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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 3496418" data-attributes="member: 50987">I've heard of people using a wish or miracle to strip an undead monster of its undead status and restore it to life (sort of like what happened to Imhotep in "The Mummy.")  It's never come up in any of my games yet, but I'd probably handle it like Wolfwood suggests...a creature that is no longer undead is probably no longer evil.  This spell (or a wish used in this manner) would be a game-ender if the BBEG of the whole campaign is an undead monster.  After the "dear me, what have I done?" speech, you mop up the henchmen and go home.Liches and their ilk would be an exception...you have to be evil in order to make the phylactery, and you have to make the phylactery in order to become a lich...there are no "accidental liches."  So it is safe to assume that your typical ex-lich is every bit as insane and wicked as a bone-fide lich*, and will be quite upset at being "inconvenienced with mortality" once more.  The ex-lich would probably flee, build another phylactery, become a lich once more, and then exact revenge at a later date (probably 500 years later, on the descendants of the heroes who crossed him).*get it? Bone-fide?  BONE-a-fied?  nevermind...</blockquote>