minerfinn1
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Post by minerfinn1 on Dec 11, 2017 4:51:08 GMT
PREFACE - so if you have read my last post ( Joining a Lich Hunting Organization, but it goes deeper...) then you know that i have had my players join an organization called the Inevetables Material Plane Division (IMPD), and you know that that organization's goal is to destroy any being who attempts to artificially extend their life by unnatural means. that previous thread has given me an idea of where i will take that whole organization in the future, but now i would like to brainstorm something else. MORE ENCOUNTERS - so i want to try and come up with interesting quests that my players will be assigned to by the IMPD. so far they have killed a lich (not permanently) and his vampire friend (permanently), and stopped the march of their undead army to siege the town of mythrill. next up on my agenda i am going to have the players deal with a pirate lich who is commanding a pack of gnolls on a large steam powered ship. this pirate has been terrorizing, pillaging, and plundering several towns in the surrounding area, and he is going for myhtrill next, and the players will have to stop him. these encounters have been fun to plan out, but i want to continue this trend of hunting down liches and the like, so if you have any ideas for these sort of encounters i will definitely read through and consider any that are put into the comments below. i will also add to this post any ideas that i am able to think up. thank you very much for lending your ideas, i look foreward to seeing the responses :] 1. the IMPD finds a lead on the location of the lair of the previously destroyed lich, and the players must delve into a long abandoned catacomb to find the recently slain and even more recently reborn lich, and hopefully find his phylactory. the catacomb will be filled to the brim with traps, as this lich knows how importat his phylactory is, and will go to great lengths to protect it. 2. the IMPD hears tell of a rumor regarding an apprentice necromancer on the outskirts of a remote town and the players must hunt through the woods in order to find him and put an end to his acts, but the necromancer is somehow managing to combine the necrotic magical arts with that of druidic agic, resulting in horrid hybrid plant zombies, as well as a necrotic treent. 3. someone is pulling dead souls from the astral plane and sealing them into clay bodies to create unholy slaves. (see legion from castlevania)
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gsmitty44
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Killing off my characters' favorite NPC.
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Post by gsmitty44 on Dec 12, 2017 23:32:09 GMT
I think Dracolich's are badass, but I've never been able to write one into my campaigns. I think this is the perfect scenario! There is a platinum dragon who is known to guard a canyon/mountain/coastline against evil threats, but it hasn't been seen in months. Years even! But nor has anyone seen its body. Turns out a cult has captured it and performed a ritual transforming it into a dracolich against its will. As they players fight the beast it might even reach out to them begging for death, for freedom! So this time the lich the group is trying to kill isn't the "bad guy" but a victim, so it wouldn't be a repeat of their other missions.
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Post by meribson on Dec 12, 2017 23:58:47 GMT
I think Dracolich's are badass, but I've never been able to write one into my campaigns. I think this is the perfect scenario! There is a platinum dragon who is known to guard a canyon/mountain/coastline against evil threats, but it hasn't been seen in months. Years even! But nor has anyone seen its body. Turns out a cult has captured it and performed a ritual transforming it into a dracolich against its will. As they players fight the beast it might even reach out to them begging for death, for freedom! So this time the lich the group is trying to kill isn't the "bad guy" but a victim, so it wouldn't be a repeat of their other missions. Like the lava monster from the Samurai Jack episode, I heartily approve! |
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minerfinn1
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Post by minerfinn1 on Dec 13, 2017 4:34:06 GMT
I think Dracolich's are badass, but I've never been able to write one into my campaigns. I think this is the perfect scenario! There is a platinum dragon who is known to guard a canyon/mountain/coastline against evil threats, but it hasn't been seen in months. Years even! But nor has anyone seen its body. Turns out a cult has captured it and performed a ritual transforming it into a dracolich against its will. As they players fight the beast it might even reach out to them begging for death, for freedom! So this time the lich the group is trying to kill isn't the "bad guy" but a victim, so it wouldn't be a repeat of their other missions. that sounds really cool!! maybe ill see if i cant get my hands on a dracolich mini ;] Thanks for your idea! much appreciated!! |
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Post by lasersniper on Dec 13, 2017 18:52:20 GMT
I like the idea of the moral quandary. The IMPD just seeks out those extending life right? They don't have to be doing anything bad? What about a reclusive lich who just wants to see the world as it moves through time? I imagine they were an imprisoned innocent when a wizard was attempting to make himself a lich. Something went wrong in the process, the prisoner ended up being turned into the lich, and the wizard dies. You now have a random innocent as a lich who can't really rejoin society and maybe they just enjoy watching the world turn. While being functionally immortal now, the person probably won't want to lay down and die when confronted by the party. But they are a random joe. They wouldn't really have any fighting skills or magic. So what would this person do? BOOK IT!!! Using their years of experience & knowledge of the area they have decided to hermit in, they could lead the party on a merry chase.
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minerfinn1
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Post by minerfinn1 on Dec 13, 2017 19:13:55 GMT
I like the idea of the moral quandary. The IMPD just seeks out those extending life right? They don't have to be doing anything bad? What about a reclusive lich who just wants to see the world as it moves through time? I imagine they were an imprisoned innocent when a wizard was attempting to make himself a lich. Something went wrong in the process, the prisoner ended up being turned into the lich, and the wizard dies. You now have a random innocent as a lich who can't really rejoin society and maybe they just enjoy watching the world turn. While being functionally immortal now, the person probably won't want to lay down and die when confronted by the party. But they are a random joe. They wouldn't really have any fighting skills or magic. So what would this person do? BOOK IT!!! Using their years of experience & knowledge of the area they have decided to hermit in, they could lead the party on a merry chase. Great idea! i will always be interested in presenting the party with situations that could possibly be solved in a more satisfying way. Maybe ill make this one of the later missions assigned to the players, so they will be developing distrust for the organization, so maybe they will ally with the innocent lich, and he can be an ally in taking down the IMPD! Thanks for the idea! ill definitely utilize this! |
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gsmitty44
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Killing off my characters' favorite NPC.
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Post by gsmitty44 on Dec 13, 2017 23:41:13 GMT
I like the idea of the moral quandary. The IMPD just seeks out those extending life right? They don't have to be doing anything bad? What about a reclusive lich who just wants to see the world as it moves through time? I imagine they were an imprisoned innocent when a wizard was attempting to make himself a lich. Something went wrong in the process, the prisoner ended up being turned into the lich, and the wizard dies. You now have a random innocent as a lich who can't really rejoin society and maybe they just enjoy watching the world turn. While being functionally immortal now, the person probably won't want to lay down and die when confronted by the party. But they are a random joe. They wouldn't really have any fighting skills or magic. So what would this person do? BOOK IT!!! Using their years of experience & knowledge of the area they have decided to hermit in, they could lead the party on a merry chase. I love this. The party would have to decide for themselves whether they're going to strictly adhere to the tenants of the IMPD or follow a new path. Or maybe the IMPD has never come across a gray area like this and the party has to set the precedence for the future! Great idea! |
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Post by randosaurus on Jan 12, 2018 7:06:45 GMT
This might be off the wall: A caster modifies the ritual to become a lich. He intends to achieve lichdom not by undeath, but through agelessness. Essentially, the phylactery maintains not only his life but his current state of health & vigor. The ritual appears to be a success. However, there is a catch (always a catch). Once night falls, the phylactery prevents again as designed. The caster awakes exactly as he did the day before. Everything awakes exactly as it did the day before. It's... GROUND-HOG DAY [Send] I wrote that, and then I realized I just described an old Neverwinter Nights scenario, 'The Trusting Baelnorn'. It's pretty good, if you're not familiar: Elf wizard wants to become noble baelnorn, a 'willing undead' elf, committing themselves to eternal protection of their family. It's a lich, but good, and elfish. In the scenario, the wizard has good intentions but his ritual goes wrong because of demonic interference. The botched ritual creates an area (the manor town around the wizard's compound) that is stuck in a twilight of days repeated, each citizen awaking restored to physical health but incremental psychic toll. The scenario itself is technically a mystery, and actually a good example of branched adventure scripts NWN was capable of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c4PYkW88G4Anyway, steal from the pros I say. |
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