Fiendish Grafts

[The Shadow Lich]

Im playing a 18th level human wizard. Now here's my question my wizard has 6 different fiendish grafts, and im thinking about having him become a lich. When he becomes undead would the grafts die? I would think not since the living can have undead grafts. But outsiders cant become undead and the grafts did come from outsiders. What about critical hits if the grafts are not undead and they make up most of my characters body would he still be immune to critical hits after becoming undead?

 

[Nifft]

Welcome to EN World!

In my opinion, grafts are a waste for a lich, because the lich's best feature is switching bodies. So even if they work initially, your grafts won't come with you when you return to your phylactery.

Cheers, -- N

 

[The Shadow Lich]

If thats the case does that mean a creature that has abilities like 120ft darkvision or fast healing based on there race does not get that anymore since they came back in a new body?

 

[Nifft]

According to the template, you retain your racial special attacks and special qualities -- I assume magic is involved. However, I've always thought of grafts as equipment... if you can convince your DM that grafts are inherent to your person rather than equipment, you may get away with it the result you want.

Cheers, -- N

 

[The Shadow Lich]

Well I actually took the winged creature template out of savage species and had told my DM that though not a half fiend part of my characters background was my father was a fiend. I asked my DM if for story line purposes I could just subtract the money from my character sheet and get a graft more like I was turning into a fiend as my character matured. He went along with it so maybee he will allow that. Thanks for the advice.

 

[Nifft]

If you're evil, you could go with a more complex route:

1/ Buy the wings & template (Dex +2, Wis +2) as a racial feature (LA +1).

2/ Use the UA LA buy-off rules to reduce your LA by spending XP.

3/ Use the BoVD souls-as-XP rules. Buy souls to pay off your XP debt instead of using your own XP.

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Assuming a soul costs 100 gp and gives you 5 xp, that works out to be: 3,000 xp * 100 gp / 5 xp = 60,000 gp

If your graft cost more than 60,000 gp, it's about balanced (according to supplementary rules in three poorly-tested variants)

Cheers, -- N