Dungeons & Dragons Lore: What are Liches?

[@karldehaut]

The lich meets Death who tells it “Immortality doesn’t imply eternity.”

[@xavierp7658]

Just what I needed for my wizard player who announced last session that he was on a quest to become a lich

[@reddog4091]

I was listening to this in the background on auto play and did not realize this isn't vampire the masquerade lore until he mentioned the party barbarian wanting a better sword.

[@mister_r447]

I've heard that, in the positive energy plane, mini souls are constantly coming into existance only to instantly colapse. I wonder if a Lich could create a gate to the positive energy plane and feed those souls to their philactary.

[@darkhorse989]

"You must be a wizard to be a lich..." The sentient talking hat and his human familiar would like a word with you.

[@tysondennis1016]

Yeah, loved all his lich variants.

[@Kunori]

Methinks I shall stick with my clones, thanks.

[@Joshua-fo9zw]

My favorite BBEG was a Liched Bard named Frankenfurter. Those sessions were astounding, time was fleeting, madness takes it's tole, but listen closely... BARD LICH?!?!? impossible. DM is more powerful than any and all D&D gods combined, and evil wizard/necromancer cult, experimental rituals, funded by an elderly King, an unfortunate Bard captured in the woods and subject to well, a fate more than death.

[@ScottBoydathome]

Pathfinder was here, we did this shit back in 2010.

[@Joshua-fo9zw]

@@ScottBoydathome I did it in 1993, Senior year of Highschool, and by "this shit" do you mean variant lich or rip off a major cult movie classic for a tabletop session?

[@MishaDalila]

@@Joshua-fo9zw Fun Fact (Or not so fun): In the middle ages there was a strange disease that make people play music and dance until death (real). Thou it was a short period it was concluded the cure was to host partys and celebrations and suddenly the cases were gone.

[@Joshua-fo9zw]

@@MishaDalila enough parties were hosted that enough wall flowers and kill joys were invited to kill the vibe, forcing the lich to move on.

[@nbmoleminer5051]

❤

[@Florian0799]

Would divine intervention work for destroying a phylactery?

[@theashspawn]

How to destroy a phylactery can actually be different to each Lich. Some might be quite easy to destroy (for a Lich) others can have a whole campaign based around it. So if a wish spell or divine intervention are used than its really up to the DM if it works or not. However if it is a particualy powerful Lich that cant be destroyed in such a way then using this would tell you the location of the phylactery instead and maybe how you can destroy it.

[@Florian0799]

@@theashspawn Are there also phylacteries than that are utterly impossible to destroy?

[@theashspawn]

@@Florian0799 as far as I'm aware no. There is always a way to destroy a phylactery even if the Lich doesn't know it. But not only are there ways from them to still come back like something akin to a clone spell (although if you get them after that they might be gone for good). But they could also just make another phylactery despite how difficult it is.

[@Florian0799]

@@theashspawn So in essence turn them into a mindflayer and then kill them to be sure that they are gone for good? After all souls vanish after ceremorphosis.

[@tysondennis1016]

If the DM is okay with it.

[@tysondennis1016]

My first character died to a lich.

[@Glowkite]

Can sorcerers become liches?

[@theashspawn]

Technically yes but it would require you to take some levels in wizard. You need to have some wizardry arcane knowledge to do so but you dont need to be a full one

[@Archangelm127]

And if the gods themselves may die... what does this say of you... and I?