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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zephyrus" data-source="post: 1851045" data-attributes="member: 8728">I manged to come up with a few ideas (including I belive somewhere is a template for an Demon-Lich which I recall having heard about somewhere.. cant recall off the top of my head)...However... as awful as the idea I thought might work best.... well you are dealing with a crisis of faith here....A Pregnant Necromancer... perhaps 6 months along or so. Definitly too early to survive as a premie and too far along that the infant will definitly have the makings for a soul etc.This as I said as awful as it sounds has perhaps the most rounded set of possible RP hooks that wont force the characters immediatly into black/white decisions. perhaps the most dangerous crisis of faith are the gray answers.Obviously Killing the mother will kill the child (much like your lich issue)Obviously Evil Necromancer on the loose is bad (much like your luch issue)However the potential for solutions are more attainable. The mother can be subdued. Direct conflict risks the child but perhaps their are round-abouts. Even then, their are longer term problems as even if they succeed at capturing the Necromancer the child remains at risk while still unborn. Handling that can be an extended matter.The situation can be further confounded by the mother being posessed or similar and thus not acting of her own volition. With enough Hit Dice and Turn resistance the ghost can stave off being turned to remove the possession. Being a paladin that should help as their turning is weaker, however I dont know if the group may also contain a cleric. Perhaps further, even after the ghost is removed the child remains in danger of being possessed itself and the mother becoming the victim (cliche perhaps but it became a cliche for a reason). The Ghost my be excised from the child but parent or child or both may have been tainted by the possession.Cures to remove this taint could be an adventure in itself (perhaps, provided the paladin does 'well enough' in his handling of the situtation his goddess rewards him with the quest <some reward huh!?> to find this cure to remove the taint). On the other hand, maybe the 'vision' is false and the paladin may unwittingly be sent on a fools errand or worse. Perhaps the paladin themselves becomes posessed, but doesnt know it...These all make the situation 'not so simple' and also continues it into more than simple one-off situations but rather an on going thing. Consider making the Ghost a Pale Master or True Necromancer or maybe a Necromancer Wizard/Acolyte or the Skin (say a Succubus or Eryine). The last of the bunch could be interesting if using a Ghost route I mentioned.  The ghost perhaps attempting to gain Acolyte of the Skin levels onto the creature it possess.Food for thought. Hope I dident scare anyone.. (asside from my self)</blockquote>

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