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    In DnD it’s because most undead are damned and tortured souls enslaved by dark magic to the bidding of their twisted masters.

    The skellingtons are looking at you, the real you, the core of your very existence with their soul eyeballs. And they hate you, because you are alive, and they aren’t just dead, they’re being tortured every moment of their existence.

    But, hey, tell me more about your perfect medieval civilization built on raising zombie field hands.

    /Jokekilling

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      It’s a very simple matter 2 and maybe mind 3 effect, for simple commands and routines. No ghosts involved!

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        I’m not familiar with the modern rules. Can mages still go insane from levitating a Kleenex in front of normies?

  • Ech
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    282 months ago

    You know how their jumble of bones pulls together when you get close? Their bones wanna do that with your bones, and the osteonetic attraction that pulls their bones together let’s them know where your bones are, too.

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      102 months ago

      So all you would have to do to avoid this fate would be to pull out your own bones from your body, interesting…

    • enkers
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      Their bones are actually inert. Your bones just want to join their bones doing fuck all all day long. Their bones are doing your bones’ bidding.

  • @givesomefucks
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    The same way they’re able to take human shape and move instead of sitting in a pile…

    Shit, some of them talk

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      “Your bones are wet in you.”

      Unpleasant. Mmh. No, no thank you.

  • Lad
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    How do they not just collapse into a pile of bones?

    • aname
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      One could argue, that joints are part of the skeleton.

      • skulblaka
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        Cartilage isn’t.

        But, as always, the real answer is “a wizard did it”. Skeletons don’t just hop up and animate themselves.

        • aname
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          Skeletons don’t just hop up and animate themselves.

          Tell me you are from US without saying you are from US, lol

          • skulblaka
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            102 months ago

            This wouldn’t be nearly the first time I’ve said some stupid Americanism without realizing it, but mind telling me what it was at least?

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              Your skeletons don’t seem to rise from the ground. Common American problem, don’t need to feel bad about it.

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                62 months ago

                Problem? I’d like to know what your raised skeletons are doing that makes them a positive on your community.

                • aname
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                  32 months ago

                  Stop being such a racist. They’re part of the community like you and me.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Well great great grandpa is a wonderful story teller for the kids and you wouldn’t believe how big of an area on a field my second great aunt thirteen times removed can clear in one day.

        • @noobface
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          Mine does, but I need an elaborate system of organic strings to make it work and an over powered processor.

  • @MrPommeroy
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    So the ultimate counter to skeletons are octopuses.

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      Nah your skeleton is held prisoner by your meatsuit. The other skeletons are just trying to liberate it.

  • @aeronmelon
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    A dungeon suddenly becomes the corridors of the Nostromo. No matter where you hide, the skeletons can sense your BONES!

  • THCDenton
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    I keep my skeleton in line by occasionally breaking bones. Gotta make sure it knows who’s boss.