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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3201415" data-attributes="member: 1465">Why can you scratch someone else's back but you cannot scratch your own?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> But then I don't know what I would rule in this case.The negative energy touch does not cost anything to the Lich, so it's not that threre is something necessarily transferring from the Lich to the target: if there was a flow of something, then he clearly couldn't heal himself this way, but there isn't.There are many ways to describe it. It could be that simply the damage to any living thing touching a lich is a bit like touching a flame (except that by the rules it's lich who needs to actively touch you, just touching him doesn't deal you damage). You get burned but the flame doesn't diminish (although technically it probably does, but at least the effect is negligible).If he can normally heal other undead, at the moment I would probably rule that he can heal himself too. It's like casting a spell (a Cleric can cast Cure Light Wounds on himself right?), so no problem.Maybe someone is scared that he can do this at will but then it's only a matter of balance, not of explanation! And even as a matter of balance I'm not too much concerned because 1d8+5 is the equivalent of Cure Light Wounds, and it will not be very useful once per round (although I'm not sure there is a restriction to this).Eventually this would be my only concern: how fast can the lich heal himself? If it's 1/round I'm ok with it, if he could technically heal 1/attack I'd be more concerned (but then maybe a lich won't likely have more than 2 attacks per round).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 3201415, member: 1465"] Why can you scratch someone else's back but you cannot scratch your own? :p But then I don't know what I would rule in this case. The negative energy touch does not cost anything to the Lich, so it's not that threre is something necessarily transferring from the Lich to the target: if there was a flow of something, then he clearly couldn't heal himself this way, but there isn't. There are many ways to describe it. It could be that simply the damage to any living thing touching a lich is a bit like touching a flame (except that by the rules it's lich who needs to actively touch you, just touching him doesn't deal you damage). You get burned but the flame doesn't diminish (although technically it probably does, but at least the effect is negligible). If he can normally heal other undead, at the moment I would probably rule that he can heal himself too. It's like casting a spell (a Cleric can cast Cure Light Wounds on himself right?), so no problem. Maybe someone is scared that he can do this [I]at will[/I] but then it's only a matter of balance, not of explanation! And even as a matter of balance I'm not too much concerned because 1d8+5 is the equivalent of Cure Light Wounds, and it will not be very useful once per round (although I'm not sure there is a restriction to this). Eventually this would be my only concern: how fast can the lich heal himself? If it's 1/round I'm ok with it, if he could technically heal 1/attack I'd be more concerned (but then maybe a lich won't likely have more than 2 attacks per round). [/QUOTE]

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