[SelfishGene]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
The fatigue replenishment isn't important at all to a 0 encumbrance unit unless you are dealing with lots of opponents with air or astral magic.

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This would harm all the non-undead units a huge amount more than the undead ones.

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Including the Liches? That would make them utterly useless as they will always be fatigued as spellcasters. I don't see why reforming their bodies automatically should have anything to do with whether they are conscious or not.

Hmm probably right, i added that suggestion without thinking it through as much at the end of the post. I also forgot the VQ was a 0 encumberance unit. However, fatigue does degrade a units defense and makes it easier to hit, and a VQ does have to accumulate some fatigue to cast her support magic. It might only help 10%, but it would help if that starting fatigue stayed with her longer. But your right about the immortality.

An ideal solution might be to change the Undead attribute into a unique Vampire attribute. That way you could easily add certain balancing weaknesses. Vampires are certainly undead but i think you could make a case that they are sufficiently different in the fiction to merit their own catagory. After all you don't have to die to become a vampire, or at least 'death' has some different meaning than death for something like an undead zombie.