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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5216267" data-attributes="member: 87792">How so?  Yours is one which means that the entire section on guidelines of expected power levels in various areas must be trashed.  Or are you simply looking at the page which says the DM controls the game?See below for a standard D&D paradigm.  Or look up the expected character levels by area from the 3e DMG (mine's with a friend) and tell me that that isn't now thoroughly destroyed.Except what you are saying changed includes her personality (she became a driven and dedicated magical researcher and spellcaster), her stats (notably Int), and her capabilities (notably cash and resources).  From the 2e Monstrous Manual: Lich: Intelligence: Supra-genius (19-20)."They were originally wizards of at least 18th level""In order to become a lich, the wizard must prepare its phylactery by the use of the enchant an item, magic jar, permanency and reincarnation spells.  ... must be of the finest craftsmanship and materials of not less than 1,500 gold pieces per level of the wizard. ... craft a potion of extreme toxicity which is then enchanted with the following spells: wraithform, permanency, cone of cold, feign death and animate dead."She'd better have been working damn hard to pull that little list off in ten years.  Even simply raising 27,000GPs for the cheapest possible phylactery is asking a lot for most NPCs.  Frankly, changing into a tentacle monster from the neck down is a whole lot more plausible - when personality, capabilities, and stats have changed like that (especially personality) about all that's left is name and memories.</blockquote>

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