Slam (Animate Dead Zombie)

This article is about the version of the attack used by zombies summoned by Animate Dead. For the weaker version used by normal zombies, see Slam (Zombie). For other uses, see Slam (disambiguation).

Slam is a the basic attack used by zombies reanimated with  Animate Dead or  Fungal Infestation which hits the target for bludgeoning damage and possibly infects it with the  Crawling Gnaw, a disease that can spawn new zombies if the target dies.

Description

Hit a target with your bare fists and infect it with the  Crawling Gnaw.

Constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, undead, and members of your adventuring party can't be infected.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Damage: 2~12 + modifiers

2d6 + Strength modifierBludgeoning

Details

Melee unarmed attack roll

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5 ft

Condition: Crawling Gnaw

 Crawling Gnaw

Duration: 1 turn

• Target is inflicted with zombie mucus. If the affected entity dies before the infection wears off, it will temporarily rise as a Newborn Zombie.
• Newborn Zombies are statistically the same as the Summoned Zombie, except that they only have 10 Hit Points, and they have the condition Newborn Zombie, causing them to take 1Necrotic damage per turn.
• Newborn Zombies will follow the original Summoned Zombie.

How to learn

Used by creatures: Fungal Zombie, and Zombie (Animate Dead)