Playable Lineage Rules for the conversion of unfortunate PCs into Nothics
18 Feats and Flaws in a structured feat selection tree
1 New Creature Statblock
Detailed notes and rules covering the circumstances in which a PC may, or may not, be able to attempt to become a lich
Exactly what happens when if they fail
Sure, you’re a nice DM. You want to give your players what they want. But when what they want is to play “Something from the Monster Manual”, then that’s just not practical. Or is it?
Give the player all the powers of the Monster Stat Block and you’ll usually unbalance your game and seriously annoy all your other players. Restrict the player to a reskinned and reflavored version of an existing playable race and the player is unlikely to get the epic feeling they wanted. However, we believe most playable monster requests can be met, and met in a way that will leave everyone happy. Apart from liches. We don’t think it is at all advisable to become a lich, but you’ve pestered us, a lot, and so here we lay out our rules for a DM to permit such a transformation - if the player gets lucky enough. If the DM decides success is a real possibility then the aspiring lich will also need access to our Corporeal Undead rules.
But beware what you wish for, because a Nothic Transformation often results from a creature attempting to become a lich and failing, unsuccessfully casting magic beyond their usual capabilities, or being exposed to an extreme magical accident.
- from the publisher's blurb