Corrupted Zombie

Corrupted Zombie (CR 4)

Chaotic Evil - Medium - Undead

Lore:	Know (Religion)
8		23
Basic DC		Full DC

Initiative

7

Perception:
19	+9
Passive	Active

Ambush:

10+

on a d20

Senses:

• Standard Senses
• Darkvision 60 ft.
• Lifesense 30 ft.

Movement Types:

• Walk 20 ft.

Defense

AC

20

Man Def

19

Monster Health
63	31	6
Hit Points	Bloodied	Hit Dice

Saving Throws
Fort:	+7
Refl:	+2
Will:	+2

Strong Against:

• (Undead 1) Immune (no effect): diseases (infected, diseased, blighted), poisons (tainted, poisoned, blighted), ability damage (dilution, damage, drain), and essence damage (suppression, omission, destruction)
• (Undead 2) Immune (no effect): bleeds (bruised, bleed, ruptured), fatigued, exhausted
• (Undead 3) Immune (no effect): magical sleep (drowsy, sluggish, asleep), paralyzed, stunned
• (Undead 4) Immune (no effect): any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects, or is harmless)

Weak Against:

Offense

Size:	Medium
5 ft.		5 ft.
Space		Reach

To-Hit

+7

Man Off

+7

Action

0

Points

Standard Attack (Melee):

• 1x Virulent Bite +7 (1d10+4/x2)
  as crushing (physical, common)

Full Attack (Melee):

• 1x Virulent Bite +7 (1d10+4/x2)
  as crushing (physical, common)
• 2x Gouging Grasp +7 (1d6+1/x2)
  as slashing (physical, common)

Standard Attack (Ranged):

• 1x Hurl Offal +7 (1d10+4/x2)
  as negative (energy, uncommon)
  (Increment: 20 ft.; Max Range: 100 ft.)
  plus Offal Splatter

Full Attack (Ranged):

• 3x Hurl Offal +7 (1d10+4/x2)
  as negative (energy, uncommon)
  (Increment: 20 ft.; Max Range: 100 ft.)
  plus Offal Splatter

Siege Damage: Not siege capable

Statistics

16

STR

13

DEX

—

CON

4

INT

12

WIS

14

CHA

Skills:

• Perception: 9
• Stealth: 6
• All other skills: 2 (no ranks)

Languages:

Feats:

Special Abilities

Sense Life (Su) Always On

A corrupted zombie can sense life within 30 feet, and once detected, are unshakably persistent stalkers. This sense grants them a bonus to their Perception checks equal to their hit dice (+6), and allows them to passively perceive invisible living creatures, though they must still roll perception to detect stealthed creatures. If they detect an invisible creature, that creature gets only partial concealment (automatically miss on a natural result of a 6 or less on the d20) against the zombie's attacks.

Hurl Offal (Su) Standard Action

A Corrupted Zombie seethes with vile negative (energy, uncommon) energy, causing its flesh to swell and weep from rents within its skin. This flesh is torn loose by the Corrupted Zombie and hot, wet clumps are hurled, dripping and vile, at their enemies. Using Hurl Offal never provokes attacks of opportunity, even if the Corrupted Zombie is in melee, and has a range increment of 20 feet. Note that the Corrupted Zombie may not use Hurl Offal as an opportunity attack; instead it uses its Virulent Bite attack for threatening, flanks, and attacks of opportunity. If the Hurl Offal attack misses, there is no Offal Splatter effect, nor is scatter rolled.

Offal Splatter (Su) Automatic on Hit

When a Corrupted Zombie uses its Hurl Offal ranged attack and successfully hits, all creatures adjacent to the space of the targeted enemy are subject to Offal Splatter. This is similar to splash damage, inflicting 6 points of negative (energy, uncommon) energy damage on all affected targets. There is no saving throw against this effect. Note that, because this is negative energy damage, it will heal undead and other creatures healed by negative energy. If the Hurl Offal attack misses, there is no Offal Splatter effect, nor is scatter rolled.

Relentless Hunger (Ex) Auto Upon Death

When a Corrupted Zombie is reduced to zero or fewer hit points, instead of dying, he is replaced with a single Afflicted Zombie Parts minion. This is to represent that the largest still-intact bit of the zombie continues to seek to extinguish all life from the world. When the minion is slain, the zombie is dead (but see "Immortal" in the Out of Combat section, below). Note that players receive XP and treasure for killing both the zombie and the Afflicted Zombie Parts minion, assuming they successfully slay both.

Corrupted Zombie

Most zombies are shambling undead horrors which mindlessly seek the flesh of the living. But a large minority of zombies develop into far worse things, their undead flesh warping and corrupting with negative power and stinking corruption.

Of these greater types of zombies, one of the most common is the Corrupted Zombie. The hideous contagion seething in its flesh lends it much greater vigor than lesser zombies, and the bulging, oozing tissue that seeps from the wounds upon its form provide a ready supply of ammunition for its disgusting attacks.

Combat Tactics

Corrupted zombies are simple creatures. They always use Hurl Offal, even in melee, pulling out and throwing disgusting lumpy wads of their own vile tissue. This simple tactic serves them well, as they are deadly against the living at range, and in melee their Offal Splatter helps heal them and keep them in the fight. Corrupted Zombies are not quite perfectly mindless, and if they encounter a foe who is immune to or helped by their negative energy attacks they will switch to biting or clawing attacks.

Out of Combat

Immortality
Many undead creatures, such as this one, cannot be killed by normal means. However, it will lie shattered and dormant after being defeated for approximately a decade before rising again to seek to rid the world of life. Casting either Sanctify Corpse (Cleric Spell) or Gentle Repose (Cleric Spell) on the defeated corpse of the creature will add an additional ten years to the time it takes for it to re-compose. Laying the defeated corpse on consecrated ground for a full day will prevent it from ever rising again, as will casting Rest Eternal (Cleric Spell) on it. Applying Raise Dead (Cleric Spell), Resurrection (Cleric Spell), or using similar life-giving abilities will restore the original soul back to the corpse, bringing that person back to life and permanently destroying the necromantic animus that had possessed the body previously. This creature's body will never decay (further than it already has) nor age due to time or neglect.

Rewards

XP: 1,200

Treasure: Sellable Goods worth 1,188 gp.

Weight: 40 lbs.     Volume: 1.6 cu. ft.

Optional Treasure Rules: Roll a d20 on Table 1 below once per encounter (NOT per creature). Any items discovered are in addition to the normal treasure for the encounter.

Table 1: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 10	Nothing Found
11 - 14	1 Languid Remnant (tier 1)
15 - 17	1 Pale Remnant (tier 2)
18 - 19	1 Bright Remnant (tier 3)
20	Roll on Table 2
###	Nothing to see here!
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 2: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Languid Remnants (tier 1)
6 - 10	3 Pale Remnants (tier 2)
11 - 14	1 Intense Remnant (tier 4)
15 - 17	1 Blazing Remnant (tier 5)
18 - 19	1 Vital Remnant (tier 6)
20	Roll on Table 3
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 3: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Bright Remnants (tier 3)
6 - 8	3 Intense Remnants (tier 4)
9 - 11	3 Blazing Remnants (tier 5)
12 - 14	3 Vital Remnants (tier 6)
15 - 17	1 Prime Remnant (tier 7)
18 - 19	1 Mythic Remnant (tier 8)
20	1 Empyrean Remnant (tier 9)