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Myrmomancer
May 31, 2014

Skylark posted:

You raise an interesting point... So were litches actually first invented for Dungeons and Dragons? I thought all the monsters in that were traditional and existed in various folk traditions or whatever.

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Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, stated that he based the description of a lich included in the game on the short story "The Sword of the Sorcerer" by Gardner Fox.

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Myrmomancer
May 31, 2014

Verisimilidude posted:

yeah, voldemort is basically a lich but maybe Rowling wasn't up on our hip nerd vernacular so she called the phylactery a horcrux instead.

but I would say that a lich is really more the corpse of a wizard who managed to seal off their soul into a phylactery for safety's sake.

the real question is what the hell is a demi lich?

Answer: the lich gets bored with the world and fucks off to another dimension, leaving its body behind. Magic keeps the body going, but usually just as a head or something. A demilich will eat your soul

Real answer: A cheap rear end in a top hat skull that is hard to hit

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