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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 7540498" data-attributes="member: 82779">I've had that happen a few times.  It's sort of part of the learning curve of making encounters with different editions (and different RPGs).One time I handled it by having the corpse of the big bad transform into a dead changeling, making the players question whether they'd killed the actual big bad or just a minion posing as him.  That gave me time to make a new big bad encounter using what I'd learned about encounter design from the previous failure.Another time I posthumously demoted the big bad, revealing a little while after his death that he had actually been working for someone even bigger and badder than he was.I've also had a big bad raised from the dead.  In one case it was literally a resurrection spell, while in a couple other cases the big bad came back as an undead creature (one was a vampire, and one was a ghost).In the case of a wizard big bad, saying the slain foe was a magical clone of the wizard gave me the ability to have the big bad learn how the party fights and plan accordingly for the next encounter.I will also add that in the case of a lich, as long as the party doesn't find the lich's phylactery and spellbook, there's always a way for it to reform and come back with new tricks to avenge itself upon the party.  The whole not staying dead thing is kind of one of the major perks of lichdom.</blockquote>