Tyciol wrote:Yes I know they're not real, I just said effective. Also, I was looking around and found the updated version of the Create Zombie ritual in Palladium Fantasy Second edition. They have an added weakness of being afraid of fire (whereas they were formerly only held at bay like it, unlike the mummy which feared it). Other than that, they have been somewhat boosted overall, given some basic skills, more attacks, a strike bonus, and given PE, PP and PB attributes. Sadly PB is quite low... eh well. So much for my zombie harlots...
Zombies do however, emote. They are described as having 'limited emotions'. Limited is more than non-existant. ME is immaterial, I agree. MA should have some sort of semblance, an effective MA. They can, after all, intimidate people with their commands. Gaining trust would be incredibly difficult, they would have to have been commanded by their master to do actions and speak a certain way to gain any semblance of trust, and that would only be if the person didn't know they were a zombie. Something like that would largely be based on the creator, perhaps half or a third of the MA of the spellcaster who created it.
I assume that despite the mention of being impervious to psionic powers, Exorcism is an exception. Negate Magic doesn't work for sure, though I'm not sure about the status of Anti-magic cloud. Would it totally remove the spell animating the zombie, or just make the zombie keel over until it disappated? If they did cease, would the 6 hour count continue, or would it have elapsed during their period of animation? So many questions...
ZOMBIE HARLOTS!!!!
Okay... take a very fresh corpse and "revive" it... I'd imagine the magic keeps them in a static state, so she'd be pale... perhaps a bluish tinge... and not exactly warm or lively... but, I guess...
Ewwww...