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[-] Currens_felis@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Still better to pickpocket and not drink it

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When your dex is more than double your wis

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

DND Noob here.

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

[-] hazardous_area@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months 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.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months 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.

[-] Vulpes_Corsac@ttrpg.network 5 points 11 months 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).

[-] punkcoder@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

career limiting decisions...

[-] Loki7777@ttrpg.network 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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.

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