Classic: Undead

Classic: Undead (1998) covers everything from subtle hauntings to undead necromancers, from Gothic vampires to the brain-eating zombies of the B-movies. Fourth Edition versions of nearly all the templates provided appear in GURPS Fantasy, GURPS Horror, and GURPS Zombies.
==At the Door of the Crypt==
* Religion and the Undead
** Spiritualism
** Eschatology
** Thanatology
** Funerary Rites
** The Soul
* A Brief History of the Undead
** The Earliest Beliefs
** Ancient and Classical Beliefs: Mesopotamian, Egypt, Zoroastrianism, Greeks, Romans, Gnostics, Jews, Early Christianity 
** Eastern Beliefs: India, China, Japan, Tibet
** The Middle Ages
** Pre-Columbian America
** The Age of Reason
** The Age of Industry
** The Modern World
* Todays Undead
* The Trappings of Undeath
==Dealing with the Dead==
* Awakening the Dead
**The Restless Dead: Ghosts, Revenants and Tomb Guardians
**The Willful Dead: Vampires, Liches and Wraiths
**The Enslaved Dead: Zombies, Duppies and Undead Minions
**Poseurs: "Not everything that looks undead is undead"
* The Undead Condition
* Killing the Undead
==The Mechanics of Reanimation==
* Corporeal and Spectral Undead
* Motivation: Restless, Willful, and Enslaved Dead
==Special Powers==
* Attribute Modifiers, Advantages, (Mitigating or Removing), Disadvantages, Innate Spells and Inherent Magic (Knacks); Psionics and Super Powers; and Skills 
* Special Weaknesses: Needs, Repulsions, Vulnerabilities, Missing Advantages, and Other Disadvantages
==The Mortuary==
Links are to the 4e versions
* Ghost
* LichD&D Lich in GURPS shows how to build a D&D inspired lich
* Mummy
* Revenant
* Shade
* Shadow
* Skeleton
* Specter
* Vampire (also see Classic: Blood Types)
* Wight
* Wraith
* Zombie (also see GURPS Zombies)
* Other Undead
** Non humans
* Beasts (includes swarms)
* Weirder Undead
** Undead Microbes, Undead Plants, Undead Vehicles
** Variant Zombie Spells
==Characters==
* Living Characters
** Advantages, Disadvantages
* Undead Characters
** Buying Undead: Racial Templates
** Magical Undead
** Psionic Undead
** Skills
** Special Powers
** Undead Character Templates
==Campaigns==
* Defining the Undead
** Origins
** Types, Power Level, Interactions
* Using the Undead
** Quantity & Rarity, Location, Sample Campaigns
* Society and the Undead
** Myth, Legend & Folklore vs. Fact
** Attitudes Toward the Undead
* Undead Foes
** Monsters, Minions of Evil, Hunters, Dark Lords
* Undead Heroes
** Forbidden Ground
** Passing Through the Veil
* Undead, Undead Everywhere
* In the Company of Corpses: Mixed Groups
* A Brief History of Undead Imagery
* Using Undead with Other GURPS Books
==See Also==
*Corporeal Undead Meta-Traits
==Additional and Related Material==
* Classic: Faerie
* Classic: Spirits
* GURPS Horror
* GURPS Update
* GURPS Zombies
*Scraps From the Grave: GURPS Undead Outtakes
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Classic
Category:1998
Category:Undead