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.