Much stuff
@LMK
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@RB Story
Well this has to go way back. You oldies remember the
Staff of Racanath? Well, I had a character named Racanath Xiltyn. he was a CE grey elf and the entire purpose for his life was to commit genocide on Drow. Well, teh guy was very cunning, though about as evil as evil gets. There is quite a bit of adventuring and he convinces the good-aligned party that he is also good aligned. (good thing I had high skill in Bluff!) Even when he became a lich, a nat 20 against a nat 1 (my bluff vs their sense motive) even let me pass as a good lich (which there are in Faerun)
Anyway, we have a very clever DM, but not clever enough. He put us in a room filled with
Mirrors of Opposition. My character, not wanting to have is opposite aligned duplicate starting handing out gold and serving the weak and such, steered clear of them. Though a freak accident due to the way the room was set up, there ended up being at least 50 copies of each alignment for everyone except Racanath, who had none. Well, in the dea of night, Racanath woke up one evil copy of each of the other PCs and they proceeded to assasinate the other players by slitting their throats while they slept. Including the other evil ones.
Over the course of time, my lich became a demilich, forged the
Staff of Racanath which, in summary, allowed Racanath to
Animate Dead at will and that any undead he raised with the staff did not count against his limit of controllable HD. (Yes my own character created a major artifact) He raised an army of undead and set out to conquer faerun so he coudl have an undead army to ravage the Underdark to destroy all the drow. He ended up destroying everything from Baldur's gate to the Entire nation of amn. (both of those nations and now an udnead wasteland) He eventually was smitten by Mystra (violating a divine law against direct intervention) since no one else could kill him, and failed to accomplish his goal.
Well, I became DM after that. in my campaign, Ao decided that Mystra's actions woudl be partially reversed (not fully since Racanath HAD been hunting down her Chosen...since most are wizards and he is immune ot magic...) Racnath was resurected as a grey elf again, but he woudl have to become a lich once again on his own. He did. And got his staff back. And got an army. And started conquering. So I had my PC's go after him. After acheiving to sub-epic level from first level, and acheiving magic items intentionally created to destroy demiliches, they went after him. I was nice enough to give them a break and let them kill him basically (even though he woudl have blown them to smitherines if I had played him like someone with an IQ above 42.) However, since I went easy on them, i pulled the RB trick. Since Racanath was an epic level Wizard/Shadow Adept/Archamge Demilich. he had god-liek poweress. In order to destroy his phylacerty they had to sacrifice theri souls. They were unressurectable though they passed on to a wonderful after life. So basically their characters either died fighting Racanath and his evil continued, or they died finishing him off. Actually his spirit just possesed the
Staff of Racanath but now it will be nearly impossible to ressurect him, but he makes the Staff alot more powerful. so there's my RB story. Not the best, but it's the only one I can think of.
@Deck of Many Things
Oh...so many stories...definately the best minor artifact, or even posssibly magic item in the whole game.....
