Talk:Zombie

Diet Question
Do zombies in the Realms eat brains? If so, when a zombie eats brains, do they just leave the rest of the victim's body behind to rot? Or do they eat that too? ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:46, October 19, 2017 (UTC)
 * Zombies do whatever their creator tells them to do, otherwise they seek out any life they can and destroy it. If they were told to eat a brain by their necromancer, they'd eat a brain, if not, they wouldn't. -hashtalk 23:20, October 19, 2017 (UTC)

Zombie Alignment
I think it's only fair to mention that in 3e zombies were neutral. They were made NE in 3.5 but this wiki doesn't differentiate between the two editions, does it? NPC Stories (talk) 21:12, October 5, 2020 (UTC)


 * Technically, v.3.5 is not an edition, it is a correction to 3e. Thus, everything in v.3.5 is a retcon to what is in 3e. We could mention the deviation in a note, but it is not the same as how we give different editions the same weight.


 * That being said, the change is really a crunch matter. In 3e, the alignment represented that a zombie has no moral outlook at all, which is still true in v.3.5. Zombies are mindless; they cannot possibly be moral in any sense. However, their very existence is an abomination against all that is good. Thus, they radiate an evil aura and should be harmed by holy weapons. v.3.5 switched it to focus on that aspect of the lore, the aspect that is more closely related to the rules of the game. Destroying them is a good thing to do. I think that 3e implied all these concepts, but again, it focused solely on the no possible moral outlook side of things, which is still true in v.3.5, since they are mindless in v.3.5 as well.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:05, October 5, 2020 (UTC)