GURPS Undead

GURPS Undead is a 1998 classic GURPS reference book that covers everything from subtle hauntings to undead necromancers, from Gothic vampires to the brain-eating zombies of the B-movies. 4e 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, Rome 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
 * Lich
 * Mummy
 * Revenant
 * Shade
 * Shadow
 * Skeleton
 * Specter
 * Vampire (also see GURPS 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
 * You Know Too Much: Dealing With Player Knowledge
 * Using and Abusing Preconceptions


 * 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