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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7105532" data-attributes="member: 6796661">So the Phylactery allows the Lich to be reformed, but how this occurs isn't clear. I would have the Lich take the body of some corpse and then slowly gain strength over time, tracking/hunting the party and looking for opportunities to get its phylactery back. It probably won't reveal itself to the party or attack them itself. Especially in weakened condition. But it should have minions/followers who will attempt to get. I would have a number of encounters that are easily dismissed as typical random encounters, but over time, the party suspects someone organizing against them, but they don't know why. <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">First, there would be minions that track down the party and try brute force. Kill the party and take it. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">That doesn't work (unless your want a chance of a TPK on what to the players will feel like a random encounter), so then there is another attack, but this time it is a distraction for higher-powered stealthy types to attempt to find and escape with the phylactery. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If that works, the party has a quest to try to track the bad guys back down, perhaps back to a secret hideout where the lich may or may not be. If the party doesn't take up the chase, then over time, they start hearing rumor of bad things occurring until they realize that the lich is back.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If the smash and grab doesn't work, however, than maybe a new tact is taken. Some NPC ingratiates himself with the party. It should seem like just some vanilla NPC that the DM throws into a quest for a session or a few sessions. The NPC will attempt to determine who has the phylactery, how it is stored, and will attempt to steal and sneak off with it. Go back to #3 </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If none of the above work, have the party be tracked. If they attempt to sell it, the minions arrange for someone to buy it or take it from the merchant the party sells it to. </li> </ol>A heavier handed approach: one of the party members starts to come under the control of the lich. The lich shares the players body, eventually destroying the players soul and resuming its lich form using the players soul and body to do so. You have to know your players to know if this is something your player would enjoy and if they can pull off role-playing the divided personality.  If the lich succeeds in destroying the player then it become a DM-run NPC again. Hope this gives you some ideas to play with. Let us know what you end up doing and how it goes!</blockquote>

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