That guy is thinking about an Intoner, the bardic equivalent of a lich.
Anyone wanting a ton of fun ideas for variant liches should check out Pointy Hat’s channel, he’s doing a whole series on custom lich types for different kinds of spellcaster (and he also just did a Barbarian Lich type, the Scourge, so he’s branching out to non-spellcasters too).
Great call. I very heavily based him on the Intoner, with some adjustments for him being an orator/teller of tall tales instead of a musician. And yes, if you’re not watching Pointy Hat get on that ASAP!
Huh, I saw VaranSL from dumpstat posted something similar a year or so ago. Did variant liches for all the classes. I liked it enough it based my current adventure on it.
Is that video the only lich one Pointy Hat has done? Or are his villain videos about liches in part?
Edit: oh yeah that’s it. Villain videos are in the Which Lich playlist.
So you basically have to unperson him to kill him? Let’s just petrify him and chuck him in a demiplane and call it good enough.
So like, the spooky version of clapping Tinkerbell back to life?
clapping Tinkerbell
goddammit.
Hello Patrick Rothfuss
Damn you for reminding me about him. I’m going to be mad for like an hour now.
As someone interested in tabletops but no actual experience in them… What?
Sometimes DMs put a lot of thought into their homebrew setting and like anything else it can be more interesting than what ever is going on, like trying to remember Jacob’s name.
Jared*
Jarnathan?
Jingleheimer-Smith
I mostly meant “what?” about the Lich!
So… I had the idea that the villain of my game would be a sort of “folk hero” who wrote (and often greatly exaggerated) records of his adventures. Being a bard, he found a way to achieve eternal life through his stories; as long as people kept reading about his adventures, he would maintain his undeath. Worked great until he realized he would need to create new stories to keep people interested. No problem, he could just create a demiplane where adventurers would come in search of treasure, and transport them into perilous and outlandish situations. Now he has new material for his stories! Hopefully they don’t catch on to the fact that these stories are made up… because then he’d have to make sure they could never leave…
Pre-Voldemort Voldemort.
