Re: Undead Armies

Jon and Jody wrote:
> But DEFINITELY egotistical.  I don't know anything about 3E, but in 2nd
> edition, a liche was minimum 19th mage and/or 20th priest.  Add a will
> strong enough to defy mortality, and the ego is kinda mandatory.
Actually a lich is at minimum an 18th level mage. Except for a few rare
special cases (such as Baneliches in Forgotton Realms) priests don't
become liches. As far as the ego goes it's not absolutely mandatory, but
it certainly is more likely than not. As an example of a lich without a
particularly huge ego there's that fellow from Skull and Crossbows who
didn't even realize that he had died, let alone that he had become a
lich: he was far too forgetful and absorbed in his research to think of
such trivial things.
> Definitely!  I'm kind of curious as to why the liche would bother with
> invading anyone on a large scale, though.
I would tend to think that if a lich was behind an invasion, the
invasion itself would likely only be a small part of its plan. Perhaps
the entire invasion is designed to allow the lich to get a single
well-guarded book that he needs for his research, or perhaps the
invasion is just to distract people from his true goal.
> BTW: Since I joined the list, I'm finding it so much more fun to create
> new ways to mess with the minds of the characters in my own campaign...
If you can't mess with their minds, what's the point? ;-)

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The most merciful thing in all the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island
of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not
meant that we should voyage far.