Just a write-up of a general-purpose draugr for the Basic Fantasy RPG. If you play any old school D&D, it should be easily convertible.


Draugr
Armor Class: 17
Hit Dice: 9**
No. of Attacks: 1 (weapon)
Damage: 1d10+3
Movement: 30'
No. Appearing: 1
Save As: Fighter 9
Morale: 12
Treasure Type: B, M
XP: 1,225

Draugr are the undead remains of ancient nord kings. They appear as a skeleton wearing ancient plate mail. They wield an ancient nord two-handed sword in combat. They are only encountered in ancient crypts.

Draugr can see invisible opponents.

Once per turn, they can use a dragon shout. Anyone in front of the draugr when he shouts must make a Save vs. Spells or drop anything they are holding in their hands. Items dropped will scatter 10 feet behind the character.

Draugr may be turned as vampires. Draugr are immune to Sleep, Charm, and Hold spells.

I think the number of appearing is off. Several ruins they appear "many" show up at once. I would change that to 1-10. (I only think of one specific instance where there MIGHT have been more than 10, but I didn't count, I was too busy unleashing torrents of lightning and fire.)

Also only the overlords/leaders have dragon shouts.

I made this based off the bosses. Regular draugr are really just skeletons or zombies with more HD and a better AC.

A few of them have the first cold spell (Frostbite?) I'd have to check. Though it may be there are four tiers. Normal Guardian, Better Guardian, Overlord, Named Overlord

They can also summon Frost Atronachs once you get high enough in level.

there are several types-brokendown by weapon and/or magic capability listed on the Elder Scrolls wiki. Good info;

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Draugr

Aren't Draugr just stronger versions of skeletons flavored viking?  Not really too complex.

Now a really egregious example of skyrim is giants.  Giants are suppose to GIANT!  I was completely disappointed by the size of the giants in the game.  It really broke my verisimilitude.  Come on Bethe$ta, if you can have DRAGONS you can at least have decently sized giants.

Quote from: Stoutfish;500740Aren't Draugr just stronger versions of skeletons flavored viking?  Not really too complex.

Now a really egregious example of skyrim is giants.  Giants are suppose to GIANT!  I was completely disappointed by the size of the giants in the game.  It really broke my verisimilitude.  Come on Bethe$ta, if you can have DRAGONS you can at least have decently sized giants.

Yeah but in AD&D hill giants are only like 12ft tall.  That's barely "average guy on Manute Boll's shoulders" high

Wait, I thought Skyrim's giants were really, really bigass?

They're probably 11 or 12 feet tall. If they hit you, you'll either fly 100 feet up into the air or suddenly be 1 foot tall.  

I found their giants notable. People don't really get scale sometimes though (re: Hill giants) until you see it.

As for Draugr, there closer to being mummified. (Not Egyptian style, but buried in a moor/swamp style mummies.)

Quote from: danbuter;500745They're probably 11 or 12 feet tall. If they hit you, you'll either fly 100 feet up into the air or suddenly be 1 foot tall.  

Yeah. One of the things that really puzzled me about Skyrim is that I could take a dragon (or two, one time) without much trouble, but a giant could pancake me or knock me across the map in a heartbeat. Shouldn't dragons > giants?

Quote from: oktoberguard;500913Yeah. One of the things that really puzzled me about Skyrim is that I could take a dragon (or two, one time) without much trouble, but a giant could pancake me or knock me across the map in a heartbeat. Shouldn't dragons > giants?

In Nordic mythology Giants were second to gods. Well, Frost Giants aka Jotuns if I remember correctly, but sssh.

Quote from: Rincewind1;500914In Nordic mythology Giants were second to gods. Well, Frost Giants aka Jotuns if I remember correctly, but sssh.

Fair enough.

Not to mention, when you fight a giant, all he wants to do is flatten you for bothering him. Dragons spend half the fight attacking rabbits, farmers, saber tooth tigers, and whatever else happens to be around while you nova on them.