Zombie (Animate Dead)

Zombies can be summoned via  Animate Dead and similar actions. The summoned creature is a special zombie variant.

About

 Animate Dead is a level 3 necromancy spell available to level 5 Clerics, Wizards, and Circle of the Spores Druids, as well as level 9 Oathbreaker Paladins. It can also be cast with a  Scroll of Animate Dead. Normally, it requires a corpse to be targeted; in some places, such as the Lower City Graveyard, this limitation does not apply.

The raised zombie can apply  Crawling Gnaw to targets it hits. When a creature dies with the  Crawling Gnaw condition active, they raise as a "Newborn Zombie." A Newborn Zombie has 10 HP and takes 1⁠⁠Necrotic damage each turn. A Newborn Zombie otherwise has the same stats as a regular Zombie.

Combat

Attacks and actions

 Slam ()

Damage: 5~15

2d6 + 3⁠Bludgeoning

Hit a target with your bare fists and infect it with the  Crawling Gnaw.

Constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, undead, and members of your adventuring party can't be infected.

 Melee: 1.5 m (5 ft)

Undead Fortitude

Due to their passive  Undead Fortitude, zombies can come back to life at 1 HP when killed, unless the killing blow was a critical hit, or the damage type is ⁠Radiant. This can make zombies resilient to death, thus requiring more actions to kill.

See also

•  Fungal Zombie