According to the monster manual, the only way to destroy a lich's phylactery is by conducting a very special holy ritual. But this ritual is not further explained. Is this supposed to be left to the imagination? If so, how have you destroyed phylactery's in past games? Or is this ritual talked about in a different book?
It is left to the DMs discretion. They can make the ritual as simple (smash it with a rock) or complex (dissolve in in a mixture of mercury and the tears on an angel on the beach sanctified by a martyr in the service of the god of light at high noon on the summer solstice while chanting the magic phrases) as they like.
My games have leaned more toward smash it with a rock, because simple was what better served those stories.
My previous experiences with phylactery destruction tended toward the complexity of casting it into a bubling volcano, or into a magically enhanced forge. A level of sustained damage beyond what an individual could do on their own, but more of an errand than a ritual. It didn't need to be either of those two things specifically.
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According to the monster manual, the only way to destroy a lich's phylactery is by conducting a very special holy ritual. But this ritual is not further explained. Is this supposed to be left to the imagination? If so, how have you destroyed phylactery's in past games? Or is this ritual talked about in a different book?
It is left to the DMs discretion. They can make the ritual as simple (smash it with a rock) or complex (dissolve in in a mixture of mercury and the tears on an angel on the beach sanctified by a martyr in the service of the god of light at high noon on the summer solstice while chanting the magic phrases) as they like.
My games have leaned more toward smash it with a rock, because simple was what better served those stories.
My previous experiences with phylactery destruction tended toward the complexity of casting it into a bubling volcano, or into a magically enhanced forge. A level of sustained damage beyond what an individual could do on their own, but more of an errand than a ritual. It didn't need to be either of those two things specifically.