I can't say for sure that the zombies in the Monster Manual are based on the zombies from Romero's "Night of the Living Dead,&...

 This section of the larger area is the home to the graves of the Queen's Elven sacrifices.  Rising from the graves are Grave Terrors, t...

 This section of the larger area is the home to the graves of the Queen's Elven sacrifices.  Rising from the graves are Alp, the elven u...

 This section of the larger area is the home to the graves of the Queen's Dwarven sacrifices.  Rising from the graves are Haugbui, the d...

 This section of the larger area is the home to the graves of many horses.  There are Undead Horses and Nightmares here. Undead Horses Arm...

 Moving into the larger area of Encounter Area 12.  These are the graves of the human sacrifices. There are 666 total graves, from these ris...

 The hallway of Encounter Area #11 opens up to a massive room filled with stone sarcophagi.  A plaque as the PCs enter describes this as the...

 Trying to wrap-up my entries for my Deities & Demigods II: The Black Forest Mythos this week. Here is a monster I have always wanted to...

 Stalking the halls of this maze are two Warp Beasts / Displacer Beasts . There is nothing out of the ordinary about these two, other than ...

 The monster in encounter area 8 can be smelled before it is seen. The creature crawling on all fours is a gigantic ghoul. It is about the s...

I am surprised I have not tried to stat these guys up before this. But this seems the perfect time to do it.   Draugr Draugr are powerful un...

 Today is the Feast of Saint Gall (October 16), and anyone born three days prior (October 13) risks becoming an Alp.  Depending on who you a...

 The end of this plane is a wall of stone. Carved into this stone is a huge Dwarven Mausoleum.  The door to this structure is sealed shut an...

 Moving past the area where the Ankou and his undead cows are "grazing," the party will encounter three wandering vampire girls. ...

 Beyond the tomb of the Blood Goblins, there is a 40% chance that the party will encounter the  Ankou and his undead herd. The Ankou is a f...

 Beyond the dragon and his horde the opening to an underground crypt can be found. The crypt itself is down about 15 feet into the ground an...

 Among the many graves there others (marked with 3).  These look like the other graves (marked with 2), but are deeper. They are occupied by...

 This level opens up to a very wide area that is obviously a cemetery or some sort of open-air mausoleum. There are grave markers, but most ...

 It is the first Monday of Autumn. I spent my weekend buying Halloween decorations and playing Baldur's Gate 3. My monster today was alm...

Ah. This one stuck with me as the most memorable encounter. It would have to be the first time I encountered a Lich in the AD&D 1st Edit...