![]() Even if they can research a Protection from Sunlight spell, it can be dispelled or turned off in an Anti-Magic Field. Can die if submerged into running water. Making you a mindless pet of the other vampire. ![]() ![]() If you are turned into a vampire, you become a vampire spawn first. They also need to feed on blood, which means contact with people, which means adventurers They need to rest in a coffin and/or on the ground they were buried (could be inside the coffin). They can die with a simple stake to the heart (and then decapitated) They cannot enter places without invitation If decapitated, they can die permanently. He's obsessed with having multiple bodies as backups instead of going into lichdom. Manshoon eventually becomes a vampire by the way. Haven't had enough experience with those. Keep in mind I mostly play Pathfinder so I might be wrong if they are different in 3.5 and stuff. Natural armor bonus (+5) and Damage Reduction that's only bypassed by magical bludgeoning attacks. They gain a touch attack that can be used to heal them self infinitely or touch an enemy to harm them and possibly paralyze them. Well, if my knowledge is correct in 3.5/Pathfinder at least Liches gain bonuses (+2) to Wis, Int, and Cha as well as perception and stealth bonuses. Don't recall vampires, even lords, having that benefit.Īlso, what exactly happens to a D&D vampire if they don't drink enough blood? Die? Hibernate? Go insane? I'm not too well-versed in D&D mechanics, but doesn't lichdom also confer beneficial effects outside of those gained by undead in general? Not to mention that there's also the whole demilich thing to look forward to, which afaik makes you immune to nearly all spells. Vampires are lame/boring and Liches are REALLY FREAKING COOL! Stops your body from rotting so you always look fresh.Īs for other ways of reaching immortality I'm not really sure. Btw, I'm not sure why more liches don't do the entire /cast Gentle Repose thing each day. I'd rather not go around drinking people's blood. I also dislike Vampires because of the entire "I need blood to survive" thing. He was the bestest little gnome guy!Īnyway, he eventually was overcome by the endless swarms and the party was like NOOOO HE'S DEAD.ġd10 days later I was like HEY GUYS HOW'S IT GOIN'!? and the party was super baffled that I survived. My Dirge Bard (of whom had a permanent Gentle Repose effect on him) made this heroic scene where he had the rest of the party leave as he fought off all the undead with his rapier and spells. There was this great scene where one person had to stay behind for the rest of the party to escape these dead space-like monolith things that were animating dead in the area. ![]() He was using Libris Mortis's variant rules for good liches and he was in service to the Goddess Desna to forever seek knowledge. ![]() I had a Lich Dirge Bard in a Pathfinder game once. I personally play Liches when I can in PnP on my necromancers because I think the idea of having an expandable body is really rad. Well, on a scale of 1 to 10 vampire falls at LAME (1) and Lich is at OH DAMN THAT'S COOL (10). Maybe binding an extremely powerful demon and forcing it to grant your wish?Īre there any other, less rotting corspey options for mages seeking to live/unlive for ever? Would capturing a genie and wishing for immortality work? Yes vamps have that annoying weakness to sunlight, but surely a powerful mage could find a way to counter that, also the hunger factor, but eating a few unwary travelers or an adventurer now and then shouldn't be a problem for a mage willing to become undead in the quest of eternal life/unlife. By all accounts vampires lords are extremely strong creatures, I doubt they would lose any of the spell casting power they had before, they would still gain the benefit of eternal unlife and would have have the bonus of not being a gross corpse looking thing that is falling to bits. Larloch, Szass Tam both creepy undead things, falling to bits, why is lich the go to option? If you don't mind being undead, why not just get bitten by a vampire. All the main evil mages turn lich and I wanna know why this is? ![]()
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