Random Encounter ... 5 Liches!
Hello!
At first I thought they were skeleton warrios, but they apparently are wearing robes. For a moment I thought fighting 5 liches might be interesting challenge, though I then noticed they´re all wielding mundane looking clubs!
The image seems to be from EotB 3.
Please post if you have an explanation for the clubs, or any idea how tough fighting 5 liches would be!
More images of liches welcome, as well!
At first I thought they were skeleton warrios, but they apparently are wearing robes. For a moment I thought fighting 5 liches might be interesting challenge, though I then noticed they´re all wielding mundane looking clubs!
The image seems to be from EotB 3.
Please post if you have an explanation for the clubs, or any idea how tough fighting 5 liches would be!
More images of liches welcome, as well!
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how I picture them is: kangaxx is the main chum in front with the heavier armor, buddy in the blue robe would be the shade lich, homes that is sporting the more pink attire would be the elemental lich, and the two guys in the back would be the typical lich, quite the formidable team indeed, perhaps this could even be a picture of kangaxx about to take over the world with his undead army ( granted by the chap in the background on the right hand side) with his generals at his side - but then he loses the battle and the two generic liches fall also, and the shade lich and elemental lich are the only ones that survive, so to save kangaxx, they take his bones, and hold on to them to see if they can make him whole again - but in the middle of that quest the elemental lich and shade lich get captured and are imprisoned in their own tombs for the rest of eternity with the golden bones still on their bodies, waiting to be released so kangaxx can rise again...
And while he is a Death Knight himself, his followers are only Skeletal Warriors and Banshees. With the exception of the goldbox game, Death Knights are too unique to serve as minions.
Here is a classical image of him:
http://dragonlance.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Soth
The clubs are indeed odd, especially considering the forwardmost one has two other weapons. He's the only one who seem to be carrying additional weaponry though, so maybe he has the highest rank?
Also, we don't see how long the others' clubs are, so maybe they are actually staves. Plain wooden staves for such royal folks is still odd, but slightly less than clubs. Clubs are for druids and druidic liches aren't exactly common. Maybe the club guy was denied a real staff when he decided to keep bladed weapons (blades are for warriors after all, and warriors are chumps. This guy is making a fool of himself).
Also, they're actually 6: their Band Manager is hiding on the very right of the picture behind the wall.
And from a BG-powergamer's point of view, 5 Liches together isn't that hard if you really cheese on them but it won't be an easy fight (mostly because Liches are fair to fight, not like Demiliches, which 1 is already a nightmare).
Demiliches are also easy if have some sort of protection against Imprisonment.
Also, you should realise that most AD&D illustrations made the mosters look way more threatening than the adventurers they were supposed to fight.
The battle might be a challenge, though, as I remember singular liches being somewhat troublesome in old SoA. What I find still kinda bit amiss that their weapons of choices are either clubs or some half-quarterstaves.
Don't ask why ...
Have 5 mages in the party who will deliberate 4 liches with Otiluke's Resilient Spheres. The fifth one is left for the mage and 6th character to deal with.
Someone who is very skilled with lich battles do tell if this is valid strategy in practice.
Also, what are other useful spells for deliberating liches?
Edit:
@Anduin might consider a music superstar career with'em. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY
Also... The staves appear short due to perspective OR due to continuous walking over the millennia causing considerable wear...
Plus... I think we could be the next big death metal band. We could call ourselves... Bone Maiden? Swords n Roses? Sleepnot? Thinner Lizzy? Creamed? Born in the stone age? Unanna? Green and moldy day? Dead Zeppelin? Colder play? Dead Punk? Dead Floyd? Fleetwood Buried?
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Twisted_Rune EotB3 had a plot?