Undead Specification

Liches

lich

Corporeal Undead

Undead Level ("UL"):

If created: Base Level of creator +4 (Lich Spell may only be Cast on self)

(The Base Level of a Target body is its Level when it died.  If Undead with souls (such as Liches) are created from the bodies of multi-class adventurers, their Base Level is the square root of the sum of the squares of all their Levels that count towards Saving Level.)

If encountered, typically 12 to 20

Typical Number Encountered: 1

Alignment: E/L

Description: a very old, cadaverous Magic-User

Habitat: cities, isolated towers, Dreamlands, Realm of Madness: will not go out in LI >2

Language: as per creator

Chars: all as per creator

Movement: as per creator

Fighter Abilities:

UL/3, FRU AMR    D = 25 + (5UL) %    RD = 5 + (5UL) %    5UL HP

Attack Modes:

Claw @ A = 8UL %, DAM = d6 + 1d6 Disembowelling (will usually go for the Chest, and attempt to rip out the opponent's heart, succeeding on doing >= 5 Dis DAM on a point 1/3 way down the Chest)

Weapon: as per Ft abilities of creator

Shields: as per Ft abilities of creator

HitLoc Table:

As per creator: use 1 to 100 for Undead People.

ADS: 1 all over, but may wear Armour

Invulnerability 3: invulnerable to non-magical and silver attacks, vulnerable to magical attacks, other beings with Invulnerability 3 are vulnerable to it.  For further details see the Notes to the Elementalist Invulnerability Spell.

Effects of Damage:

100% General Damage kills, cannot go unconscious.

Hit Loc Area

%age HP Damage taken

Effects

Head

 

 15% no effect
30% Decapitation, carries on fighting *

Arms (each)

 

 

 20% no effect
40% Arm Crippled
60% Arm Severed

Chest

 

 80% no effect
160% cut in two, pieces carry on fighting *

Abdomen

 

 60% no effect
120% cut in two, pieces carry on fighting *

Legs (each)

 

 

 25% no effect
50% Leg Crippled, falls over
75% Leg Severed

* two such results kill it

Thievish Abilities: as per Th abilities of creator

Other Abilities / Powers / Notes:

  1. Liches are typically former high-level SOROK Clerics, who have Cast the Lich Spell on themselves to become Undead, and so achieve a kind of immortality.  The Actions for the Lich Spell are committing suicide.
  2. Unlike Zombies or Ghouls, their bodies do not decay, but neither do they heal naturally.  They may recover Damage by Magic Spells and effects, but not by Enchanter Spells.
  3. Liches have the Magic-Using abilities they had when alive (at their full original Levels), but only Roll 1d6 on Charmer, Enchanter, Illusionist or Druidic Spells, as the Spirits of Life detest them.  They do not gain Experience or pluses, but retain those they had when they died.
  4. See the General Notes on the Undead.
  5. Liches retain the Senses (and NVR) of their bodies.  They have Detect Life as an innate ability (so Thievish hiding is useless against them).
  6. Undead hunger after life, and will attack living things, preferring those closest to their own species before being made Undead, and those with the highest At.
  7. They avoid Light (especially of LI >2), but are not stopped by it.
  8. Resistant to Nightmare and Madness.

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