spellcasting modifier Necrotic

Defile a target with Myrkul's decaying magic.

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 No Rest for the Wicked ()

Death is but a temporary inconvenience - raise a fallen undead with half of its hit points.

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

Loot

• Greatsword
• Grants 50 experience when killed.

Tactics

•  No Rest for the Wicked revives its target with full HP on Tactician difficulty.
• The Death Shepherd's  No Rest for the Wicked can be countered by picking up the corpses of defeated undead so that they can't be revived. Counterspell is also effective.
• Death Shepherds will lose most of their resistances once the temporary hit points from  Necrotic Veil are removed. However, they will still have resistance to Slashing, Piercing, and Bludgeoning damage, and immunity to Poison damage, so it may be wise to use spells of other damage types to defeat them (e.g.  Fireball,  Lightning Bolt).

Death shepherd characters

• Garret Dortmell

Gallery

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  Render by Reza Abedi

External links

• Death shepherd on the Forgotten Realms Wiki