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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 8565582" data-attributes="member: 23484">It's good that they have motivations for what they are doing, and I think there are still a number of options open to them:1. They retreat, and learn a lesson. Their town and perhaps their barony is destroyed by the Lich, who is singing their names as the reason for his actions. They have survivor's guilt and a reason to exact revenge later in the campaign. Their actions are on them, and they will be constantly reminded of their failure.2. They retreat, and the town is destroyed. Refugees flee to their barony, and they live with the consequences of the survivors furious with them for having angered the lich.3. One of the spellcasters with Arcana struggles to control the Sphere. (Have they done this?) A sphere is powerful but it takes time to work and devastate a town. What will the lich do if it loses control? What wil they do with it if they get control? a. Even if that spellcaster fails, it's a heroic death for one player and the lich can leave satisfied; TPK avoided and surviving players learn a lesson and can memorialize or avenge their friend as they choose. b. Maybe the Lich is going to return every year on the anniversary of this battle, or on every full moon. For ever. (Maybe it's already doing so in other towns, and has been for years. That way it might be possible to plot its actions and ambush it elsewhere!).4. Do any of them have a bag of holding or a haversack? Even if they don't a villager might have one, inherited fro his grandmother from her adventuring days and now used to keep apples fresh; they can give it to the characters. Have that person save the town by bagging the sphere. There is then an explosion. You can roll the effect, or just decide what happens. a.  Maybe the player dies, but the town is saved and renamed in their honour. See 3.a. but lich leaves unsatisfied.b. Maybe the whole group is sent to the astral plane. How do they get back?c. Maybe the whole group AND THE LICH is sent to the astral plane together (or some other plane... wherever). Now they have to work together to get back!I get that you see this is an imbalanced encounter, but there seem to be so many ways this could be resolved without a TPK. It doesn't need to be all about a single slugfest. This lich has been around forever. Make sure he stays there.</blockquote>

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