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 | |
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).