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Starting a 1st level you become an undead who uses an unfinished phylactery, with the following advantages and disadvantages Greater Phylactery Paralyzing Touch, Soul ReaperĪbility Score Improvement, Master Resistance Spellcasting, Phylactery, Drain Touch, Archetype Bonus ( a) Leather Armor or ( b) 15 gp's worth of unholy relics.( a) A short sword or ( b) A light crossbow or ( c) A quarterstaff.( a) scholar's pack or ( b) diplomat's pack.You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background: Skills: Choose any three from Arcana, Deception, Investigation, History, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, or Religion Equipment Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier per Lich level after 1st Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + Constitution modifier

Second, choose the Hermit background.Īs a Lich you gain the following class features. If you plan on being a Death Knight, Strength should be your highest stat, followed by Constitution or Intelligence. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution if you plan on being a Dark Mage. You can make a Lich quickly by following these suggestions.

You want to die and be brought back to life enough times it becomes a running joke.You want to explore morality and make a character who might be good but selfish, or a character who suffers from a tramautic experience and still holds fresh scars.You want to be a morally ambiguous trickster and deciever.

You want to be a nightmare on the battlefield that feels supernatural in a way a warrior does not.

Add on to the fact that they can only easily sustain themselves through grisly means and it becomes quite hard for them to earn trust. It takes a good number of great deeds to be able to walk around a town without inducing fear and suspicion amongst those who once considered them kin. That said, being a lich is not all fun and games. Even as a dedicated spellcaster, a lich can be surprisingly hard to kill! Either way, they take advantage of their resilience as they do not have to fear the consequences of hitting 0 HP, as well as their ability to drain life from the living. A lich can choose to branch out, focusing on spellcasting, fighting, or simply being an artist. Those who become a lich unwittingly may find themselves missing their humanity, but now they have new tools at their disposal to make the most of their situation.

An ancient and once great evil lich, brought back after being sealed away from a long time and willing to turn over a new leaf.

Transformed into a lich by a cursed artifact.

Created as a byproduct of a flawed human sacrifice, or a backlash from wild necromantic magic.

Dying in a haunted land where most are brought back as zombies and skeletons.

Succumbing to your fear of death and seeking immortality at any cost.

Turned into a lich to serve a greater purpose, willingly or unwillingly.

Ways a person could become a lich, or a lesser lich, which don't necessitate being evil: These liches have phylacteries that are simply random objects that were near their bodies when they died, and they can be created in a wide variety of ways. However, there are many ways a "lesser lich" can be created.

A properly created Lich will always have a powered phylactery that sustains the Lich and reconstructs their body when they die, and the proper method for creating a lich is a closely guarded secret. It truly doesn't matter how you became a lich, what matters is what you choose to do now. In order to be a lich, you cannot be a race that is a construct or undead by default.