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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6927839" data-attributes="member: 6776887">The level 19 party at my table picked a fight with a lich last Wednesday. They probably didn't want to, but the fighter was under the effect of dominate monster from a bard that had been the recipient of the lich's unwanted advances and wanted him killed. The lich could not understand why the lillend did not accept his offer of being reformed into a different kind of creature... The bard lillend instructed the fighter through the song to influence the party to kill the lich.So after being invited inside his keep, the special hydras kept at bay, the dominated fighter walked up to the lich and said, "Thank you for inviting us in. We have so much to talk about with retrieving the lillend for you, but right now I would like to introduce you to my SWORD!" (player's idea, not mine), and she slashed through the illusion of the lich. The lich sighed, cast cloudkill on the yard while inside his keep, and had the hydras attack those outside the cloudkill. As the fighter fought her way inside, he released a protoplasmic ooze from a forcecage in his lab that turned into an even bigger hydra (double hit points, +16 to hit, extra dice of damage per hit, 50 damage in a turn to lose a head). First the fighter fell. She was doing well until the lich ducked behind the mega hydra. The party had already had some decent battles that day. The monk and cleric stormed into the lab after defeating the hydras in the courtyard. The monk was already beaten up a bit, and the lich cast power word: kill. The cleric stormed forward and fought the lich toe to toe, but the lich eventually connected with his paralyzing touch. The cleric fell, and the lich finished her off.At this point, the lich was maddened that he had lost his mega hydra (which was actually going to transported into the lillend via a modified gate spell, turning her into one of his creations) and the fighter, the first of his kills (who had been dimension doored to the courtyard by the wizard. In his maddened state, he fought to the death. The wizard and sorcerer were on fumes, but the managed to finish the lich off. The wizard crushed his transmutation stone over the cleric, and she came back to life and cast revivify on the fighter and monk.So, yeah, liches, are tough. This was not his main home, but he still had some power to bring to bear, and the lair actions definitely kept him from some damage.</blockquote>

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