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Driven by ambition, some powerful spellcasters attempt to cheat death itself. Those who succeed become Liches. Those who fail are cast into the Abyss.

Statistics[]

Race: undead
Size: medium
Alignment: neutral evil
Armor class: 18
Hit points: 130
Attack bonus: +10/+5
Damage: 1d8 piercing-slashing damage (criticals: 20/x2)

Hit dice (level): 20
Spellcasting: wizard 20
Challenge rating: 25

Saves
  fortitude 8
reflex 8
will 15
Abilities
  strength 10
dexterity 14
constitution 11
intelligence 25
wisdom 16
charisma 14
Turn resistance: +4
Damage immunity
  cold 100%
  electrical 100%
Damage reduction: 15/+1

Trained skills:(‡) concentration (23), hide (10), listen (24), lore (30), move silently (10), search (27), spellcraft (30), spot (22)
Feats: alertness, combat casting, dodge, great fortitude, mobility, quick to master, spell focus (enchantment and evocation), spell penetration, toughness, weapon proficiency (creature), weapon proficiency (wizard)

Blueprint:(‡) x2_s_lich_22

Special abilities[]

A lich lord has most of the usual undead immunities, specifically to critical hits, disease, level drain, ability drain, mind-affecting spells, paralysis, poison, and sneak attacks. However, this creature does not have the usual undead immunity to death magic. (Probably a bug.)

The attacks of a lich lord stun on-hit. In addition, this creature has use of a doom gaze three times per day.

A lich lord is a level 20 wizard with the following spells prepared.

Level 1 magic missile
Level 2 Balagarn's iron horn, Melf's acid arrow, stone bones
Level 3 dispel magic, fireball, lightning bolt, Mestil's acid breath, slow
Level 4 charm monster, contagion, Evard's black tentacles, fear, wall of fire
Level 5 ball lightning, dismissal, energy buffer, firebrand, hold monster
Level 6 acid fog, chain lightning, greater dispelling, greater spell breach, mass haste
Level 7 Bigby's grasping hand, delayed blast fireball, finger of death, power word, stun
Level 8 Bigby's clenched fist, incendiary cloud
Level 9 energy drain

Notes[]

  • This is one of the creatures that can be summoned with the summon greater undead feat. It improves upon the lich summons by having improved armor class (+1), hit points (+11), hit dice/caster level (+1, with a consequential +1 to will saves), and spell selection (Bigby's clenched fist and energy drain).