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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1805312" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, at least he's a lich, so if they didn't get his phylactery he can learn a way to outwit them, and come back to trounce them later.Antimagic field seems a popular trick against liches.  Try putting the party in a situation where magic is necessary to stay alive.  The lich may have laired in an area so full of negative energy that without the proper spells to protect them, the party will die quickly.  A lich can survive freezing cold, complete vacuum, flooded areas.  If you were evil and you thought people might come and thump you, you'd probably have defenses that play to your strengths.Wall of Force exists even in an antimagic field, sadly.  Otherwise it'd be fun to have a lair that's built over a 200-ft. pit full of spikes, with a magical floor.  If you cast antimagic field, you plummet to your deaths, while I regenerate.Contingency can, if you interpret the rules right, give you an easy out.  A lich would almost certainly identify an antimagic field as it's being cast, and I'd rule that you can say things as a reaction.  So have contingency: "If I say, 'avast,' cast wall of force in a sphere around me."  The lich sees you casting a spell he doesn't want to deal with, he says 'avast,' and pretty much nothing's getting through.</blockquote>