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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5319917" data-attributes="member: 99">Come to think of it, the BBEG in my last major campaign (4e) was pretty darned good.&nbsp; He could best be summarized by a frequent quote from Piratecat's players:&nbsp; &quot;Everything is terrible and it's all our fault.&quot;In one of their earlier adventures the PC's had to fight a bunch of undead in the entry to an abandoned dwarven fortress.&nbsp; I wanted some kind of magical necromantic mcguffin in there that they needed to disable to stop the undead from rising up again.&nbsp; So I ended up having there be a big dragon skeleton with this magical &quot;seal&quot; (around the size of a dinner plate) set in its skull.&nbsp; It had an old dwarven axe lodged in it and was kicking out this baleful greenish light.&nbsp; The PC's successfully fought their way in and removed it from the skull and that was the end of the session.Afterward I thought to myself, &quot;What the hell IS that thing anyway?&quot;&nbsp; That's when I decided that it was the phylactery of a Dracolich that had been rendered inert by the undead slaying dwarven axe (which the PC's had removed in order to be able to transport the thing).Later the PC's found themselves tangling with an old Blue Dragon who was sending waves of abominable servants against the Lizard Folk.&nbsp; The PC's were somewhat in over their heads but in the midst of the combat a voice whispered the Truename of the Blue Dragon into their minds, which allowed them to defeat it.&nbsp; No sooner had that happened than the phylactery rolled of its own volition over to the dragon corpse and affixed itself to the dragon's skull.&nbsp; Voila!&nbsp; Brand new Dracolich!They spent the rest of the campaign trying to undo the destruction and havoc that the Dracolich was wreaking.&nbsp; Good times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 5319917, member: 99"] Come to think of it, the BBEG in my last major campaign (4e) was pretty darned good. He could best be summarized by a frequent quote from Piratecat's players: "Everything is terrible and it's all our fault." In one of their earlier adventures the PC's had to fight a bunch of undead in the entry to an abandoned dwarven fortress. I wanted some kind of magical necromantic mcguffin in there that they needed to disable to stop the undead from rising up again. So I ended up having there be a big dragon skeleton with this magical "seal" (around the size of a dinner plate) set in its skull. It had an old dwarven axe lodged in it and was kicking out this baleful greenish light. The PC's successfully fought their way in and removed it from the skull and that was the end of the session. Afterward I thought to myself, "What the hell IS that thing anyway?" That's when I decided that it was the phylactery of a Dracolich that had been rendered inert by the undead slaying dwarven axe (which the PC's had removed in order to be able to transport the thing). Later the PC's found themselves tangling with an old Blue Dragon who was sending waves of abominable servants against the Lizard Folk. The PC's were somewhat in over their heads but in the midst of the combat a voice whispered the Truename of the Blue Dragon into their minds, which allowed them to defeat it. No sooner had that happened than the phylactery rolled of its own volition over to the dragon corpse and affixed itself to the dragon's skull. Voila! Brand new Dracolich! They spent the rest of the campaign trying to undo the destruction and havoc that the Dracolich was wreaking. Good times. [/QUOTE]

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