Where would you put it?

[Mycanid]

Make the phylactery a clear, solid sphere of some sort. Sail out to the middle of the ocean. Summon the most powerful elemental you can bind to a task (If you can somehow hook a water elemental monolith into this, bonus points!) and have it take the sphere to the bottom of the ocean, and protect it forever.

Before doing this, use divination spells to make sure said ocean floor is not home to Eldrich horrors from the great beyond. While you might be able to cut a deal with such monstrosities, they almost invariably garner too much attention from some wandering heroic party or other, and get your precious phylactery smooshed.

This sounds like a good idea to me....

 

[Sejs]

Set it into the foundation stones of some big, popular monument. Like a famous bridge, or the cornerstone of a big cathedral of a good religeon. One of those last-places-they'll-ever-look sorta deals.

Coat it in lead to help foil detection.

 

[bestone]

Adamantite block, and chuck it into the mouth of a Tarraque.

---Rusty

Oh man, for some reason when i first read that, i read something about chuck norris.....

 

[isoChron]

As donremus asked already: Does it detect as magic under detect magic, or is it evil ? Simple spells can make the hide in plain sight-trick worthless.
Our group does always use detect magic/arcane sight and analyse dweomer. So if it's magic (I think it is because you need craft wondreous items for it) then most tactics will fail due to detect spells.

The other point is, if the lich "resurrects", will it be where his phylactery is (imprisoned, in a lava stream, where ever) or will he appear at the nearest 'save' spot ?

 

[hong]

Ooh, phylactery as respawn point. Camp time!

 

[bestone]

How bout into a grain of sand, then toss it into the infinite river of earth on the elemental plane of earth, maybey enchant a couble huge bags of sand with something trivial, and toss them all over too, so when trying to detect magic to find the particular one you'll have billions to choose from

 

[Jesus_marley]

Thanks to those who reminded me where the, slightly disturbing, quote came from. Although I do remember GM'ing a game where the PC's killed some barbarians, one of which had a gem stored in a very uncomfortable location.

Where did a Barbarian get the backseat of a Volkswagon???

Seriously, I would make my phylactery a brick in the floor covered with normal tiles in a standard pattern. I would have committed its location to memory so that there would be no record of where in the floor it is located.

 

[zeb.hillard]

One of the other players in a game I was in was planning on placing his phylactery in a chandelier of finely cut gems...all with Continual Flame cast on them, and Nygul's Aura/Permenancy on it, to lower the percieved magical power of it so that it would blend in.

Oh, you think to crush all thousand of the gems in the hopes that one of them is a phylactory? Heh...good luck...some of those are enchancted with just a bit more than just Continual Flame...

 

[DreadArchon]

Enchant a black hole. What are they going to do, go in and get it?

 

[newgrace]

Adamantine brick, covered in lead, painted white, used in the basement of a temple of pelor.
or as my friend says, "Put it in a large coffin along with a pillow a sunrod and one of your favorite books, bury it in a large graveyard and then, if you die, you reappear inside your coffin and can relax while you read your book. Just don't forget to make that last page Ethereal Jaunt so you can get out"