I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. Well, not really, I play Pathfinder. It’s kind of the same but also very different. I can’t explain it all here, so just look it up. For all intents and purposes, though, I play D&D. Every monster you can think of has stats in D&D and can be battled: Wendigos, Oni, Draugr, Manticores, Golems, The Star-Spawn of Cthulu, those four-armed white ape monsters from John Carter of Mars, all of them. So, obviously, D&D has Zombies and other kinds of undead.
I should explain that D&D has no one setting. Players can design their own world with its own lore. There are, however, certain preset worlds players can use if they desire. Probably the most popular is Forgotten Realms, but others exist such as Eberron, Greyhawk, Krynn, and so forth. I’ll specify when things are specific to one world.
D&D is full of different races: Elves, Halflings, Orcs, etc. In most worlds, pretty much any creature, including these ones. Forgotten Realms really likes to create specific subtypes of monsters. As such, they have Absorbing Zombies (who can absorb magical spells), Acid Zombies (who ooze acid) and, yes, Zombie Dragons. Yes!
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D&D’s ghouls are also basically Zombies. They are undead who eat people and can infect you with a bite. They’re not really rot-ridden, and can paralyze most people (except for elves) with a touch. I’ve always really liked these guys.
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Point being, Zombies and other undead can exist in non-Earth, fantasy settings.
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