Kickstarter "Liches: Dance Macabre"

[Texas in August Studio]

Sample pages, featuring a lexicon and commentary;

 

[Texas in August Studio]

A list of expanded lich powers, which will be appearing in the book.

 

[Texas in August Studio]

I'm setting a firm kickstarter date of July 27th.

 

[Tonguez]

so no Baelonorn? Do you have room for Good aligned Liches?

Also any Evil Sultans with their Hearts hidden in forbidding towers protected by giant fists of doom?

Characters becoming Liches

 

[Blue Orange]

Koschei the Undying, from Russian folklore, you sometimes see mentioned as the original literary inspiration. He was a long-lived sorceror who would hide his soul in some nested object so he couldn't be killed (a needle in an egg in a duck in a hare in a chest buried on an island, for instance).

 

[Texas in August Studio]

No baelonorns, as they are not part of the open game material. Like the beholders and mindflayeers, they are solely the IP of WotC. However, I do discuss elves as liches.

There is a discussion of "good" liches, and thee creatures are rare and tragic.

I reference some folklore stories about people who removed their hearts (or spirit, or capacity for death) from themselves and hid these items.

I expressly discuss Koschei the Undying in the book.

Liches as PCs are possible, and something I explore in the book. They are some challenges to playing a lich. For one, liches tend to evil, and so what kind of campaign could you run a lich? Also, they tend to be powerful, so what is the power level of the campaign?

 

[Texas in August Studio]

A new template.

 

[Texas in August Studio]

 

[Tonguez]

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Neal the Nihilist, Soul devouring lich mwahahaha
(Love yor sense of humours)

 

[Texas in August Studio]

Thanks - there is ever so much more in the book.