What would a lich want?

What a lich craves is power. A lawful evil lich desires the ability to dominate others. A chaotic evil lich craves the power to destroy. A neutral evil lich may want one or the other, or both.
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What does a lich need to survive?

A lich does not need to eat, sleep or breathe, but over its epic lifespan must eventually consume mortal souls to sustain the magic that protects its undead form. A lich who fails to maintain their body in this way degrades into a demilich, a form consisting of a single bone, usually a skull.
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What is a lich weakness?

Actually, a lich has one other weakness, and that's its arrogance.
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What can a lich do?

For example, it can put mortals in a paralyzed state of hibernation with their minds, making them seem dead to others, and can, through its typically powerful magical spells, summon other lesser undead to protect it. A Lich's bones do not decay.
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What magic items should a lich have?

Some good magic items include a staff of power which gives the lich +2 to AC, saving throws, and spell attacks and black robes of the archmagi which gives the lich an AC to 18, +2 to DCs and spell attacks, and advantage on saving throws.
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Who is the strongest lich in D&D?

Abilities. Larloch the Shadow King was an awesomely powerful lich mage, supported by his spells, an arsenal of magic items, and a range of undead powers.
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Does Turn undead work on lich?

Yes, the seventh level spell Control Undead can control a lich, as long as it fails its SR and will save. This is like how say any living guy can be controlled by the fifth level spell Dominate Person.
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How can a lich become a god?

1 Liches Can Become Gods

The power of a god in DnD is usually directly tied to the number of worshippers he or she has, which can prove a problem for most liches. Despite their mastery of undeath and the arcane, liches aren't very well known for their social skills.
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Can a non wizard become a lich?

According to the D&D 5e Monster Manual, a lich must absorb souls to survive, which requires the use of the 9th level imprisonment spell. This canonically makes it difficult to be a lich in 5e unless you're a wizard (or warlock) or have some other way to cast the spell.
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Are magical girls liches?

Magical Girl Apocalypse: The terrifying and murderous Magical Girls are liches in all but the name.
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What powers do liches have?

Applications
  • Reanimation.
  • Spirit Magic.
  • Undead Manipulation. Mind Control. Phantasm Manipulation. Undead Magic.
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Is there such thing as a good lich?

Archliches were a type of lich that was good and noble, both in life and undeath. They could be of any type of spellcaster—including wizards, bards or clerics—and devoted their existence to whatever noble purpose motivated their transformation into lichdom.
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What is a Demi Lich?

Demilich may refer to: A type of lich, a creature in fantasy fiction. Demilich (band), a Finnish death metal band. Demilich (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of lich found in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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Do liches need to eat souls?

The whole "liches must feed souls to their phylactery" thing is a recent development, and although adds additional evil to the common evil lich, but may have been an oversight because of the non-evil liches that do exist in lore.
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What happens when a lich consumes a soul?

the lich uses the [imprisonment] spell to magically trap the target's body and soul inside its phylactery.... A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life.
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Can a vampire turn into a lich?

In 3.5e, a vampire cannot become a lich. Only humanoids (and some other creatures, such as specific aberration and monstrous humanoid races) can become liches, and vampires have the "undead" type, not the "humanoid" type.
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Can liches be clerics?

Clerics are healers so perhaps a cleric-lich would be a healer of the undead - uses spells like transference or negative energy flood. Historically, any spellcaster who was a high enough level could become a lich, even one you wouldn't normally associate with undeath, like a druid or bard.
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Is a lich a skeleton?

You pretty much explain the difference; a Lich will have their soul bound to a phylactery and are essentially immortal. Skeletal mages are not and do not bind their souls to a phylactery. A lich is almost dead and hangs onto life by magical means. A skeletal mage is undead.
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How many phylacteries can a lich have?

Liches are generally described as only using one phylactery at a time, even the powerful Acererak, but I don't see any reason you couldn't craft spares, perhaps as decoys.
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Is AINZ an elder Lich?

On the other hand, there were many many different kinds of Elder Liches. This includes the Elder Lich Iguva=41 that Ainz managed to summon who was only level 22. While the Elder Liches working in Ashurbanipal were nicknamed White Counterfeiters, they were only level 30 and are ranked second in the Elder Lich family.
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What happens if a lich's phylactery is destroyed?

If a lich's physical body was destroyed, it could regenerate itself where its phylactery was located within a tenday, with a new body appearing adjacent to it. However, if the phylactery itself was destroyed, then the lich could not regenerate and would remain destroyed.
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How strong should a party be to fight a lich?

This encounter is basically unwinnable for a Level 3 party.

A single Lich has a challenge rating of 21 which, according to this guide, makes it an appropriate encounter for a whole party at level 17.
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Is a lich a good BBEG?

First off let's be clear, liches are powerful enemies that should only be used as the “big bad evil guy” (or BBEG). They're at such a high CR for a reason and you really shouldn't throw them at any party lower than level 14 at the absolute lowest and they're best suited as a final end boss at levels 16 to 17.
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Can a lich look human?

Because Nondetection, Mindblank, and Nystul's Magic Aura are all non-concentration spells, the Lich could have all of them cast on himself in addition to Alter Self or Disguise Self, making him appear human to both physical and magical senses. notably, Disguise Self doesn't require concentration, either.
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