Mummy (Dungeons & Dragons) - Variant Mummies and Mummy-like Creatures

Variant Mummies and Mummy-like Creatures

• Bog Mummy - corpses preserved through the natural action of bogs or swamps and animated through evil magic

• Clay Mummy - Unlike standard mummies, clay mummies are vulnerable to bludgeoning weapons rather than fire.

• Greater Mummy:The Greater mummy of the Dungeons and Dragons game is an undead mummified divine spellcaster, often a priest of an evil god of the Egyptian pantheon such as Set. More powerful than a typical mummy, greater mummies are similar to liches, as they are both powerful undead spellcasters. In appearance, greater mummies are typically indistinguishable from typical mummies except for their priestly garb which is often rich, though decayed, and usually including their divine patron's unholy symbol.

• Hunefer - the mummies of demigods whose power has not utterly departed to astral realms

• Huecuva - created from divine or oathbound creatures who have failed in their vows

• Ice Mummy - A creature that succumbs to an ice mummy's rot freezes and shatters, melting into nothing at the first thaw.

• Mummy lord - Mummy lords are often potent spellcasters. They are found as guardians of the tombs of high lords, priests, and mages. Most are sworn to defend for eternity the resting place of those whom they served in life, but in some cases a mummy lord's unliving state is the result of a terrible curse or rite designed to punish treason, infidelity, or crimes of an even more abhorrent nature. A mummy lord of this sort is usually imprisoned in a tomb that is never meant to be opened again.

• Crawling Apocalypse - a creature that resembles a giant mummified octopus

• Salt Mummy- ancient corpses of humanoids preserved by being buried in salt. Salt mummies were very evil when they were alive.