.......They demonstrate Animate Dead, and we see the zombie's 'crawling gnaw' trait, which is the zombie infection – there appeared to be no save for this, other than the hit. We see, also that it appears to affect ANY living creature, regardless of type or size, and results in a regular humanoid zombie. In hilarious bad management and production, Swen and crew decided that the best way to show this off was to use it on the owlbear... creating the asinine juxtaposition of the owlbear dying and raising as a humanoid zombie, and playing the cutscene where the cub eats the very-much-still-an-owlbear and very-much-still-dead corpse. They laugh at the absolute non-sequitur of this. So funny. So convincing. Great advertising.
....... They talk about making sure that naughty people don't get presents... odd angle to pitch the skit from... but we continue talking about some of the spells... including, apparently a massively overpowered homebrew buff to animate dead... that causes zombies you raise to be able to turn other humanoids into zombies as well, exponentially... despite the fact that that's not how undead work in the Realms... but oh well, I guess we don't care about that?
Meanwhile, Santa grows tired of the honestly-not-a-vampire next to him trying to sneak peeks at his naughty list, and after a brief scuffle mid-set, murders him with a divine smite. Or not, as it turns out; killing would be a violation of his santa-paladin oath.
I want to play a santa paladin now.
Ahem.
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Hahaha. This bit just sums up Larian's BG3 so well! Brilliant. Turning D&D into silly fun. BG/D&D classic fans going nuts. Larian fans lovin it lol.
