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« on: June 16, 2016, 08:16:49 am »
So here's my next idea for my campaign: Party's just about done cleaning up some void zombies and should finish off their creators soon too.
What next? Well, zombies gotta come from somewhere right? So they'll obviously find the camp where the ex-living were, y'know, living. Inside the camp, which I'm sure they'll thoroughly loot for anything that's not nailed down, they'll find a sack that moves slightly.
What's inside the sack? A severed head!
Severed head proceeds to beg party not to kill him, promises them big reward for helping him. Explains that he's a lich that was destroyed some time ago, but regrowing his body didn't all go quite according to plan. His various body parts seem to have all spawned in separate locations, and he needs help putting himself back together.
Party can either kill him outright, which I've got a nice CR 3 monster skulleton stat block lined up for, or help him. Should they look about ready to destroy him, he'll bring to their attention that he'll only respawn in a few days, and sooner or later he'll be sure to pay them back for their betrayal. Should they help him, I've got stats for two crawling hands, a skinwraith, a meat puppet and a skeleton, along with a humanoid ectoplasm to glue it all together.
Of course, once they've defeated the separate parts he'll reveal he needs to finish the process with a sacrifice, namely either a virgin's blood, the soul of a good aligned cleric or the horn of a unicorn.
I figure they'll probably just kill the lich while he's a head, but it'll be a great intro for a recurring villain and also an awesome opportunity to spawn some truly awful puns.
"The bandits kept me around for entertainment! We'd play games together, like tether-ball or bowling. I was really good at the first one!"
