Onde posso encontrar as regras para se tornar um lich em AD & D 2e?

Embora existam várias fontes, como o Compêndio Monstruoso e o Compêndio de Feitiços do Assistente, conforme descrito em Guia de Van Richten para o Lich , um livro de referência com cerca de 100 páginas dedicadas inteiramente ao lich. Ele descreve duas maneiras de se tornar um lich, um mágico (para magos e clérigos), o outro através de psionismo.

Para se tornar um lich através de meios mágicos, primeiro é necessário preparar um talismã muito caro (1.500 po por nível do feiticeiro) de habilidade requintada . A filactéria geralmente é uma caixa, mas também pode ser algum outro item com algum espaço interior:

... the phylactery ... can be fashioned into virtually any item, provided that it has an interior space in which the lich can carve certain small magical designs. Silver is poured into these designs, and a permanency spell is cast on the whole. The designs include arcane symbols of power and the wizard's personal sigil. ... The wizard's personal sigil is a mystical sign of personal significance, and identifying it may convey great power over a lich.

Once ... crafted and properly enchanted, four spells must be cast upon the phylactery: enchant an item, magic jar, permanency, and reincarnation. ... The manner in which the spells are cast and the time at which they are cast are not important, except that the permanency spell must be cast last of all. The rules ... are not immutable. ... The Dungeon Master is encouraged to customize not only the phylactery, but the process of creating it, too.

O próximo passo é a preparação de uma poção altamente venenosa de transformação , que precisa ser consumida em uma noite com lua cheia:

... the mage may blend several forms of natural poisons, including arsenic, belladonna, nightshade, heart's worry, and the blood of any of a number of poisonous monsters. Also necessary are a heart, preferably from a sentient creature, and the venom from a number of rare creatures such as wyverns, giant scorpions, and exotic snakes.

... If any error is made in the formula or in the concoction and distillation of the potion, irrevocable death results.

When the ingredients are properly mixed, the following spells must be cast upon the potion: wraithform, cone of cold, feign death, animate dead, and permanency. The potion must be drunk during a night with a full moon. Upon ingestion, a System Shock roll is required. If the mage passes the test, then he has been transformed by the potion into a dreaded lich.

If the mage doesn't survive the shock, he is dead forever, with no hope of any sort of resurrection. Not even a wish will undo the lethal potion. Only the direct intervention of a deity (or the Dungeon Master) has any hope of resurrecting a mage killed in this manner.

Vale a pena notar que, embora raro, o livro também descreve o lich sacerdotal:

The cleric lich is created through the same process as is the wizard lich, except that the spells it casts are obviously clerical in nature.

Para se tornar um lich psiônico, o psionista deve ser de pelo menos 18º nível e deve ser treinado em vários poderes psiônicos. Novamente um talismã é preparado e o pretenso lich transfere seus poderes para ele :

... A phylactery can come in any shape, from a ring to a crown, from a sword to an idol. The item is made from the finest materials and must be fashioned by master craftsmen. ... The cost of creating a phylactery is 5,000 gp per level of the psionicist. ...

... the psionicist must empower [the phylactery] with each and every psionic ability that he or she possesses. Although an object cannot normally be empowered with psychic abilities in more than one discipline, the unusual nature of the phylactery allows this rule to be broken. However, before "opening" a new discipline within the object, the would-be lich must transfer all powers from the first discipline into it. ... Once a discipline is "closed," it cannot ever be reopened.

... Each time that he or she gives the phylactery a new power, the psionicist loses it forever. ... Obviously, the last power that is transferred into the phylactery is the empower ability. The effort of placing this ability within the phylactery drains the last essences of the psionicist's life and completes the transformation into a psionic lich. At the moment that the transformation takes place, the psionicist must make System Shock survival roll. Failure indicates that ... the psionicist's spirit breaks up and dissipates, making him or her forever dead. Only the powers of a deity are strong enough to revive a psionicist who has died in this way; even a wish will not suffice.

Alternativas: Archlich & Baelnorn

Se o candidato lich é bom ou neutro-alinhado e não quer se tornar um morto-vivo do mal, a alternativa é se tornar um archlich, cujo procedimento é descrito em a resposta do ucbpaladin . Ainda outra alternativa no cenário Forgotten Realms é o baelnorn lich . Estes são geralmente mortos-vivos LG ou LN elf com características lich-like. De acordo com Cormanthyr: Empire of the Elves , o procedimento para se tornar um baelnorn é através de o alto ritual mágico élfico conhecido como "Fhaor 'Akh' Tel'Quess - Homenagem do Dever para com o Povo". Para alguns detalhes, você pode ver o livro em si, que costumava ser oferecido como um download gratuito pela Wizards of the Coast.

Existem algumas formas documentadas diferentes de se tornar lich em AD & D 2E. Em ambos os casos, o Lich deve ser um mago de pelo menos 18º nível.

De acordo com o Compêndio Monstruoso AD e D 2E (Volume 1, TSR 2102 ) O assistente tem que criar um objeto mágico chamado phylactery usando o seguinte mecanismo:

In order to become a lich, the wizard must prepare its phylactery by the use of the enchant an item, magic jar, permanency and reincarnation spells. The phylactery, which can be almost any manner of object, must be of the finest craftsmanship and materials with a value of not less than 1,500 gold pieces per level of the wizard. Once this object is created, the would-be lich must craft a potion of extreme toxicity, which is then enchanted with the following spells: wraithform, permanency, cone of cold, feign death, and animate dead. When next the moon is full, the potion is imbibed. Rather than death, the potion causes the wizard to undergo a transformation into its new state. A system shock survival throw is required, with failure indicating an error in the creation of the potion which kills the wizard and renders him forever dead.

O Compêndio de Feitiços do Feiticeiro (Volume 4, TSR 2177 , p. 1087) dá uma pequena variação e mais detalhes.

• O filactério é encantado usando as magias que encantam um item, aprisionando a alma, os ninemen de Nulathoe e o jarro mágico.
• A poção é composta de arsênico, beladona, sangue de um potro pégaso morto por veneno wyvern, sangue de vampiro, coração intacto de um humanóide morto por arsênico & beladona, glândulas reprodutivas de sete traças gigantes recém-mortas, veneno de aranha de fase e veneno de wyvern; e não requer que magias sejam lançadas sobre ele.
• Outros procedimentos específicos são definidos em mais detalhes, incluindo o tempo, as chances de falha, o que acontece em caso de falhas, etc.

Para fornecer outra variação, além das detalhadas por Mark Beadles e ZwiQ , SJR1 Navios Perdidos descreve o "Archlich", um lich bem alinhado com algumas outras variações de suas habilidades. Um possível Archlich deve ser um mago ou sacerdote de pelo menos 18º nível ou um bardo de pelo menos 24º nível (até onde eu sei, a única opção de lichdom para bardos). O procedimento foi detalhado da seguinte forma:

...To become an archlich, a living spellcaster must create a magical item of some sort. By tradition, for most wizards this item is a miniature spellbook into which they put the nine spells they seek to carry forever in undeath.

A potion must then be created and enchanted with the spells animate dead, chill touch, contingency, pass without trace, permanency, teleport, trap the soul, and wraithform. The would-be archlich drinks the potion while touching the chosen magical item, which must be anointed with at least one drop of the would-be archlich's blood.

A single, secret spell is then cast, and the being either dies (07% chance) or enters undeath (83% chance) [sic], collapsing into a death-like slumber that lasts 4-16 turns. When the being awakes, it will be an archlich forevermore.

The potion may be created and the lichdom spell cast by the would-be archlich or by another being; i.e., a prospective archlich may achieve undeath through the magical assistance of another. The process cannot, however, work on an unwilling creature (its death will always result). The would-be archlich may also have aid in creating the magical item that stores its essence, but must take an active part in its creation.