Homebrew Lich Species Details
Liches, masters of darkness, dark magic and undead. Rulers of life and death. Seen as the enders of nations and consumers of infinite souls. You by nature are seen as a evil being and untrusted by all.
You have lost your horde to time, your servants have faded to dust or been slain. Your creation may have been of your own will or another's. The result is you are here, thanks to your crafty planning you hid your chosen phylactery. You have risen from the ashes once more to re-forge your power base.
Weather you became a lich for good reasons or not, you are one now. It is up to you to decide what you want to do with your un-life now.
Lich Traits
Liches are bound to their phylactery, if yours is destroied then you wont have any second chances anymore.Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.
Age
Liches do not age.
Alignment
Liches are almost always innately evil. It is just hard to be good wile cheating death.
Size
Liches are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Lich Sight
Your undead magical rebirth has affected your body in such a way that you can see the true nature of things. You have true sight out to 120 ft.
Lich's Mantel
You have immunity to Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Poisoned conditions and ability to cast alter self at will, doing so acts similar to polymorph but without changing your stats, just appearing as a humanoid of your race.
Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10 days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Soul Eater: Sense you are a lich, you do not need food, water or sleep. But you must spend four hours a day in a light trance that acts like a long rest. Your sight still functions wile in a trance. In replace of food, you eat souls. You must feed on one soul of the fallen a month or you'll start to starve, wither, and eventually die. You store the souls of those you kill in your phylactery and can eat them at will, these souls weigh nothing and can be used to replace material and gold components for spells or crafting magical items. 1 soul equals 3,000gp or 1 soul coin.
Undead body: You may not care about your new form, but others will. As a result you have ingrained alter self upon yourself. Giving you the ability to hide your undead body from the weak masses that rightly fear you for one reason or another. Mindless undead will pay no heed to you and ignore you unless attacked. Your natural AC gains a +7.
Turn Resistance. The lich has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. (unlocked at 16th level)
The lich can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The lich regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Cantrip. The lich casts a cantrip.
Paralyzing Touch (Costs 2 Actions). The lich uses its Paralyzing Touch. (unlocked at 4th level)
Frightening Gaze (Costs 2 Actions). The lich fixes its gaze on one creature it can see within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened for 1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to the lich's gaze for the next 24 hours. (unlocked at level 8)
Disrupt Life (Costs 3 Actions). Each non-undead creature within 20 feet of the lich must make a Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 21 (6d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. (unlocked at level 16)
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common, infernal, and 5 other languages of your choice.
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