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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8570419" data-attributes="member: 2209">I vaguely remember reading something like that in a 5e module and thinking it worked against the 5e MM lich descriptions, though it was in line with a bunch of past D&amp;D and FR lich portrayals.The 5e MM though is vague on how frequent the soul sacrificing must be and on how long it takes to fall apart if they are not met so there is wiggle room for a trapped lich who cannot access sacrifices or a demented one who forgets to do so.Soul Sacrifices. A lich must periodically feed souls to its phylactery to sustain the magic preserving its body and consciousness. It does this using the imprisonment spell. Instead of choosing one of the normal options of the spell, the lich uses the spell to magically trap the target's body and soul inside its phylactery. The phylactery must be on the same plane as the lich for the spell to work. A lich's phylactery can hold only one creature at a time, and a dispel magic cast as a 9th-level spell upon the phylactery releases any creature imprisoned within it. A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life.A lich that fails or forgets to maintain its body with sacrificed souls begins to physically fall apart, and might eventually become a demilich.&quot;Periodically&quot; and &quot;eventually&quot; leave a lot of ambiguity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8570419, member: 2209"] I vaguely remember reading something like that in a 5e module and thinking it worked against the 5e MM lich descriptions, though it was in line with a bunch of past D&D and FR lich portrayals. The 5e MM though is vague on how frequent the soul sacrificing must be and on how long it takes to fall apart if they are not met so there is wiggle room for a trapped lich who cannot access sacrifices or a demented one who forgets to do so. Soul Sacrifices. [B]A lich must periodically feed souls to its phylactery to sustain the magic preserving its body and consciousness.[/B] It does this using the imprisonment spell. Instead of choosing one of the normal options of the spell, the lich uses the spell to magically trap the target's body and soul inside its phylactery. The phylactery must be on the same plane as the lich for the spell to work. A lich's phylactery can hold only one creature at a time, and a dispel magic cast as a 9th-level spell upon the phylactery releases any creature imprisoned within it. A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life. [B]A lich that fails or forgets to maintain its body with sacrificed souls begins to physically fall apart, and might eventually become a demilich[/B]. "Periodically" and "eventually" leave a lot of ambiguity. [/QUOTE]

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