Zombie Apocalypse: Difference between revisions
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** In the previous edition, [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/wight.htm wights] are probably the closest thing to more traditional zombies.
** ''[[Greyhawk|The World of Greyhawk]]'' campaign setting included a zombie variant known as a "Son of Kyuss," which was an aggressive zombie with green worms crawling about in its eye sockets. If the worms landed on someone, they burrowed under that person's skin and attempted to reach the brain, at which point the victim would become another Son of Kyuss. Given the nature of some of the beings in the game, these creatures were probably too weak to cause a full-scale apocalypse, but they could easily wipe out an entire village of zero-level humans.
*** In fact, the "Age of Worms" campaign (from ''[[Dungeon (magazine)|DUNGEON]] magazine'') confirms this is the actual goal of Kyuss himself, an imprisoned Elder Evil. He believes that replacing all living humans in the world with undead under his command will make it far easier to free him from his prison and then bring about the eponymous Age of Worms, something mentioned in the [[Religion of Evil]] that he founded.
** In the 3.5 edition book ''Elder Evils''<ref>This book also includes a scenario involving the aforementioned Kyuss, but it does not involve this Trope</ref> there's
* The board game ''Last Night on Earth'' has several different scenarios to play through during a Zombie Apocalypse.
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