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Szass is a lich, an undead necromancer. He is the leader and most powerful of the Red Wizards of Thay, a group consisting of eight wizards with the title of zulkir who are the rulers of the country Thay. Many of the creatures that serve Szass Tam are undead.
A lich appears in Judges Guild publications The Book of Ruins page 20, The Final Refuge of Allmark. A lich is also the fate of one of the wizards among other forms of undead in Judges Guild module Citadel of Fire. The Lich King is an Icon (a powerful NPC archetype) in 13th Age. [41]
A lich's most often depicted distinguishing feature from other undead in fantasy fiction is the method of achieving immortality; liches give up their souls to form "soul-artifacts" (called a "soul gem" or "phylactery" in other fantasy works), the source of their magic and immortality. Many liches take precautions to hide and/or safeguard one or ...
Vecna was #4 on CBR's 2020 "10 Unique (& Powerful) Villains To Spice Up A High Level Dungeons & Dragons Campaign" list — the article states that "Once a humble necromancer, he rose all the way to becoming a lich and finally a god through an act of ascension. Resplendent with evil this figure is a god whose domain encompasses the undead and ...
Originally a powerful lich, he has (unbeknownst to the players) become a demi-lich, a more powerful form of undead that has transcended the need for any physical body apart from its skull. Player characters must survive the deadly traps in the tomb and fight their way into the demi-lich's elaborately concealed inner sanctum to destroy him.
Damage-dealing powers in 3.5 do not scale with the user's level as spells do, and must be augmented to the maximum in order to match the power of an equivalent-level spellcaster; however, many powers compensate for this loss of efficiency with added versatility, such as energy ray allowing the user to switch between four elements with different ...
The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014. [ 13 ] In 2004, D&D remained the best-known, [ 18 ] and best-selling, [ 19 ] role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide. [ 3 ]
[62] Screen Rant compiled a list of the game's "10 Most Powerful (And 10 Weakest) Monsters, Ranked" in 2018, calling the elder brain one of the strongest, saying that while the 5th "edition of Dungeons & Dragons has toned down the elder brain a lot", it "still represents a grave threat to most adventuring parties, thanks to its range of ...