NRSASD
2022-08-08, 03:58 PM
Hello Playgrounders! I have an idea for a campaign but it’s missing a couple pieces. Allow me to explain:
Long ago, there was a creature we’ll call the Lizard King. He and his kind created the lizardfolk, dragonborn, kobolds, and dragons we see today. The Lizard King’s species went extinct, but deep in the jungle he held on.
The Lizard King figured out a way to become a living god; obscenely powerful and functionally immortal. One of his advisors, a kobold, had figured out a way to use this process to benefit all the various peoples and the land itself, but the Lizard King dismissed that idea and soul-trapped the advisor so no one could know about this other method.
2000 years ago, 5 mortal adventurers found the Lizard King and defeated him. He had been a tyrant and was slaughtering the adventurers’ peoples, so it was kinda warranted. The five adventurers figured out how the Lizard King became immortal and replicated the process, turning the mortal heroes into living gods.
They also sacrificed the Lizard King brutally and used his life force to fertilize their homeland, setting themselves up as gods to their people. As this happened, the Lizard King revealed that their ritual wouldn’t work forever: in 2000 years the land would become infertile and one of them would need to be sacrificed to renew the magic.
The new gods laughed this off as an idle threat and built a utopia in the meantime. To their credit, it mostly worked. That said, those 2000 years have now passed and the land is turning to dust. And now, the gods are jockeying for power, sizing one another up and determining which one is going to be the unlucky one. Deep in the jungle, meanwhile, the Lizard King is beginning to reform.
My questions for you fine fellows:
A. Are there any fun positive energy lich equivalents?
B. Any suggestions as to what the immortality process/device is? And how one could use it to either enrich the land or turn you into a “shoots-lightning-from-your-fingertips” god?
This is a system-agnostic question, so feel free to suggest. Thanks!
I’m currently thinking some sort of tree-of-life thing but I’m not completely sold on it.
Long ago, there was a creature we’ll call the Lizard King. He and his kind created the lizardfolk, dragonborn, kobolds, and dragons we see today. The Lizard King’s species went extinct, but deep in the jungle he held on.
The Lizard King figured out a way to become a living god; obscenely powerful and functionally immortal. One of his advisors, a kobold, had figured out a way to use this process to benefit all the various peoples and the land itself, but the Lizard King dismissed that idea and soul-trapped the advisor so no one could know about this other method.
2000 years ago, 5 mortal adventurers found the Lizard King and defeated him. He had been a tyrant and was slaughtering the adventurers’ peoples, so it was kinda warranted. The five adventurers figured out how the Lizard King became immortal and replicated the process, turning the mortal heroes into living gods.
They also sacrificed the Lizard King brutally and used his life force to fertilize their homeland, setting themselves up as gods to their people. As this happened, the Lizard King revealed that their ritual wouldn’t work forever: in 2000 years the land would become infertile and one of them would need to be sacrificed to renew the magic.
The new gods laughed this off as an idle threat and built a utopia in the meantime. To their credit, it mostly worked. That said, those 2000 years have now passed and the land is turning to dust. And now, the gods are jockeying for power, sizing one another up and determining which one is going to be the unlucky one. Deep in the jungle, meanwhile, the Lizard King is beginning to reform.
My questions for you fine fellows:
A. Are there any fun positive energy lich equivalents?
B. Any suggestions as to what the immortality process/device is? And how one could use it to either enrich the land or turn you into a “shoots-lightning-from-your-fingertips” god?
This is a system-agnostic question, so feel free to suggest. Thanks!
I’m currently thinking some sort of tree-of-life thing but I’m not completely sold on it.