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Message: <blockquote data-quote="munkeywrench" data-source="post: 4540399" data-attributes="member: 56150">I'm digging this new monster! I can already imagine the setup for an adventure:A two-bit necromancer, tired of being the loser among his peers, decides that he's going to go get himself a dracolich to make them all jealous. There's just a few hangups:1) He doesn't have the funds to go out an buy the expensive components needed for the ritual.2) Even if he did have all the stuff he needs, he still doesn't know how to cast the lich ritual correctly.3) Regardless of the two reasons above, he'd still have to con a dragon into participating and a CHA score of 7 ain't gonna cut it.So what does he do? Improvise! He gathers together a bunch of dragon remains and hammers together a workable frame. For the phylactery, he just picks a part of the frame that looks the most expensive and draws onto it the proper runes. For the dracolich ritual, he fills in the gaps with parts of resurrection rituals. Not perfect, but good enough.As the ritual is performed, the bones that make up the frame convulse violently. The resurrection portions of the patchwork ritual begin to bring back the souls of all the dragons whose remains make up the monstrosity. It isn't working though. Only bits and pieces of each soul are being brought back and placed into the skeletal frame. The dracolich portions of the ritual kick in and the bits and pieces of soul are hideously compacted together inside the makeshift phylactery. The ritual then ends in a bright flash of necrotic light.The necromancer beholds his creation. It roars and writhes with anguish and hatred, but follows orders and seems unable to bring itself to suicide. Not quite perfect, but good enough. A few more of these and kings will be bowing to him by the end of the month. Sure, it's not REALLY a true dracolich, but whose going to argue with him when he's sitting on a mountain of treasure surrounded by beautiful women?--All that from a paragraph of fluff</blockquote>

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