• FaceDeer@kbin.social
    21·
    3 years ago

    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).

    • chetradley@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      3 years ago

      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!

      • Flushmaster@ttrpg.network
        4·
        3 years ago

        I also endorse Pointy Hat and his content. It’s on YouTube, and he’s also recently been streaming multihour world building sessions on Twitch (I think on Saturdays). Lots of good stuff, presented in an entertaining way.

    • Archpawn@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        3·
        3 years ago

        The petrification trick works on any lich to counter its phylactery. Unless the lich has prepared some way to counter it, which they might have because liches are highly intelligent generally speaking and don’t just sit in a room waiting for adventurers to come and whack them.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      2·
      3 years ago

      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.

    • jmdatcs@lemmy.tfEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      Damn you for reminding me about him. I’m going to be mad for like an hour now.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      13·
      3 years ago

      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.

        • chetradley@lemmy.worldOP
          5·
          3 years ago

          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…

          • SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee
            3·
            3 years ago

            He should look into starting a religion, you can get a solid few thousand years of people talking about you if it does well.

            • chetradley@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              3 years ago

              That would work great if there weren’t actual gods in this universe. I think he’d get found out pretty quick lol.

  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
    3·
    3 years ago

    I feel this too hard. I feel so bad for my partner right now who has to hear my constant babbling about my newest homebrew setting lol.