Re: jackels creations
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:17 pm
OK, went with Joe's idea: Lesser Wights... here is the relevant paragraph.
The Constitution damage is permanent, a result of physical and psychic drain. Due to longevity and/or vitality traits, elves can ignore the first 10 points of Constitution drain; dwarves the first 4 points, and halflings the first 2 points of loss. Lost Constitution can be regained at a rate of 1 point per casting of restoration spell; nothing else (except a wish) can restore Constitution lost to a lich. If a character's Constitution falls to 0, he or she dies immediately, but will rise the following round as a sort of lesser wight. Use statistics for wight in the core rules, but instead of energy drain, the lesser wights do 1d4 damage plus 1 point of Constitution damage like their lich master. The lesser wights remain under the control of the lich for one month then wander off, becoming normal free-willed wights in all ways. Those whom were drained and subsequently defeated are permanently dead and cannot be raised (but may still be reincarnated). Others who die while battling a lich are often still used as raw material for animate dead spell or even more sinister magics.