Invincible Lich

[Dandu]

Why not make it a wax figure?

 

[kitcik]

Make the phlyactery a seeming playing card and shuffle it into a Deck of Many Things.

Who will figure that out?

 

[Jack Simth]

Make the phlyactery a seeming playing card and shuffle it into a Deck of Many Things.

Who will figure that out?

Doesn't shuffling something into a deck of cards normally involved pulling off the top half of the Deck?

 

[kitcik]

. I meant "slip" it into the middle of the deck. Good thing you are not my DM - altho I think the limit is like 5 draws (at least it was in 1E)

 

[Tharkon]

Why not make it a wax figure?

Wax isn't as valuable.

Make the phlyactery a seeming playing card and shuffle it into a Deck of Many Things.

Who will figure that out?

It's covered with arcane writing, not with a picture.

. I meant "slip" it into the middle of the deck. Good thing you are not my DM - altho I think the limit is like 5 draws (at least it was in 1E)

And I don't think you can put something in between the cards of a Deck of Many Things, since although only slightly, this involves pulling apart the cards, wich can't be done without announcing to draw them.

And I don't remember any limit to the amount of cards drawn, but the amount of draws is 1 per creature.

 

[kitcik]

It's covered with arcane writing, not with a picture.

Not sure how that would impact the ability to slip it into the deck.

And I don't think you can put something in between the cards of a Deck of Many Things, since although only slightly, this involves pulling apart the cards, wich can't be done without announcing to draw them.

That may be so in your world, but I just read the description of the item and I don't see this as being RAW. So, if you have the right DM, this might be an interesting possibility.In fact, you could make it an actual playing card on the outside with a tiny secret pouch containing the strips of magical writings needed for the phylactery.

And I don't remember any limit to the amount of cards drawn...

Yes, now that I have read the 3.5 version, I see no limit as there was in 1E.

 

[Tharkon]

Not sure how that would impact the ability to slip it into the deck.

It would impact the ability to disguise it as a playing card.

That may be so in your world, but I just read the description of the item and I don't see this as being RAW. So, if you have the right DM, this might be an interesting possibility.In fact, you could make it an actual playing card on the outside with a tiny secret pouch containing the strips of magical writings needed for the phylactery.

I was refering to common sense and laws of physics, you can't put something between two other things without pulling those two apart.

Guess it was my own judgement though that they can't be pulled apart without drawing them, but otherwise it would mean it's possible to have the deck be in two places, and thus people being able to draw from different places of the deck, although the magic might only be effective for the original top part of the deck.

 

[kitcik]

This tangent is going a bit far so if you want the last word after this, it is yours.

It is not necessary to completely cut the deck in order to insert a card - in fact the card above and below the insertion can be touching each other at all times until the final millimeter. At that point, the two halves would be separated, but only by the thickness of a paying card - there would still be an intact "deck." To me, this would be ok, but I understand the counter-argument.

 

[Jacob]

To heck with that. By the d20 SRD, there's no particular limitation on the size or composition of the phylactery. So, make the planet's sun into a phylactery! Adventurers want to destroy the sun to get at the lich, they're welcome to try, for all the good it'll do them...

(I am having images of Chairface Chippendale as a lich, with the Moon as his phylactery.)

If any Lich is capable of forming a sun to house his soul, he's a god. He doesn't need to worry so much about mortals, but Pelor getting in his grill about messing with his smooth rays is another story. There can be only one...

 

[FoxWander]

Regarding the Deck of Many Things- don't bother with the deck itself, hide your phylactery in a secret compartment of the box that holds the deck! According to the deck description, it's "usually found in a box or leather pouch". Hide the phylactery as part of that container. Not many folks, even adventurers, would pay much attention to the box once they've opened it and found the Deck.

Oh, and to the part about hiding it AS a card and the writing not looking like pictures. Check out typography art!