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Hallo, those are my suggestions for undead:

- You can select what undead you are. This means you are an undead human, undead elf, undead dwarf, . . . and so on. This determines your look and the base stats are the same as this race. You do not get any racial abilities of your race that require metabolism (like lizards like it hot and dislike cold) but maybe they keep some others (lizards keep their tail, sorry I cannot think of examples for "normal" races). If undead are able to hide the fact that they are undead, they appear as this race to others (like an undead elf looks like a normal elf). I am not an expert for this universe, but in most fantasy worlds undead belonged to a "normal race" before becoming undead.

- Undead have stats (like constitution) like any other race. It makes no sense to make a different attribute system for 1 race.

-undead racial skills:
+ they are immun to several status effects (poison, bleed, whatever makes sense when you have no metabolism
+ They can drain health from other living creatures (people and animals, no undead or elementals)
+they can infect others with disease with a melee attack
- Healing effects harm them. They can only heal themselves with drain abilities or things like leech. Maybe there are healing items and spells but there is a cost (like they need more AP, or they cause also a negative effect or they are rare and work only for undead)
- most people react negative on undead. You have to do something to keep up your disguise (like drinking blood?)

-special source ability:
soul eater: you absorb energy from all creatures X meters around you. It will damage them and heal you. It works on all types of creatures, though some may have some damage resistance. If you kill an enemy with this skill, you get a temporary bonus. Using this skill makes you more evil. (When I think about it, this sound a bit generic and it looks overpowered if you can use it often. This was inspired by Mask of the Betrayer.)

Edit: I have an idea: When you use healing items or spells that can heal undead, you loose your disguise and everybody will see that you are undead.