Lich as a Race

[Koshnek]

So I had an idea I wanted to make. Christian also had some interest in something similar - so I decided to give it a shot. Lich as a Race!

Lich Racial Statistics
Bad Reputation: Liches are infamous as evil masterminds and rulers of undead hordes. The average person hates and fears Liches; they suffer a -4 Charisma penalty with most folks who discover who and what they are. (-1)
Cyber Resistant: Liches cannot take any Iconic Framework that includes cybernetics as an inherent ability (including the bio-comp system needed to be a Juicer), nor may they roll on the Cybernetics benefits table. (-1)
Distinctive D-Bee: As powerful undead, liches face prejudice. They suffer −4 Charisma with CS citizens. (-2)
Enlightened: Agelessness has granted the lich ample opportunity to increase his mental faculties. Liches begin play with d6 Smarts (natural maximum d12+1) and d6 Spirit (natural maximum d12+1). (+4)
Holy Aversion: As creatures animated by evil magic, Liches have a natural aversion to Holy effects. They suffer a –4 penalty to resist holy effects, and suffering an attack based on that form, the penalty acts as a bonus to damage. (-1)
Overconfident: All Liches are inherently Overconfident in addition to any Hindrances chosen by the player. (-2)
Phylactery: Liches create a phylactery which allow them to transcend death. It also helps rejuvenate their bodies. They regenerate quickly and may make a natural Healing roll once per day (rather than once per week). However, they must replenish their unlife force by spending at least an hour in contact with their phylactery per day. Failure to do so results in an automatic level of Fatigue each day until they’re Incapacitated. A day after that, they perish. Each hour spent recovering with the phylactery restores a level of Fatigue. (+0).
Restricted Path: Liches have no capacity for psionics. They cannot take any Arcane Background using ISP, nor any Iconic Framework that includes it. (-1)
Undead: No longer amongst the living, Liches do not need to breath and are immune to Poison and Disease. They also suffer no additional damage from called shots and ignore one level of Wound Modifiers. (+7)
Wanted (Federation): Dunscon, in particular, has ordered that Liches discovered in the Federation should be brought into his service or destroyed. (-1)

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Thoughts, Opinions, and Such?

[Koshnek]

First thought: I did not give Lich an AB! Critical error...but then that removes Restricted Path -1 and I would be 1 point short. Should lich be shoehorned into AB: Magic?

[Freemage]

I see no problem with opening it up to non-AB (or to any of a number of PPE-based ABs, for that matter). Think a Crow-style revenant. Take Vow to represent the thing that drives him out of the grave, and presto!

Likewise, I could see a former Necromancer's assistant being transformed first, as part of the experimentation process. You get the phylactery, and the immortality, and then the villagers show up and burn the Necro while you escape into the night.

[Snake Eyes]

This looks pretty good to me. I think I mentioned in the chat the possibility of a lich being a sacred guardian of a place / people / item, in which case it might not necessarily be an evil creature averse to holy damage. Maybe in that case, they take a vulnerability to unholy / evil damage? Other than that, most everything else is there.

[High Command]

Imma still kill it.

[Koshnek]

At work so can’t be too in depth, but how about (Un)holy Aversion? Depending on the characters background and source of unlife, they take increased damage from either holy or nexromantic sources?

I think leaving it as Holy and leaving it to GM and player to change the resistance might be better.

Alternate option, leave it the same and word it similar to champion and holy warrior, but reverse. Most liches are created through dark Magic’s, but those created through more righteous magic areinstead weak towards dark magic?

[Koshnek]

(Un)holy Aversion: As creatures animated by evil magic, Liches have a natural aversion to Holy effects. They suffer a –4 penalty to resist holy effects, and suffering an attack based on that form, the penalty acts as a bonus to damage. Should the Lich be reanimated by the forces of good, they are instead weak to unholy effects such as necromancy. (-1)

Something like that?

[Snake Eyes]

Works for me.

[Ndreare]

Nope,

I think we need to kill these things. Not let them run around with us.

[High Command]

+1 to Rob

[Freemage]

Rob: i remind you that one of your traveling companions right now is a demon....

[Ndreare]

To be fair he is allowed to be with us because an angel from heaven said that he gets a chance at redemption. And Echo is about the most accepting character you can be. Because she's been a villain a time or two