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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6570587" data-attributes="member: 4937">Interesting.  "Does this mean that a lich requires a soul every 24 hours to preserve its state of lichdom or it is destroyed?"No.  Because the game isn't focused on being a lich and doing your best to supply yourself with a steady supply of souls to consume without attracting enough attention that a legion of Paladins comes down on your head, they are clearly leaving it up to the DM to the interpret this flavor as they wish and make it relevant mechanically only as they feel it would be interesting for the scenario. My impression is that liches are rarely disturbed and equally don't go out of their way to leave themselves a mechanism for feeding.  This implies:1) It may be that many would be liches aren't even aware of this part of the bargain.2) Even if they are, their dietary needs are generally quite low.  I'd guess consuming their HD in souls per 100 years likely keeps them from falling apart, though in my game I've always assumed that they grow increasingly torpid over time.  If it requires less power, it's hard to explain why any would ever fall apart.   If it required much more power, liches would have to behave very differently.  This flavor would explain the reason for the 'malnutrition', and the torpor the cause of the eventual 'starvation'.</blockquote>