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SixOfSpades · 03-05-2003, 04:48 PM

Liches can actually be quite easy, if you know what you're doing, because they are Undead, and the game throws bucketloads of anti-Undead stuff at you.

Annatar is quite right--not only are Liches naturally immune to Normal weaponry, but they love to cast Protection from Magic Weapons as well, meaning that for the next 4 rounds, NO weapon can touch them. (Although, IIRC, the Lich in the Crooked Crane only casts Mantle.) And Breach is a Level 5 spell--see next paragraph.

Liches are immune to all spells in Levels 1-5, including Priest spells, so even though Insect Plague is usually pure gold against spellcasters, it will have no effect whatsoever here. Dispel/Remove Magic, however, can work, because they're affecting the Lich's protection spells, not the Lich himself.

Expect every Lich you meet to have a TimeStop memorized.

Weapon effects (such as elemental damage on each hit) will pass right through Stoneskin.

[ 03-05-2003, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]

03-05-2003, 04:48 PM	#9
SixOfSpades Dracolisk Join Date: September 16, 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA, USA Age: 48 Posts: 6,901	Liches can actually be quite easy, if you know what you're doing, because they are Undead, and the game throws bucketloads of anti-Undead stuff at you. Annatar is quite right--not only are Liches naturally immune to Normal weaponry, but they love to cast Protection from Magic Weapons as well, meaning that for the next 4 rounds, NO weapon can touch them. (Although, IIRC, the Lich in the Crooked Crane only casts Mantle.) And Breach is a Level 5 spell--see next paragraph. Liches are immune to all spells in Levels 1-5, including Priest spells, so even though Insect Plague is usually pure gold against spellcasters, it will have no effect whatsoever here. Dispel/Remove Magic, however, can work, because they're affecting the Lich's protection spells, not the Lich himself. Expect every Lich you meet to have a TimeStop memorized. Weapon effects (such as elemental damage on each hit) will pass right through Stoneskin. [ 03-05-2003, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ] __________________ Volothamp's Comeuppance Everything you ever needed to know about the entire Baldur's Gate series......except spoilers.