VRMH |
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As far as I know, a Phylactery has to be a tiny box, with strips of parchment inside. So why not let it be just that? Tiny boxes aren't exactly noteworthy.
I'd weigh it down, and throw it into a well. Liches can reform under water just fine. She can just wait there for a bit, out of sight while regaining spells.
Azilrro |
As far as I know, a Phylactery has to be a tiny box, with strips of parchment inside. So why not let it be just that? Tiny boxes aren't exactly noteworthy.
I'd weigh it down, and throw it into a well. Liches can reform under water just fine. She can just wait there for a bit, out of sight while regaining spells.
i really like the underwater idea
SanKeshun |
My favorite example was a lich who followed this thought process: "Most liches hide their phylacteries a long ways away. Anyone hunting me will know that. So I should hide mine nearby." He then proceeded to make a phylactery, ward it as many ways as he could, and become a lich. Once he was a lich, he cut out his heart, warded it so it seemed like a phylactery, hid it somewhere really remote, and put his phylactery in his chest. Took the party a long time to figure that one out, especially since they didn't think to sift through the ashes after cremating him. Twice.
As a cleric of Urgathoa, a skull might also be appropriate. Hide it among the other decorations in her lair. Or stick it on one of the low-level skeletal guards. The PCs won't waste a disintegrate spell on a mere skeleton, so there's a low chance it will be destroyed.
Claxon |
Hidden in Plain Sight is a great trope to use with phylacteries.
Another great one to do is inside his personal permanent demi-plane. Remember that plane shift requires a tuning fork attuned to the plane to which you wish to travel. The PCs would need to find the lich's tuning fork to reach the demi-plane. Which can be hidden amongst many tuning forks to many planes.
Mykull |
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I don't know where I read this idea:
Lich slays and soul gems the Tarrasque (tm).
Lich makes that gem her phylactery.
Lich does not hide her phylactery . . . like, at all. This presents quite a dilemma to the party: Utterly slay the lich and unleash the Tarrasque upon the world.
The lich informs the party that there's a contingency upon the gem: If she's slain, the gem will be teleported to a random location within one minute (this eliminates the party deciding to rest up before tackling the Tarrasque).
Tiny Coffee Golem |
We're I a paranoid Lich my phyla try would be an intelligent item. This opens up all kinds of shenanigans.
Stick it in a golem and have it drive the thing through whatever means.
Maybe the phalactry cloaks it's aura and pretends to be some awesome loot. Maybe it is some awesome loot. Imagine a badass paladin sword whose name I can't remember we're actually the phalactry.