Leliel
2008-08-10, 04:13 PM
Anyway, I just got the PDF of the Ravenloft book Van Richten's Guide To The Lich for 4E ideas, and one entry caught my eye-in Ravenloft, liches can perform a "power ritual" that both ups their power significantly for a short time and research and develop spells much more efficiently for about a month.
From there, I got these basic parameters for a ritual based on this process-
*The Power Ritual can only be cast by a lich, quite obviously.
*The ritual, if successful, will triple the effects of all the liches spells for 1d20 hours-simple enough, triple the range, AOE, duration of any effects, and damage of the lich's spells-and renders him invulnerable to all forms of mundane harm for 1d20 days.
*All daily spells only require a short rest to recharge for a month-long period from the completion of the ritual.
*If the lich has an uninterrupted period of studying for the next month, he gains a level.
*The effect I have a problem with: The Power Ritual as written in Guide, allows a lich to instantly transcribe any spell he reads into his book, but this is 4th edition, and so, wizards nor warlocks do that, so I need help upgrading this effect.
Besides that, I have no idea what the casting time for the ritual should be-after taking the necessary steps of preparing the area for it, which takes several days-and many of the spells used in the book to prepare for the ritual no longer exist (such as wish, stabilize, wind wall, and guards and wards) in a form that I know.
So could you help a fellow out?
From there, I got these basic parameters for a ritual based on this process-
*The Power Ritual can only be cast by a lich, quite obviously.
*The ritual, if successful, will triple the effects of all the liches spells for 1d20 hours-simple enough, triple the range, AOE, duration of any effects, and damage of the lich's spells-and renders him invulnerable to all forms of mundane harm for 1d20 days.
*All daily spells only require a short rest to recharge for a month-long period from the completion of the ritual.
*If the lich has an uninterrupted period of studying for the next month, he gains a level.
*The effect I have a problem with: The Power Ritual as written in Guide, allows a lich to instantly transcribe any spell he reads into his book, but this is 4th edition, and so, wizards nor warlocks do that, so I need help upgrading this effect.
Besides that, I have no idea what the casting time for the ritual should be-after taking the necessary steps of preparing the area for it, which takes several days-and many of the spells used in the book to prepare for the ritual no longer exist (such as wish, stabilize, wind wall, and guards and wards) in a form that I know.
So could you help a fellow out?