Son of the Serpent
Pupil
The Boneyard
The first time I encountered it was not the first campaign id played in but it was memorable. The campaign happened in a post undead-apocalyptic enpire. Boneyards are incredibly resourceful/adaptable, fiendishly intelligent (average int of 18) feed in a way that just screams metal, and spawn personal armies of pretty powerful skeletons from their own body if they feel its strategically a good idea. Great tacticians. Multiple of them can also be used in conjunction with "aumvors fragmented phylactery" (an epic spell) by a sufficiently powerful lich to incredible effect too. And that is exactly what happened. So while we were trying not to get our own bones ripped out of our bodies we were trying to locate these boneyards and then extract and destroy the right bone in...i dont know for sure how many millions of bones. They can spawn crazy things like multiple young adult dragon skeletons from their main mass or huges mobs of skeletons smaller than that. Why stop at splitting your phylactery a couple hundred times when you can also turn several bundles of the pieces into pieces of powerful hyper intelligent undead that are practically a fortress unto themselves? In a giant city with a giant necropolis and several million undead roving around which the boneyard who is hyper intelligent will also use to regenerate you are in for a wild ride.
The first time I encountered it was not the first campaign id played in but it was memorable. The campaign happened in a post undead-apocalyptic enpire. Boneyards are incredibly resourceful/adaptable, fiendishly intelligent (average int of 18) feed in a way that just screams metal, and spawn personal armies of pretty powerful skeletons from their own body if they feel its strategically a good idea. Great tacticians. Multiple of them can also be used in conjunction with "aumvors fragmented phylactery" (an epic spell) by a sufficiently powerful lich to incredible effect too. And that is exactly what happened. So while we were trying not to get our own bones ripped out of our bodies we were trying to locate these boneyards and then extract and destroy the right bone in...i dont know for sure how many millions of bones. They can spawn crazy things like multiple young adult dragon skeletons from their main mass or huges mobs of skeletons smaller than that. Why stop at splitting your phylactery a couple hundred times when you can also turn several bundles of the pieces into pieces of powerful hyper intelligent undead that are practically a fortress unto themselves? In a giant city with a giant necropolis and several million undead roving around which the boneyard who is hyper intelligent will also use to regenerate you are in for a wild ride.