Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Historical Occultists as Liches


I've previous covered how to use naughty Popes as a source of historical inspiration for liches.  Here's another source of historical inspiration: Wikipedia's list of occultists.

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  1. Somebody could have a lot of fun with a lichified Jack Parsons.

    In a modern or fantastic setting.

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    1. A shadowy battle between awakened thetans and the lich behind the space race for control of the world.

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    2. I like it. That would be the best Spelljammer.

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    3. Oh God. My friend wants me to run a Spelljammer game and that might have to be one of the plot hooks.

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    4. Do it and then report back as to how it went!

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  2. I do love that sketch of a lich. Classic AD&D monster, and party killer - in more ways than one :)

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  3. Nice! Now I want to flip the premise, say everyone on that page is the starter set of liches, build a setting around their inevitable grudge match. "Aleister Crowley was actually a Malkavian."

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    1. Hahaha, yeah, that would be cool, actually. LICH WARS!

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  4. Good stuff. I'm going to try and use this for some of my WFRP cultists/monks...

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