[Necromancy] Item - Robe of the Lich King

This black robe once belonged to the lich king Vernyx Dai'athell, who helmed the Black Brotherhood faction during the Necromancer's Civil War. As expected of an archlich, one scattered fragment of Vernyx's soul remains hidden in the robe, awaiting the opportunity to return to full life.

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Robe of the Lich King
Wondrous item, artifact (requires attunement by a spellcaster)

You must spend the duration of the attunement period wearing the robe. Once attuned, the robe binds to you and partially withers your limbs into blackened claws. If you end your attunement to the robe, you die and cannot be resurrected without an effect short of a true resurrection spell.

Semi-Sentience. The robe is imbued with a fragment of Vernyx's soul. Robe of the Lich King is a semi-sentient lawful evil robe with a Wisdom of 14 and a Charisma of 12. It cannot see or communicate, but can sense the intentions and actions of its wielder. The robe subtly casts suggestion (save DC 18) on the wielder to convince it take steps toward the resurrection of Vernyx, starting with use of the robe's Necropolis property. If the robe's wearer casts restless necropolis* from the robe such that it becomes permanent, Vernyx's soul grows strong enough to return to the world, free to possess bodies or accomplish his goals.

Necromancer's Robe. While attuned to this robe, you have resistance to necrotic and poison damage. If you have at least one level of the wizard class, you can copy any of the spells listed in the Spellcasting property to your spellbook without paying its gold cost, provided it is of a level you can cast. Finally, when you cast a necromancy spell that consumes a material component, the cost of the component is halved.

Empowered Necromancy. If you cast a necromancy spell while attuned to this robe, you have a +3 bonus to your spell attack rolls and spell save DC related to that spell. If you expended a spell slot to cast that spell, you regain hit points equal to twice the level of the spell slot expended.

Antimagic Weave. Whenever a spell targets you, roll a d6. On a roll of 1 or 2, the spell has no effect. If that spell is a necromancy spell, it has no effect if the roll is a 1, 2, 3, or 4 instead.

Spellcasting. This robe has 10 charges and regains 1d6+4 expended charges daily at dusk. While you wear this robe, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells from it without requiring components, expending the necessary number of charges: fear (3 charges), flash of decay* (1 charge), ghostly haunt* (4 charges), levitate (2 charges), throat rot* (2 charge), vampiric touch (3 charges). You use your spell save DC for the DC of these spells.

Necropolis. While you wear the robe, you can cast restless necropolis* from it without providing material components. Once you cast this spell, you can't cast it again until the next dusk. If you cast the spell in the same area the following day, its casting time becomes 1 action instead of 10 minutes.

* Necromancy Spells can be found at This Post

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DESIGN COMMENTARY

An artifact with a straightforward built-in storyline for Vernyx to return as the lich king he is. Many of the features are designed around being really good at necromancy - a small gift in exchange for unwittingly fulfilling Vernyx's goals.

As an artifact, this item basically has no power cap. Be careful when giving this to your players!

One thing I did this time around is include SRD spells to replace the custom spells.