Talk:Lich

I think all Liches could be on a same page, as they share most of their properties with themselves. I'd love to read about tactics against liches as well. Progo 10:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Huh?

A lich:

   * does not breathe.
   * has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso.
   * can regenerate hit points.
   * is poisonous to eat.
   * is undead.
   * always starts as hostile.
   * can pick up magical items.
   * has infravision.
   * never leaves a corpse. 

How can both be true?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.181.14.252 (talk • contribs)

You don't have to kill something to eat it, if you're, say, a purple worm.--Ray Chason 18:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

How not to kill a lich

Don't wield a 'trice corpse if you don't have magic resistance. A gnome on level 8 of the Gnomish Mines deliberately jumped on to a polymorph trap, turned into a lich and destroyed my gloves. Not nice...

Confusion?

In a little wizard mode testing, I #polyself'ed in to an arch-lich to do some scroll of gold detection testing while confused. I noticed that I could move in any direction without the normal confused randomisation. I was level 25 at the time, but moved hundreds of squares without randomisation. Is this a symptom of Wizard mode, the monster itself, my high level, was I just lucky or something else entirely? -- Kalon 05:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Random Lich Pet

Has this come up for anyone before?

I was wandering through the dungeon digging up walls with a pickaxe when I looked and there was a Master Lich following me...as a pet. I thought it may have been my kitten morphed, but kitten appeared a few turns later.

Is it possible a lich might just randomly take a liking to a character?

I bet you stepped on a magic trap and got the "charm monster" effect. I once tamed the Titan on the Medusa level that way. He killed an aligned priest at a temple I was frequenting (bad Titan! no biscuit), then ate a chameleon corpse and followed me around for a while as "George the invisible flying shark" before he finally contrived to get himself killed. It was a weird game.--65.81.9.240 03:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure the lich wasn't a shape changer? -Tjr 12:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

No, he was a Master Lich until he grew up. I can't remember how we died there...The trap sounds plausible, though I can't remember it. It was kinda weird, though.

• i had my large dog turn up as idefix the invisible level 37 lich. whether it jumped into a polytrap or ate a shapeshifter i will never know. it's sort of cool to have around, as long as i remember not to hang around too long in temples. two annoyances, though. firstly, it'll never teleport between me and the nasties, so i'm not protected in the way i would be by a gray dragon, say. how do i keep it by me without a magic whistle? nextly it doesn't seem to want to put on better armour. Ac -14 is pretty good, but i have a spare +1 gdsm i want it to wear but it just won't. what can a boy do? --86.144.114.167 22:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't believe liches normally wear any armor. They can, but don't. Liches will start teleporting next to you once they grow up and become master liches, and then become arch liches. Most players consider it to be an annoyance, however. A lich is definitely more useful as a pet than a dog, but they're completely useless against cold resistant monsters. They also like to teleport away to heal, rather than stick around and help you out. -- Qazmlpok 22:54, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Best time to Genocide L

Is there a most opportune time to genocide the lich class? E.g. a level where a large number of liches are generated?

Examples from elsewhere- saving a ; genocide for the Plane of Water leaves a very quiet level.

Seems like a good idea. Personally, I genocide when I recognize I can't handle the guy normally. --Tjr 22:01, 1 December 2010 (UTC)