Lich (Epic Destiny)
You seek to become an eternal being, using your mastery over rituals to accomplish this. For your search to the ritual to accomplish this, you will travel and adventure to gain the power necessary to do this.
An example of a Lich
Prerequisites: 21st level, Wisdom 21 or Intelligence 21, Ritual casting feat
As a lich, your goal in life is to unfold the necrotic powers that surround the world and releave your body from it’s mortality. To accomplish this, you use your mastery over rituals to bend the energies to your will. You could have several reasons to aim for this. You might be searching for knowledge, and feel a lifetime is not long enough. You might be searching for the answer to a question you consider to be vital, and know the research will take many, many, centuries. There are many other reasons why one could want to become a lich, and every reason is as valid as the other.
Immortality
Eventually, you will find and use the ritual you need, transforming you into an undying creature. You will retire into a distant home. In that home, you will continue the quest that made you decide to become a Lich. You will become known to many people, and they will seek you out for advice, ritual castings, and more. Depending on your area of expertise, people might come to you for other things as well.
Lich Features
Improved rituals (21st level): You have an increased understanding of the theories behind rituals, allowing you to cast rituals in half the usual time. When you’ve seen a ritual, you can spend eight hours and half the market price in ritual components to recreate that ritual.
Undying action (24th level): When you spend an action point to gain an additional action, you regain temporary hit points equal to your healing surge value + 1d10.
Lich’s research (26th level): You gain one 22nd level utility power from any class.
Undying power (30th level): When you have expended your last remaining encounter power, you regain the use of one encounter power of your choice. In this way, you never run out of encounter powers.
Tags: DnD4, Epic Destiny, Gaming, Homebrew, Lich
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Have you considered integrating some feature of the Lich template into the character? For example, they have one action that regains an encounter power and recharges on a 5-6.