How many types of undead are there?

Fear the Dead In the earliest days of the game’s history, there were only eight types of undead: skeletons, zombies, ghouls, wights, wraiths, mummies, spectres, and vampires. These were joined by the mighty liches in Supplement I: Greyhawk (1975) and by ghasts and ghosts in the Monster Manual (1977).

Which creatures are undead?

A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased’s own life force or that of another being (such as a demon). The undead may be incorporeal (ghosts) or corporeal (mummies, vampires and zombies).

What is undeath?

Filters. The state of being undead. After the vampire bit me, I passed from life to undeath. noun.

Do undead have souls?

An undead may have a soul, but it probably cannot cast Magic Jar. Unlike previous editions of D&D, the undead creature type is just a classification in 5th edition.

Do the undead have souls?

Liches explicitly place their soul in a phylactery (presumably to bind it to their own body). Ghouls aren’t undead, but just hang around on graveyards; mummification is a form of corpse preservation; ghast is a variation on ghost. So, concluding: yes, undead have souls.

Can undead be good?

A good undead could exist in the sense that their goals and drives were not selfishly based but simple undead of good alignment would not be truly good but more so useful. Like a tool. As the process that created them was likely tragic and the energies to do so do not for their sake but for the sake of others.

Do Wights have souls DND?

Wights retained their personalities and memories in the undeath. They possessed free will at the same time as they were tasked to perform the bidding of the evil powers that brought them back. Even though wights hungered for living beings’ energy, they did not require it as a source of sustenance.