Bodaks, Mohrgs and Hitler

[Wids]

Okay, so I'm home now, I felt like doodling something quick and nifty, and I've been bouncing this question around in my head for a while: 

As per everyone's favorite tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, when someone is killed at the hands of absolute evil, he may return from death as a bodak. 

And when someone who is absolutely evil dies without atoning for his atrocities, he may return from death as a mohrg. 

Most people will agree that Adolf Hitler was among the most absolutely evil people who have ever walked the earth; he is the reason that the internet coined Godwin's Law, after all. 

Hitler died without atoning for his many crimes (if atonement was even possible by that point). He also died by his own hand, choosing suicide over surrender when retribution came knocking. 

So if the Gods of Undeath decided to kick Hitler out of whichever Hell he landed in, would he return from death as a bodak or as a mohrg? 

Discuss! 

[Wids]

Gah! Oh, poopy, I have one of Mohrg Hitler's pulpy intestine-gut-fleshy things passing through a buttoned button! I also forgot to shade that one pin on Bodak Hitler's chest, and his left thigh needs to be thicker to match the foreshortening.

Friggin' rookie mistakes! Where are my sketching pencils? I need to fix this.

[hungrycrow]

Hitler is alive and living in Antarctica as a brain transplanted into a series of Argentinian twins. And yes, he is still evil.

[Wids]

Jun 15, 2018 19:13:31 GMT -5 hungrycrow said:

Hitler is alive and living in Antarctica as a brain transplanted into a series of Argentinian twins. And yes, he is still evil.

...and he's still playing Texas Hold 'Em with Elvis Presley and Jimmy Hoffa on the weekends, right?  

[hungrycrow]

I think he had to stop that when he married Amelia Earhart.

[hungrycrow]

Plus Elvis would NEVER play with Hitler.

[Wids]

So anyway, Bodak Hitler or Mohrg Hitler?  And why? 

[hungrycrow]

After some consideration I think the best way to play an undead Hitler would be as a Lich. Yep that perennial go to boss villain the lich. But, hear me out. Hitler could start as a mage specializing in the enchantment/charm school, hypnotizing villagers, monsters, townsfolk, the masses,..etc. Then as a lich he could retain some of these powers using them to dominate the players and turning simple townsfolk against the party. That's my call, undead Hitler is a charm school Lich.

Maybe you can even call him Adolf Leichmann.

[hungrycrow]

Yes I know that technically a lich is not undead. And yes that makes sense in terms of Turn undead and undead specific damage. But this is a hypothetical what if Hitler was active beyond the grave.

[Wids]

Liches also tend to be possessed of great Intelligence and Wisdom, don't forget. Liches aren't quite so likely to make grave mistakes which end up costing them everything...for example, breaking a non-aggression pact to attack Russia for no good reason (especially while already busy with Great Britain, the United States and Canada on the Western Front), then attacking Russia right before the dead of winter, then alienating your ally Finland right after you just witnessed that, unlike you and your Germany, Finland can beat Russia in a winter war....

Hitler was just too big of an idiot to be a lich.  If you're looking for Mister Charm, Hitler would be a vampire at best. 

But really, vampires tend to be created by other vampires and don't usually come into being on their own.  Know which kinds of undead can come into being on their own, based on sheer evilness?  Bodaks and mohrgs.   

(Hey, don't discount those two just yet!  Your garden-variety bodak has a Charisma of 12; Mohrgs have 10.  Good thing Hitler got it on with Eva Brawn while he was alive, huh?  Still, that might be enough Charisma to get someone to hear you out, especially if you go the Libris Mortis route and play either one as a level-uppable character.  You can even pick Mohrg as a Racial Class!  Do that and bump your Charisma up every four Levels, and you'll have no trouble scrounging up enough goons to throw a beer hall putsch.  )

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