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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5340997" data-attributes="member: 1129">A lot of it depends on the base assumptions of magic.For instance, at 7th level to be attacking a lord, the campaign sounds fairly low magic.When the party goes to kill him, they discover his corpse. It's freshly dressed and looks like it's ready to get up and move around. Those who are clerics or trained in religion, have an odd sense of something and one of the players discovers that the body is actually a phlacter of a lich.The lich senses his puppet ruler's distress and arrives to put the players in their place. No one must know that the ruler is not alive, much less the puppet of a lich.Or the ruler is slowly on his way to subjecating the local region not for his own use, but rather, as a sacrifice for his demonic masters and when the players come for him, he sacrifices his wife and children as a last ditch effort to summon demonic aid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 5340997, member: 1129"] A lot of it depends on the base assumptions of magic. For instance, at 7th level to be attacking a lord, the campaign sounds fairly low magic. When the party goes to kill him, they discover his corpse. It's freshly dressed and looks like it's ready to get up and move around. Those who are clerics or trained in religion, have an odd sense of something and one of the players discovers that the body is actually a phlacter of a lich. The lich senses his puppet ruler's distress and arrives to put the players in their place. No one must know that the ruler is not alive, much less the puppet of a lich. Or the ruler is slowly on his way to subjecating the local region not for his own use, but rather, as a sacrifice for his demonic masters and when the players come for him, he sacrifices his wife and children as a last ditch effort to summon demonic aid. [/QUOTE]

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