D&D Players, What’s your favorite phylactery? #dnd

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1. A ring on either a crawling claw or skeletal mouse thats running around the dungeon

2. Liches who are each other's phylacteries.

3. So I have a silly one 🤔😅…..mumafiled penis! Phylactery is the mummified remains of the Liches dongle! 😂 Like that joke in the movie Ghost Town 🤣

4. We have an accidental lich. His name is Garfunkel, and he was just a guy who read the wrong cookbook, the necronomicon. His phylactery is mayo jar in a fridge, in his tower. Most of this undead numbskull's spells are food renamed and reworked. Fireball is now Spicy Habanero Tuesday and does acid damage.

5. In the Long Running campaign I run, 1 of the PC's dad is the Lich and secret mastermind as they've discovered. The PC wants nothing more than to kill her dad. What no one knows is that she is her father's Phylactery. The party will have to kill their friend to kill the boss… I know the player will dive on their sword the moment they find this out in character.
   So fucking hard keeping this secret from my best friend for the past 10 years haha

6. A simple one perhaps, instead of the previous looking bauble in the heavily protected vault have it be the pedestal it's set upon.

7. The statue of a deity one of the players worships in the room of the high priest

8. I ran an undead warlock who was his lich patron's living phylactery (it was a heavily homebrewed game), and was the last sacrifice to bring his patron to lichdom. The patron was his best friend in life, the two of them reigning terror across the land as they went along their way, my warlock acting as the lich's blade and weapon while the lich was the magical mastermind.

   As an adventurer, he was always on the move gathering dead to become part of his patron's undead army, and we managed to slip under the radar of one of the crusader groups by claiming we were only doing so in order to protect ourselves from the three other older, stronger liches. This was a tentative agreement that required my warlock to be somewhat babysat by the party cleric, who would turn undead me whenever I ticked her off.

9. The urn housing the ashes of the rogue's deceased parents.

10. So, the party enters an ancient and crumbling ruin, heading down into the severely trapped dungeon, defeat the lich, and find a large crystal sphere, several rings and an amulet upon the lich, a chest with several thousand gold coins. and, of course, a spellbook. Most folks would suspect the crystal sphere, the most obvious. Others would think of the jewelry, or even the chest or spellbook.

    No one thinks of one of OVER A THOUSAND gold coins, which will simply get spent, stored, horded, and respent again and again, no one suspecting what it really is.

11. Me: becomes lich and uses true polymorphic to turn my philactery into a terasque (if that’s not a option I’ll do something to make it the heart of a terasque)

12. I was in an Evil Campaign some years ago, and we started at level 10. I went Fiend Warlock, friend went Necromancer. (We also had an Assassin, but he isn't relevant to the story here).

    My character was a Soul Merchant and political manipulator, with goals of disrupting the hierarchy of the Nine Hells to achieve a personal vendetta.

    Of course, the Necromancer wanted to become a Lich, which my character helped him achieve after agreeing that I would maintain possession of his Phylactery. I turned it into a Ring, a la Sauron.

    If I'm ever accosted by Heroes and the like, my typical M.O. is to summon the Lich, pop a Planeshift with my Robes of the Archmage, and chillax in Hel while the Lich deals with it 😂

13. im currently creating a world where i have an evil lich named Karlov who is also a god. His phylactery is, uhh, the entire fucking planet. He has a deal with another evil god named Khayne (the violence god) that basically means that all murder victims will feed his phylactery

14. I made a lich, who's Phylactery is his sister's corpse. He believes she is in a deep sleep that suspends her soul outside of time! And once he removes all the evil in the plane, he will awaken her once again! So they can live together peaceful.

    So the party has the decision to defile the corpse of a little girl? Or leave it be, and have to deal with the lich again later on?

15. Sooooo many of these aren’t legal phylacteries.

16. My favorite was a revenant whose lingering regret was to destroy the lich. The revenant would always reconstitute as long as the lich was a threat, and the lich would regenerate if the revenant was still around. It created a fun catch 22 where the revenant could never die because the litch was always a threat as long as they were around, causing them to regenerate even if they didn't want to.

17. in the shell of an immortal snail, the snail is part of the classic you are immortal but are constantly pursued by a snail thing, but the immortal trapped it in the astral plane and lives in a kingdom known for being surrounded by it's great salt plains.

18. 4:50 : That sounds like it could lead to some very interesting story points for a player character, a Sorcerer who's power comes from the fact that their bloodline is the phylactery for a litch. The player wouldn't know about it at first, but there would be subtle clues to indicate it. While the Litch would waste no time in trying to kill other members of the party, they would try to incapacitate the player instead, and try to keep them out of harm's way. While the Litch would try to hide it, whenever the player got hurt, the Litch would feel the pain as well.

19. That reminds me of a novel I read, the lich was extremely strong, and had kidnapped one of the party's member because she looked like his deceased wife. The lich lived inside a castle and they had found a black box sitting on the throne. They fought the lich and managed to land a hit on the box…. The box was actually the ashes of his deceased wife, not his philactery. His philactery was actually the whole casle, they ended up destroying it with a meteor-like spell. (One time use.) It's called salvos if you want to read it.

20. "My phylactery, well. It is here with me. It is not my cloth nor jewelery. And not my Spellbook either, silly. I wear it with me like an organ deep inside my body.
    I wanted eternal life, not no-life at-all. What a waste it would be to have to safe guard my phylactery in a place that is not with me. A prisoner of my own making.
    And also people are quit good in defending their own lives, are we not?"

21. Question my apprentice made his phylactery a Tupperware box is there anyway to change it

22. A story my dad told me for a Lich he played.
    He made his phylactery a Shield Guardian, which both met the cost requirement and required its own phylactery. The Shield Guardian's phylactery was another Shield Guardian. He did that till he had 4 Shield Guardians. Then for the last Shield Guardian's phylactery, he got ahold of nearly indestructible star metal due to a random encounter, used it to forge a minecart, and had one of the Guardians carry it around.

23. How big can a phylactery be according to the rules? Is there anything stopping it from being a planet or moon?

24. A hilarious idea that I heard once was to make a fellow lich your phylactery.

    Think about it, as long as you two are never within ten+ days of each other you both can never truly die. Even if you figure out these two specific liches are each other's phylacteries…how are you going to ever kill them both?

25. Some good ones here, my idea about a unique liches phylactery is less what and more where; buried 3 ft behind a completely normal seeming wall in a dungeon. Normal seeming, because it is, in fact, completely normal, no different from the other 4 walls which make the room up.

26. My favorites is an artifact level cursed item, that rather instead of re-constituting the lich, slowly changes the wearer into the lich. This means if the lich has it on while their body was destroyed, it would not come back until somebody put it on. And even if it was on, it would take months to convert the new host. Don't make deals with devils for immortality.

27. The rather basic looking pedestal that some sort of ornate anything, in a hall of treasure.

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