Product Description: All about the most horrifying monsters of D&D(R)--the walking dead!
The sourcebook provides information about undead origins, tactics, myths, lairs, behaviors, and more. In addition, this book provides elaborate lair entries (including tactical encounters) for undead at each tier of play. Broad story and campaign elements in Open Grave give DMs ready-to-play material than can be easily incorporated into a game, such as undead templates and power substitutions, adventure hooks and quests, and statistics for unique undead such as Acererak and Vecna.
Open Grave: Secrets of the Undead depicts a host of new undead, including new varieties of zombies, wraiths, skeletons, ghouls, and vampires. Open Grave also introduces several completely new types of undead, such as moongaunts, forsaken shells, and death oozes, to name just a few.
The dead walk... ... and speak and feel, with Open Grave. This expansion of the 4E D&D universe is an interesting aide to a harried DM. Like any of the 4E expansion products, this book is not necessary to play the game or even run an campaign centered around the undead. This supplement is for the DM who might not have time to sit down and write up a 6 page background on his undead cult. It provides easy to use powers and enhancements to beef up a memorable villain, as well as assorted undead minions and foot-soldiers to harry your players with.
The 3 star ranking for this supplement comes from the nearly complete lack of Player options in this book. While I know this is a book for the DMs, I wouldn't mind a couple of feats or paragon path or 2 relating to the undead. I'm sure we'll see that when PHB3, 4 or 5 hits.
Undead brought to life This a five-star supplement. It provides extensive background and ideas on undead and how to incorporate them into your existing campaign or how to create an entire campaign based around undead. It also offers new monsters and rituals, magic items, etc.
Excellent! Just got this, and have already used about half of it. Well laid out. Full of useful content. If only the other 4E books could be of this same quality.
All you could want It has lots of great new undead creature stats, lots of legendary named undead characters, and rules and stats for Vecna himself. If you picked up the Draconomicon, you know what you're in store for.
Only the needed things In this book we get a lot of useful things regarding undeads. It put together useful rules from the book of vile darkness, with a bunch of monsters and handful background information. It contains also a demo adventure.
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