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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 6846713" data-attributes="member: 1288">This is exactly the problem: the fact that TSR and WotC have portrayed liches in such a way that this is a legitimate question to ask.A well-written lich should absolutely not be all that similar to a living mage, however power-hungry and reclusive. Liches are not human. They are not living. They don't feel as humans do, don't want as humans do, don't--after a brief adjustment period--think as humans do. They are dead, obsessive things, and their personalities and behaviors should reflect that. Any human behaviors/attitudes a lich displays should be, at best, a mask they deliberately put on. They should, in many ways, be nearly as alien in their thinking as creatures out of Lovecraft, their only humanity a half-forgotten memory.This is, in part, why there's never been an iconic lich, AFAIAC.</blockquote>