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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The rouge was probably going to die anyway, and now the lich can’t use that potion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Still better to pickpocket and not drink it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The rouge was probably going to die anyway,

I think we ended up killing two rogues the last game I played. Well, we killed one and sort of made no effort to save the other.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When your dex is more than double your wis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

DND Noob here.

Can liches use health potions? Thats not how they recover hp right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Typically they heal from necrotic energy instead of positive like living things. So a healing potion for a lich is effectively a vial of pain juice for something living.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Liches are undead, so that potion would probably rejuvenate necrotic flesh or it's a strong poison to create more necrotic flesh. Both are not something supportive of living like a health potion would be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Technically in 5e, there's no reason they can't. Undead can benefit from potions just the same as anyone else. And given they have to make a potion to transform into a lich in the first place, I'd say they probably are skilled alchemists, so it'd not be out of line to say they make some.

Previous editions probably had other rules against it though, and it wouldn't work for pathfinder I believe, as most healing potions have a positive energy trait (which harms undead rather than heals).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

career limiting decisions...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liches are specifically immune to potion effects, bad or good. At least in lore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True. However, a lich's "healing potion" would likely be a potion of Cause Critical Wounds, not healing. Whether or not it would be visibly similar to the Heal version would be up to the DM, I suppose. I don't remember reading any specifics of that in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.