Anonymous asked: Are you more partial to corporeal undead (e.g. Zombies, skeletons, mummies, etc.) or incorporeal undead (e.g. Ghosts, spectres, wraiths, etc)?

The undead have their uses, in all their manifold manifestations. The spectral undead, while certainly very scary, don’t give you the sort of mileage you need in the physical world. Have you ever tried to move to a new dread lair using only phantasms to shift boxes? If you have, it’s a damned good thing you’re an immortal liche, because otherwise you’d have died waiting. Similarly, a zombie alone won’t be much use in a haunting.

That said, I’m going to dodge the question a bit by saying that my personal favourite kind of undead is the kind that is both corporeal and incorporeal at the same time. While these seldom occur naturally in the wild, a talented necromancer should be able to cook them up with a little ingenuity.

For those of you who can’t think of your own, here are some of my personal favourite insubstantial undead that also have a little heft to them:

A haunted ghoul A poltergeist that is currently possessing a skeleton A zombie having an out of body experience The ghost of a vampire An astral-projecting mummy

Of course, there’s really only one correct answer to this question. A corpse kept from death by having its soul tethered to this plane by eldritch magicks and the creation of a phylactery?

Lich lifestyle… or unlifestyle. Whatever.