GURPS Classic: Undead

✍ Scribed by Sean Punch

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Incorporated
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Undead/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Using this Book
About the Author
About GURPS
1. At The Door Of The Crypt
Religion And The Undead
Spiritualism
Eschatology
Thanatology
Funerary Rites
The Soul
A Brief History Of The Undead
The Earliest Beliefs
Ancient and Classical Beliefs
Death, Earth and the Mother Goddess
Eastern Beliefs
Death Gods
The Middle Ages
Pre-Columbian America
The Age of Reason
Demons and Angels
The Age of Industry
The Modern World
Today’s Undead
Cinematic Undead
Iconography of Undeath
Fantasy Undead
Horror Undead
The Trappings Of Undeath
Mortal Remains
The Pathology of Death
The Tomb
Embalming and Mummification
Deep Freeze
Grave Robbery
Tomb Trappings
2. Dealing With The Dead
Awakening The Dead
The Restless Dead: Ghosts, Revenants and Tomb Guardians
Rising from the Dead
Tomb Violations
Contagion
The Willful Dead: Vampires, Liches and Wraiths
Making Zombis
Necromancy
Spells for Raising the Dead
The Enslaved Dead: Zombies, Duppies and Undead Minions
Poseurs
The Undead Condition
Undead Strengths
Undead Weaknesses
The Cost of Undeath
Undead Repellant
Killing The Undead
Spells Against the Undead
The Killing Blow
Keeping ’em Down
3. The Mechanics Of Reanimation
Form
Corporeal Undead
Spectral Undead
Motivation
Restless Dead
Willful Dead
Enslaved Dead
Special Powers
Attribute Modifiers
Advantages
New Advantages
Mitigating or Removing Disadvantages
Innate Spells
Inherent Magic (Knacks)
Psionics and Super Powers
Skills
Special Weaknesses
Needs
Repulsions
Vulnerabilities
Missing Advantages
Other Disadvantages
Fine Tuning
4. The Mortuary
Ghost
Lich
Mummy
Revenant
Shade
Shadow
Skeleton
Specter
Vampire
Wight
Wraith
Zombie
Other Undead
Nonhumans
Beasts
Sample Beasts
Undead Swarms
Weirder Undead
Undead Microbes
Undead Plants
Undead Vehicles
Variant Zombie Spells
5. Characters
Character Templates
Living Characters
Advantages
New Advantages
Disadvantage
Undead Character
Buying Undead Racial Templates
Magical Undead
Psionic Undead
New Disadvantage
Skills
Special Powers
Undead Character Templates
New Skills
Magic and the Undead
6. Campaigns
Defining The Undead
Origins
Defining Your Campaign
Types
Power Level
Interactions
Using The Undead
Quantity & Rarity
Location
Sample Campaigns
Society And The Undead
Myth, Legend & Folklore vs. Fact
Attitudes Toward the Undead
You Know Too Much: Dealing With Player Knowledge
Using and Abusing Preconceptions
Undead Foes
Monsters
Minions of Evil
Free Will and the Undead
Undead and the Law
Hunters
Dark Lords
Zombie Labor
Undead Heroes
Forbidden Ground
Passing Through the Veil
Race or Monster?
Undead, Undead Everywhere
In the Company of Corpses: Mixed Groups
Setting the Scene: A Brief History of Undead Imagery
Using Undead With Other GURPS Books
Books of the Dead
Ghost in the Machine
Undead in the Mass Combat System
Zombies & Chainsaws
Bibliography
Suggested Reading
Filmography
Index

✦ Subjects

GURPS