Open grave Excerpt: Demilich (and other lich lore)

[Korgoth]

The fluff in that article was pretty cool (the lore). Void liches sound fun. As to the demilich... my inclination would have been to make it a level 30 creature, since they're supposed to be the pinnacle of undead nastiness, but I suppose that's not a big deal either way.

 

[Spatula]

Am I the only person (mildly) irked that demiliches are only a level 20 solo? I always think of demiliches as the ultimate expression of undeath. Heck, take a look at the 3.x demilich template in the ELH--that is one nasty set of bonuses!

That surprised me, too. Not too hard to adjust, though.

 

[Kunimatyu]

A demilich as a hand? Fun!

You could have one masquerade as an artifact (souped up hand of the mage or a Hand of Vecna-lookalike, depending), then turn on the party once they led the hand to its goals.

You could also have a BBEG hand-demilich that uses its shadow rays to write orders to underlings on walls.

 

[Rechan]

A soul in the far realm would immediately go insane. Totally, irreversibly insane.

As if ghosts were really coherent and sane to begin with.

 

[questing gm]

The levels of the demilich surprised me too but for its attacks, that's one really mean level 20 artillery.

 

[Starsunder]

I too am suprised by the lvl of the Demilich, but as questing gm said, that's some pretty mean damage potential he's got.

I wonder what level Acerack (sp?) is.

Also figured it would be smarter, but whatever...

 

[arscott]

Given that Acererak has his own write-up later in the book, I expect that this is your garden-variety demilich, and you'll get a higher-level version for your tomb of horrors goodness.

 

[socratesgonemad]

I wonder what level Acerack (sp?) is.

Rumor has it, he's a level 26 Solo.

 

[yesnomu]

The levels of the demilich surprised me too but for its attacks, that's one really mean level 20 artillery.

Seriously. Handing out save penalties to everyone for failed saves? Talk about your negative feedback loops. Yikes.

 

[questing gm]

Has anyone noticed that save or die making a comeback in 4E?