A handsomely dressed carnival barker dressed in black with a top hat and cane toped with a sin counter bauble.
The local bard plays a sad tune as the carnival markers eyes transform into glowing purple amethyst gems
As the entities mouth opens you notice there ate no teeth or tongues to it at all the being mouth area is just empty space as the being begins talking to you.
“Not all liches chose to become liches. Some liches ended becoming beneficiaries in a eldritch pact they didn’t know was being made for them when that happens its because somebody abused the wish spell so that it does something wrong it normally shouldn’t.
For a time all sorts of wild unfair magic exists untill it exists in the form of a monkeys paw. Then some rich Nobel buys that monkeys paw somewhere for a laugh and says the wrong thing around it then boom they end up with a twisted wish.
Such as the wish to live forever.
At first your portrait phylactery only thinks its an accurate mirror and tries to drive you crazy to do anything. Then you just stuff all your magic gaffs in the basement and forget about them. After being ignored they twist and writhe in anger.
The once buetiful face you had as a painted lich fades and even the lips and tongue fall away in time.
Soon they die as what they were but return different. What was once a hideous portrait is now a beutifuly illustrated novel that can act as a spell book.
Thus the adventure begins a new to take your magic on the road, to collect more of it and to show the world what a heart and a mind can do when they work together.
You this time for certain rebuilt cell by cell back into the visage you once a before except this tome your form is just a bit more beutiful.
But you are just a level one necromancer at this point. Just another wet behind the ears necromancer trying to make a liveing in a cruel world.”
But you also have centuries of education and eternity to plot out your rise to power.
Eldritch Power. A Ring Master also attracts and commands lesser undead, . Death knights often use warhorse skeletons as mounts.
Immortal Redeemed. A Ring Master can arise anew even after it has been destroyed.
Undead Nature. A Ring Master doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
LICH KIN/ PAINTED LICH (RING MASTER)
Medium undead, chaotic good
Armor Class 13(dex plus cane)
Hit Points 45 (9d8 ) Only as a dred form
Speed 30 ft.
STR
20 (+5) Only as a dred form
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
20 (+5) Only as a dred form
INT
12 (+1) (+2 to this core stat when used as player race)
WIS
16 (+3)
CHA
18 (+4) (+2 to this core stat when used as player race)
Saving Throws Dex +6, Wis +9, Cha +10
Damage Immunities necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened, poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Undercommon, Common, English, Java
Challenge 8 (9,000 XP) ( 1000 xp mx per sparing session)
(These are the dred form powers of the ring master that may or may not persist with them as a level one necromancer)
Magic Resistance. she has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Moreover she is a child of lillith (by choice ) so she ha all the Immunities of the black blood librarians
Marshal Undead. Unless the Ring Master is incapacitated, it and undead creatures of its choice within 60 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against features that turn undead.
Dred power:. The Ring Master is a spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma but she may add her inteligence mod to this number.
The Ring Master autmomaticaly adds these spells to his list of spells known when she gets the right level to learn them.
1st level : command, compelled duel, searing smite
2nd level : hold person, magic weapon
3rd level : dispel magic, elemen weapon
4th level : banishment, staggering smite
5th level : destructive wave (necrotic)
Actions
( These abilities are standard fair for all ring masters)
Nothing up my sleeve: when you hit with a mellee weapon atack you can use any cantrip as a bonus action.
Transforming King of Spades trick:. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) slashing damage, or 10 (1d10 + 5) slashing damage if used with two hands, plus 1d6 (4) necrotic damage.
Hat of Tricks(1/Day). The Ring Master hurls a magical ball of fire that explodes at a point it can see within 120 feet of it. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a DC 10 + prof mod + into mod saving throw. The sphere spreads around corners. A creature takes 1d4 per profiency mod bonus in fire mage and 1d4 per proficiency mod bonus in necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on ar erp successful
Reactions
Hand is quicker than the eye:. The Ring master adds 4 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the death knight must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.
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The painted liches ,or portrait liches, and in this case the Ring Masters. look young soft an beutful but their portrait hides a more wicked version of themselves
When they destroy this portrait of their crimes. They then turn to a life of justice and that one portrait starts to burn away along with their dred power that gets confined to the forces of justice contained by their own made paladins creed. Theyb start taking a paladins oath only then can they look at there own pictures which now illustrates them heroicly throuaght their spell book.
However their lich phylactery is something far greater than a portrait now. Their lich phylactery is a belief a philosophy an idea.
Good look trying to destroy a philosophy because as long as at least one of our lich gifts lives on in some form we shall return in a weeks time
We a liches who will do things no other liches will dream of doing
We will fight for a cause bigger than ourselves.
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Painted liches including ring masters get a number of bonuses at each level to insure that that they can develop them selves in a sane peacefully way including the following.
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1: In order to remain as sane as possible Ring Masters keep lots of friends and pay them well for their work.
From a hat of tricks you can pull out 250 gold per class level but they must spend half of o. Their party or lose 2 points to each mental stats as of their mental stats. Regains injured parts of of their mind requires 1 mounth per point lost.
**Carnival creed of to great Show man:
1: Pay those who work with you well, and give something back to society**
2; Analog soul aka non sentient soul coppies: The factual knowledge of a person along with a historical account of their public life, a list of steps to develop talent like their, and the coding steps necesary in order to make a claptromantic similar to them are all conjured from a special amethyst crystal called an Amathax.
Two amathz crystals can be hooked into you spell book as it absorb their knowledge granting you 100 years more unlike and these benefits
* One skill per amathax [ copied from donors list]
* Four bonus hit points per amathax
- Two spells known level three [copied from donors list]
- Two languages: copied from the donors list.
- Two tool proficiencies: copied from from the donors list
- Two prestige bonuses coppied from the donors list.
You can hav upto as many amathax equal to you proficiency mod each new amathax adds 50 years and half these benefits to you life.
After 500 years you need to spend time reading your spell boook and meditating at which point you can start replacing you amathax with new ones this will add more years to your un-life
*Carnival creed rule number two: When you got a eat dont do it by stealing from somebody else’s plate.
Tho curb the Ring Masters more ghoulish appetites he focuses instead on harmless pranks she can use to momentarily slow the party
She does this by coming up with a challenge and if they beat it the rest of the party can select a prestige bonus from the Ring masters old Amathax collection.
Mean while the Ring Master gets to conjure 2,500 gold from his hat per class level and she can add one tactical or defensive spell to her list of spells known each tailored to perfectly help the party out.
Further more the Ring Master gets the spells forge purple haze wraith, that they can also use once per short rest. Aditionaly they get the feat: purple cloud jamboree.
*Carnival Rule Number three: I Grant you the honors I also grant to me.
In order to force themselves into becoming more courageous, heroic, and direct they force their minds into think up cunning clever ways of build other people up instead of tearing them down.
*A ring master cares for her friends more than anything and can master mind one plan to get the recourses to build them the perfect magical items
But to do this the part of a deadly plan to exercise demons disguised as humans and then contain them in magic jars that cant hurt Anybody
Then after the demons jars are delivered to the pit they come back empty but enchanted and can now be used as batteries that can be turned into rare magic items for them.
After doing this The Ring Master gets acess to the smite evil ability and any single target spell attack she makes may now benifit from the a smite evil factor. You smite evil with spells like a paladin of half your level.
Carnival Rule Number four: Fight like a proper warrior, or theirs the door.
In order to curb any lingering grandiose thoughts of rebuilding the whole world Ring Masters try to rebuild themselves to be their best versions of themselves first and then to lead by example.
The Ring Masters show off what a master tactician can do as long as they never give up on them selves but in order to do this they give up something precious.
They cant directly use atack magic on anything unless they are being attacked and they need to defendvthe lives of themselves or others.
If they make that sacrifice they get something called overwhelming tactical advantedge. They are so mystical powerful and such advanced thinkers that they can hold concentration on three spells at once.
Aditionaly as long as they hold a gift from a friend in their hand thay can cast beneficial spells on that friend at any distance on the same plane.
Carnival Rule number five: dark powers ar only ment to keep your friends alive.
One final standard they hold themselves to so that they never find themselves getting too greedy for power is to always share the powers they have with others and to never lay claim to anything they have not properly earned
They resolve this conundrum by converting the monkeys paw that transformed them into a weapon for justice.
Instead of getting thre extra wishes they wish that their dark powers could made into defensive and tactical focused gifts and so their monkey paw creates a staff or cane capped with a white marble gauntlet holding an amethyst orb carved to look like a sin counter.
The staff or cane has these these features.
- Enlarge spell now apllies to all Necromancy, illusion spells.
- Extend spell now apllies to all you neceomancyband illusion spells
- Any level one or two effect meant for one player can now be extended to affect the whole party once per short rest
- As long as the staff is intact level one, two, and, and three necromancy spells can be done once per short rest without demanding any material components. Instead ghosts from the mist walk momentarily take on the form of one of the solid undead to help you out.
Carnival Rule number six: forget about crossbows when you have a good stick
Finally the ring masters believe that leading an existence where future historians will remember you fondly will ensure that all overly destructive behaivor get minimized, and that this in turn creates a better world for when they come back to it.
From this moment on the Ring master is considered to be an arch lich and as such cant use certain spells that create or exploit others as true innocent victims.
They can however use shadow magic to emulate any conjuration or illusion, or necromancy spells to identical effects to these spells
However when foe fall to zero hit points from theses spells they only go to sleep four 1d4 rounds.
Then as they wake up they regains 1d8 hp per class level they own.
This reaction grants this effect.
Rin of returning: You own a magic ring that will re grow your body over 1d6 days (once per mounth) as long as your spell book is intact for the most part it will return with you.
Carnival rule number seven: all decent folk get a chance at seeing heaven.
