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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3502965" data-attributes="member: 8461">Well, I was going to suggest the akalich template (akaliches are to demiliches, as demiliches are to normal liches) from the <a href="http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=6118&" target="_blank">Immortal's Handbook Epic Bestiary Vol. 1</a>, but that won't work if you want CR 35 or less, as the template itself is CR +38. I recommend that you purchase this book anyway, however, for the crazy load of new epic magic weapons and major artifacts it has. Also, by using the Automatic Metamagic Capacity feat (taken multiple times) and Quicken Spell, Vlaakith will be able to cast multiple quickened spells in a single round. This should help with your counterspell-happy wizard.The dread lich template from the <a href="http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=487&products_id=4172&" target="_blank">Advanced Bestiary</a>, by Green Ronin, may work better instead, as far as templates go. A CR +3 lich template, this has quite a few more powers than a standard lich does.Make some of her dragons who personally guard her <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/dragonAdvanced.htm" target="_blank">Advanced dragons</a>. Her other guards should similarly be at least CR 21 or higher. If you're advancing her level, then it only makes sense that she'd raise the ban on the githyanki to being higher than 16th level.Do NOT make her a dread necromancer. That class's class abilities are geared towards being lich-like before you become a lich. Since you're building her as a lich already, those class abilities are thus wasted. Instead, I recommend you make her a <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm" target="_blank">gestalt character</a>, perhaps of wizard and cleric (she can be a cleric with no god, essentially granting herself divine spells) for maximum spellcasting versatility.Make sure to consult Libris Mortis for feats and things regarding buffing her undead state. If you ever feel that Vlaakith needs more feats than she has, take levels in the Savant prestige class in <a href="http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4676&" target="_blank">Paths of Power</a>, by Distant Horizon Games (this book is free!). That PrC grants three bonus feats at each level (though it has quite a few restrictions, she should easily meet them all); this could be very helpful if she needs to take Automatic Metamagic Capacity multiple times (as stated above).Take a creature that'd scare even your PCs (perhaps the Tarrasque with the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monsters/paragonCreature.htm" target="_blank">Paragon template</a> applied) and have it that Vlaakith successfully cast trap the soul on it, with her phylactery as the focus object (I can't remember if her phylactery is a gem or not, but if not, you can change it so it is). Have her tell the PCs that, so they know that if they destroy her phylactery, they'll be unleashing this massive beast immediately on top of them!And just to be nitpicky, it's "Incursion," not "Invasion."</blockquote>

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