Vlad Strakov's page

I like liches just fine. My favorite NPC is one. But why go through all the trouble of finding a new group to pick up where the old one left off, if they don't know what's going on? Why not just start a new campaign, but in the same campaign world? Just set it twenty years after all of the old stuff happened.
Just a lich's ramblings.
Vlad.

In an attempt to keep the thread on track, my favorite boss was Mephisto the half-fiend elven wizard. He had a butt load of minions called Mastars, which were made by shoving a magic key into any humanoid's back. The group eventually killed him with the magic weapons from White Plume Mountain, and went off to hunt down his drow apprentice.
Of course, I couldn't let my major bad guy go down just yet, so his general, Malacca the black mastar ranger, got together Mephisto's bits and pieces and returned Mephisto to "life" as a lich. Since one of my players has played through the adventure I'm running now, The Tomb of Horrors, I figured I'd better add a twist. Mephisto the lich and his drow apprentice sent a group of their own to make an ally of the demilich.
Have fun.

I have a few different groups, so I will list their races and classes seperately. Mostly because their tastes are so wildly different.

Group #1: elf fighter/wizard, elf rogue half-orc fighter gnome cleric/illusionist.
Group #2: human fighter, elf thief, elf monk, half-elf cleric, elf wizard, half-fiend ranger
Group #3: Human paladin, human ranger, human bard, elf druid, elf barbarian, warforged scout ranger/rogue.

I don't know what to make of these guys. I'll tell you how many guys from each group are left after the Tomb of Horrors adventure (heh heh heh).

It doesn't really matter whether they plan or not in my opinion. Any party has a relatively small chance of survival in the grand scheme of things, especially when you throw in a curveball like The Tomb of Horrors adventure. Even the two level 20 characters in the party are having an awful time surviving. One just crawled into a sphere of annialation.
Just my input

Here's one that happened last Saturday, so I thought it would be good to post it. The thief, the only girl player and character in our group had just leveled up, and decided to take a level of wizard, even though we had a wizard in our group. Cut to game table right after she announces this.
Wizard: What the hell are you doing that for?! Stick with thief for Sheba's sake!
Thief: But if we encounter a monster with a high AC, I can just magic missile it. Or if there's lots of monsters, I can cast sleep.
Wizard: I can do all those things, and more!
Thief: But that would mean you were the only one who could really do anything against Cthulhu.
Wizard: Cthulhu is in an entirely different game! He isn't going to drop down on us form out of the sky!
Thief: But we just got through fighting dimensional shamblers! And there was even a Shoggoth!
DM: Okay, once you level up, you will be attacked by three orcs and a Mi-Go.
Thief: I told you!

In my campain, I have a half-illithid drow vampire. It makes for some interesting role-playing. An example:
DM: As you are traveling down the ancient tunnel, you see a humanoid with four tentacles sprouting from where its mouth should be.
Fighter: Hey look, a mind flayer.
Wizard: Are you sure? It could be Ishtel.
Fighter: Who?
Cleric: Remember? That vampire thing with tentacles.
Fighter: Oh yeah. Good thing you turned it. Anyway, that guy wouldn't be wandering around a tunnel.
Thief: What if it's Cthulhu?! We're all gonna die!!!!
Ishtel: (mind blasts, fireballs, eats fighter's brain)

Some memorable one-liners of my campain usually involve at least one PC dying---and it's not my fault.

Wizard: I cast Bull Strength on the kobold.
Fighter: What the hell for?!
Wizard: I'm board.
Fighter: I attack the wizard for his treachery!
(fight breaks out, fighter dies)
Kobold: Thank you for saving me elf.
Wizard: Yeah yeah. I crap in the fighter's mouth.

In my campaign, elves are an almost extinct race. This is so because of the Inquisition that Tonko, God of Blood and Hatred, decreed. What few elves that are left are constantly hunted, never welcome, and never safe. The ruler of my campain world is Vlad Strakov, a powerful vampire wizard. The only way to put an end to the elven bloodshed is to kill Vlad, for he is the one that asked Tonko to decree the Inquisition in the first place.

DAMN! Can,t believe their risking it again they should take a que from Peter Jackson and those who did Record of Lodoss War.

I hate to see a good product look like crap just to make a few bucks.

I thought Record of Lodoss War was a good show, but maybe this vampire's old heart's just getting soft.

I don't think an item would be considered evil unless the user was evil. A dagger used to kill children would be evil while used for that purpose, but if used for cutting rope afterward, it wouldn't nessesaraly be evil anymore. Then again, that's just the thoughts of an old vampire.