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With Halloween just around the corner, it would seem appropriate to have some sort of horror theme for a game. And what’s more iconic of horror than zombies?

Of course, there’s different kinds of zombies too. Here are three different kinds of them:

1. Slow and sluggish. This is your typical zombie that you’re probably used to seeing, whether it be your typical D&D zombie, or those zombies from the Resident Evil games.
2. Fast and scary. And hey, because these guys are fast, they’re going to be scary, since you can’t outrun them! These are the kinds of zombies that you’ll find in Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later.
3. Headcrabs. Yes, the headcrabs themselves are just small little creatures, and aren’t even zombies themselves. Instead, they make people into zombies by latching onto their heads and taking control. Though, what I like about these kinds of zombies is that you’ll get different kinds of zombies. This is particularly evident if you’ve played through Half-Life 2. And in case you’ve never even heard of the Half-Life games, there’s a pretty good headcrab article on Wikipedia.

Of course you don’t have to use headcrabs themselves. You can just make up some sort of parasitic race that takes over other creatures and effectively do the same thing. Or you could even dump the whole idea of a parasite and just use the mix of different kinds of zombies, making up your own reason for why they exist. You’re the DM afterall!

What other kinds of zombies do you know of that would make for a great D&D horror campaign?