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Spooky Scary Skeletons

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The ideal skeleton army is in 4k Ultra HD   This one's short! I haven't blogged in a bit, and since tomorrow's Halloween, I thought I'd take a look over at our favorite skele-bois. If I still feel in the Halloween mood in a week, I'll probably do hags next. Also, as a little (actually kinda big) announcement, I made a thing! It's called Into the Odd+ , it's free on itch.io, and it's a really tight 3-page Odd-hack to get the vibe of 5E with an Into the Odd inspired ruleset. It's also what I'm playing right now. Anyways,   Skeleton Basics The goal is to make skeletons really fun to clobber with as few tweaks to the base stats as possible. Let's start with what we know from fantasy media: skeletons are generally weak to smash-y weapons (clubs, hammers, etc.) but not to slashy and stabby ones you can make them out of anything that has bones often lingering in crypts, graveyards, and the armies of evil necromancers the limbs and heads keep bounci