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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 4549260" data-attributes="member: 40109">IMO, the key to answering your question is the word "destroy." Disrupting weapons can "destroy" undead creatures.  An undead creature is usually "destroyed" when it is reduced to 0 hit points or less. Vampires, however, are a specific exception.  The rules state that: "Reducing a vampire's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it but doesn't always destroy it..." (emphasis added).  Since the vampire rules draw an obvious distinction between simply being reduced to 0 hit points and being destroyed, and the disrupting weapon specifically destroys undead creatures, I'd say a vampire that fails its save against a disrupting weapon is truly, permanently destroyed. The lich is a different matter, though.  The lich rules don't talk about whether the lich is "destroyed" or not; they simply state that unless the lich's phylactery is destroyed, the lich reappears 1d10 days after its "apparent death."  Since destroying a lich with a disrupting weapon doesn't do anything to its phylactery, I'd say the lich reappears 1d10 days later.</blockquote>