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<blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1807244" data-attributes="member: 14403"><p>That's what I meant... sorry, I still catch myself reverting to 2E terminology. Anyway, seeing how Grappling has become the end-all be-all way of getting rid of spell casters I can't see how some high level wizard wouldn't have a Ring of Freedom of Movement created for him/her. When I play arcane spellcasters it is downright necessary and I aquire one ASAP. Anyway, what about the Lich casting Gaseous Form with the Still Spell feat? If I remember right Liches are immune to cold attacks... multiple stillspell cones of cold and ice storms cast at point blank range could come in handy. Then again, I may be still thinking of 2E so please forgive me if they aren't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Personally I agree with the Van Rickten's Guide to Liches (yes, I know it is a 2e resource) that Liches should have spells that the PC's have never seen before... they've been hidden away researching magic so why shouldn't they. If I had a group that was so cocky about their ability to grapple said Lich I'd just make sure there was some nice and nasty new spell. Something dealing with acid would be nice or a cloud of hallucinogenic gas (geared against High Fort save classes) that followed the lich around (they don't have to breath) would be effective too. Yes, some would call it cheating. I call it being realistic. A Lich researching spells for centuries is only going to research the spells in the PHB? Nonsense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calico_Jack73, post: 1807244, member: 14403"] That's what I meant... sorry, I still catch myself reverting to 2E terminology. Anyway, seeing how Grappling has become the end-all be-all way of getting rid of spell casters I can't see how some high level wizard wouldn't have a Ring of Freedom of Movement created for him/her. When I play arcane spellcasters it is downright necessary and I aquire one ASAP. Anyway, what about the Lich casting Gaseous Form with the Still Spell feat? If I remember right Liches are immune to cold attacks... multiple stillspell cones of cold and ice storms cast at point blank range could come in handy. Then again, I may be still thinking of 2E so please forgive me if they aren't. :) Personally I agree with the Van Rickten's Guide to Liches (yes, I know it is a 2e resource) that Liches should have spells that the PC's have never seen before... they've been hidden away researching magic so why shouldn't they. If I had a group that was so cocky about their ability to grapple said Lich I'd just make sure there was some nice and nasty new spell. Something dealing with acid would be nice or a cloud of hallucinogenic gas (geared against High Fort save classes) that followed the lich around (they don't have to breath) would be effective too. Yes, some would call it cheating. I call it being realistic. A Lich researching spells for centuries is only going to research the spells in the PHB? Nonsense. ;) [/QUOTE]
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