Savage Worlds Free Bestiary - Savagepedia

22.1. ZOMBIES CHAPTER 22. Z
– Weakness (Daylight): Bright light, especially sunlight, is painful
to the Rage zombies. Unless directly provoked, they won’t venture
into sunlight, and if they do, they suffer a -2 penalty to all
their rolls.
22.1.2. Shambling Dead (Romero Zombie)
These zombies are mindless automatons with a taste for living human
flesh. They ’re attracted by light and noise, and have been known to seek
out familiar places and continue old routines even in death. Individually
they ’re usually not a match for an armed foe, but in packs of a dozen (or
fifty, or a hundred...) they shouldn’ t be underestimated.
• Attributes: Agility d4, Smarts d6 (A), Spirit d6, Strength d6, Vigor d6
• Skills: Fighting d6, Guts d6, Notice d4
• Pace: 4 ; Parry: 3; Toughness: 7
• Special Abilities:
– Bite/Claws: Str damage.
– Fear
– Fearless: Shambling zombies are immune to Fear and Intimidation,
with one exception: they have an animals instinctive fear of
fire, and suffer a -2 to any Guts checks involving fire.
– Infection: Anyone bitten by a shambler must immediately make a
Vigor roll at -2; failure means that they’ve been infected. The disease
will incubate for 1d6 hours, at which point the victim must
make subsequent Vigor rolls, also at -2, each hour or become
Fatigued. When reduced to Incapacitated, the victim dies and
within 1d4 minutes will rise as a new shambling dead. There is
no cure or treatment. Anyone killed by them always comes back
as a shambler, in 1d4 minutes.
– Invulnerability: Attacks to anywhere but the head can only leave
a shambler Shaken; they can only be killed by injury to the brain.
(Dismemberment, by making called shots to the limbs with an
edged weapon, will render them helpless of course, and attacks
which effect the body as a whole, such as explosions or fire, will
kill the zombie as well.)
– Slow: Shamblers have a Pace of 4 and cannot run. They’ re
largely incapable of defending themselves as well, suffering a
-2 Parry.
– Undead: +2 Toughness; +2 to recover from being Shaken; Called
shots do no extra damage (except to the head).
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