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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9688691" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417926/3rd-Era-PDF-MegaBundle?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Unholy Warrior's Handbook</a>3.0Undead: ?Undead Servant: ?Mindless Undead Ally: ?Lich: Mourne's Peripeteia artifact.Skeleton, Mindless Undead Ally: ?Skeleton, Easy Prey: ?Medium-Sized Skeleton, Undead Companion: ?Zombie, Mindless Undead Ally, Easy Prey: ?Mourne’s Peripeteia This unique twisted rod of an unknown material bears 13 runes in 13 languages. Its first known user was a legendary dark elf who championed the cause of balance. In a distant land in an ancient era, he discovered this staff and recognized its raw chaotic energies and potential to aid his comrades if one or more of them fell in battle. Although he had noble reasons for taking up the artifact, he soon became corrupted by its influence. Every time he used the rod to restore life to a dead ally, it reincarnated her and transferred one of the runes onto his flesh. As more runes roosted on his body, he became more chaotic and corrupted, until one day his body, long gone to rot, spilled his intestines onto the ground, making an ideal target for a band of bloodthirsty kobolds in service of an ancient red wyrm. The rod’s primary ability is to reincarnate the dead. When touching a dead character, the rod flares with energy, and the deceased is reincarnated as per the spell in the PHB. Dead characters have no choice, nor may they resist the powers of this artifact. The rod never restores the individual to his own race, and any roll resulting in such implies a result of GMs choice. When the rod reincarnates a character, it transfers a rune onto the body of the caster. The process of gaining a rune is excruciatingly painful and inflicts 1 point of Constitution damage. In addition, each rune has a side effect, many of them none too pleasant. See the table on the next page for details. Each use of the rod instills a perverse desire to use it more. Once the rod inscribes all 13 runes, it ceases to function and the wielder has a flash of sudden insight. At this point the character must succeed at a Will save against a DC 32 or go incurably insane as per the spell. As noted above, he has transformed into a lich. While this confers immortality, if his corporeal body is destroyed, the rod consumes his spirit and regains all 13 runes. The rod is intelligent (Int 24, Wis 18, Cha 24, Ego 30); it is capable of speech and telepathy, reads all languages and magic, and confers the following abilities onto its wielder in addition to the ones described above: Intuit Direction +14, Sense Motive +14, and free use of Evasion. The rod may assume the form of a 30 HD fiendish Black Pudding, may charm person (DC 18) on contact, and may use telekinesis at will (250 lb maximum) independent of the user, if it is so inclined. This item is a unique artifact crafted by a personification of raw Chaos. Mourne’s Peripeteia’s Rune Effects Runes Effect 1 -2 Strength and Constitution drain 2 Alignment shift one step towards chaotic 3 Alignment shift one step towards evil 4 -2 Wisdom drain 5 +2 enhancement bonus to Intelligence 6 +2 enhancement bonus to Strength 7 Alignment shift one step towards chaotic 8 Alignment shift one step towards evil 9 -2 Strength and Constitution drain 10 Grow old: one age category higher 11 See in Darkness (no penalty) 12 Damage Reduction 5/- 13 Lich transformation (phylactery is the rod; if the lich body is destroyed, the phylactery devours the soul and all 13 runes are restored). See MM for details on the Lich template.</blockquote>

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