They can feel it in their bones
Skelekenesis
I keep my skeleton in line by occasionally breaking bones. Gotta make sure it knows who’s boss.
Are skeletons working against you? A necromancer dissertation
So the ultimate counter to skeletons are octopuses.
Octopuses have beaks. Are beaks considered part of a skeleton?
Afaik beaks are more like nails, hoofs and antlers in composition.
Nails, hooves, and rhino horn are all made of keratin; antlers are a little more complicated: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/horns-and-antlers-what-s-the-difference
I could swear some movie or video game taught me re-animated deer skeletons can have antlers.
In video game logic it needs antlers to be a deer.
Isn’t the proper plural term octopi?
Octopodes, actually.
Technically they’re all “correct”, just that octopodes is it most correct and coolest sounding
Free me from this flesh, brother
ExtraSkeletalPerception
Skelepathy
Bone sense
How do they not just collapse into a pile of bones?
One could argue, that joints are part of the skeleton.
Cartilage isn’t.
But, as always, the real answer is “a wizard did it”. Skeletons don’t just hop up and animate themselves.
Skeletons don’t just hop up and animate themselves.
Tell me you are from US without saying you are from US, lol
This wouldn’t be nearly the first time I’ve said some stupid Americanism without realizing it, but mind telling me what it was at least?
Your skeletons don’t seem to rise from the ground. Common American problem, don’t need to feel bad about it.
Problem? I’d like to know what your raised skeletons are doing that makes them a positive on your community.
Well great great grandpa is a wonderful story teller for the kids and you wouldn’t believe how big of an area on a field my second great aunt thirteen times removed can clear in one day.
Stop being such a racist. They’re part of the community like you and me.
Mine does, but I need an elaborate system of organic strings to make it work and an over powered processor.
The same way they’re able to take human shape and move instead of sitting in a pile…
Shit, some of them talk
Betrayel always comes from within.
It’s wet in you. They have to rescue your skeleton from drowning.
“Your bones are wet in you.”
Unpleasant. Mmh. No, no thank you.
snotelek to snotelek communication
In DnD it’s because most undead are damned and tortured souls enslaved by dark magic to the bidding of their twisted masters.
The skellingtons are looking at you, the real you, the core of your very existence with their soul eyeballs. And they hate you, because you are alive, and they aren’t just dead, they’re being tortured every moment of their existence.
But, hey, tell me more about your perfect medieval civilization built on raising zombie field hands.
/Jokekilling