Many seasons past, the Liche Lord Korag Tor was defeated by a powerful sorcerer. He was finally held from his ability to regenerate himself. He now roams the dungeon, a lost tortured soul awaiting another way to free himself from his substanceless form. Now sometime later he has found a way, and his loyal minions rush to carry it out. The blood of a magical beast poured on the bones of the Liche Lord will bring him back. His followers have the blood and now travel back to the dungeon.
For this adventure, use the Dread King's Throne Room Objective Room board section from the Catacombs of Terror Adventure Pack. The Liche Lord has the same characteristics as a Liche from the Warhammer Quest Roleplay Book.
At the start of the adventure, roll 2D6, add the numbers and then double it. The resulting amount is the number of turns the Warriors have to reach the Throne Room before Korag-Tor's minions arrive.
The adventurers must hurry into and through the dungeon to the Liche's bones and destroy them before his minions return with the blood. Whenever a Monster is killed roll 1D6. On a roll of 1 the bodiless soul of Korag-Tor passes through the body and the Monster is resurrected. However, the Warriors still receive the Gold value for killing it. The Monster now has half of its original Wounds. Upon death a second time, the Warriors receive half of the Monsters Gold value.
If the Warriors do not make it to the Throne Room before their time is up, Korag Tor's minions have arrived before them and have already performed the ritual. A blood curdling cry echoes around the dungeon at the Liche Lord's regeneration. When the Warriors reach the Throne Room he will be waiting for them. Roll once on the Monster Table for the Liche Lord's minions, and once on the Monster Table one level above the current Warriors' Battle Level for the Monsters that the Liche Lord has summoned. The Liche Lord is also there. If the Warriors manage to defeat the Monsters, as well as taking an Objective Room Treasure Card, each Warrior finds 1D6 x 100 Gold.
If the Warriors reach the Throne Room before their time is up, they have caught Korag-Tor's minions beginning the ritual. Roll for Objective Room Monsters as normal to represent Korag-Tor's minions. Once all the Monsters are killed, as well as receiving an Objective Room Treasure Card, the Warriors search the Liche Lord's treasure pile and each find two Treasure Cards and 1D6 x 100 Gold.
Copyright © Ben Head 1996*
You need to get to that Liche quickly! If you don't you can expect this room to be much more difficult. As soon as there is a gap in his minions take it and charge him.
Engage him with missile weapons first. This bastard is extremely tough in hand to hand due to both his high weapon skill, high wounds, and high offensive punch.
Be cheap if you have to, no one ever felt bad about throwing a few fire bombs into the fray just to hurt him a bit more.
Most importantly try to negate his magic ability. Break out the magic dispelling equipment and if you have to get someone close with an item that negates all adj. magic.
We were late when we ran through this and the toughest part is by far the objective room when you have a Liche involved. Once we were in the objective room we played for 2 and half hours. Firstly we waded through minions, and then we fought some more minions, and then finally some more. Loric the Dwarf became adventourous after a while, and tried to go hand to hand with the Liche. He drew his Hydrasword and we both expected this quest to be done within 5 minutes. Unfortunately Loric missed both attacks and then took the brunt of the Liche's attacks, quickly knocking him done to 0 wounds. A Golden Lion Blessing saved his ass and he quickly retreated from hand to hand. After a while we managed to knock out enough minions that 4 out of 5 of us were unpinned. We all prepared our missile weapons and let loose. 1 Witch Hunter, 1 Musket, 1 Surefire bow, 1 elven bow, and (as soon as the last minion was dealt with) a brace of pistols all opened up on the Liche. This hurt him bad and then all the warriors blitzed him engaging in hand to hand. After this he was quick to fall.
*Concerning the author of this document: Chris Bradley's name was also on this document. I would assume, since Ben Head's copyright info appears just before the Hints and Tips section, that this means that Chris added the Hints and Tips and the Stories sections, but I am not sure. Old Warrior