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      "attack_bonus": 12,
      "damage": [
        {
          "damage_dice": "3d6",
          "damage_type": {
            "index": "cold",
            "name": "Cold",
            "url": "/api/2014/damage-types/cold"
          }
        }
      ],
      "desc": "Melee Spell Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (3d6) cold damage. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.",
      "name": "Paralyzing Touch"
    }
  ],
  "alignment": "any evil alignment",
  "armor_class": [
    {
      "type": "natural",
      "value": 17
    }
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  "challenge_rating": 21,
  "charisma": 16,
  "condition_immunities": [
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      "index": "charmed",
      "name": "Charmed",
      "url": "/api/2014/conditions/charmed"
    },
    {
      "index": "exhaustion",
      "name": "Exhaustion",
      "url": "/api/2014/conditions/exhaustion"
    },
    {
      "index": "frightened",
      "name": "Frightened",
      "url": "/api/2014/conditions/frightened"
    },
    {
      "index": "paralyzed",
      "name": "Paralyzed",
      "url": "/api/2014/conditions/paralyzed"
    },
    {
      "index": "poisoned",
      "name": "Poisoned",
      "url": "/api/2014/conditions/poisoned"
    }
  ],
  "constitution": 16,
  "damage_immunities": [
    "poison",
    "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons"
  ],
  "damage_resistances": [
    "cold",
    "lightning",
    "necrotic"
  ],
  "damage_vulnerabilities": [],
  "dexterity": 16,
  "forms": [],
  "hit_dice": "18d8",
  "hit_points": 135,
  "hit_points_roll": "18d8+54",
  "image": "/api/images/monsters/lich.png",
  "index": "lich",
  "intelligence": 20,
  "languages": "Common plus up to five other languages",
  "legendary_actions": [
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "The lich casts a cantrip.",
      "name": "Cantrip"
    },
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "The lich uses its Paralyzing Touch.",
      "name": "Paralyzing Touch (Costs 2 Actions)"
    },
    {
      "damage": [],
      "dc": {
        "dc_type": {
          "index": "wis",
          "name": "WIS",
          "url": "/api/2014/ability-scores/wis"
        },
        "dc_value": 18,
        "success_type": "none"
      },
      "desc": "The lich fixes its gaze on one creature it can see within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 18 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.",
      "name": "Frightening Gaze (Costs 2 Actions)"
    },
    {
      "damage": [
        {
          "damage_dice": "6d6",
          "damage_type": {
            "index": "necrotic",
            "name": "Necrotic",
            "url": "/api/2014/damage-types/necrotic"
          }
        }
      ],
      "dc": {
        "dc_type": {
          "index": "con",
          "name": "CON",
          "url": "/api/2014/ability-scores/con"
        },
        "dc_value": 18,
        "success_type": "none"
      },
      "desc": "Each living creature within 20 feet of the lich must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 21 (6d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.",
      "name": "Disrupt Life (Costs 3 Actions)"
    }
  ],
  "name": "Lich",
  "proficiencies": [
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "saving-throw-con",
        "name": "Saving Throw: CON",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/saving-throw-con"
      },
      "value": 10
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "saving-throw-int",
        "name": "Saving Throw: INT",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/saving-throw-int"
      },
      "value": 12
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "saving-throw-wis",
        "name": "Saving Throw: WIS",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/saving-throw-wis"
      },
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "skill-arcana",
        "name": "Skill: Arcana",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/skill-arcana"
      },
      "value": 18
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "skill-history",
        "name": "Skill: History",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/skill-history"
      },
      "value": 12
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "skill-insight",
        "name": "Skill: Insight",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/skill-insight"
      },
      "value": 9
    },
    {
      "proficiency": {
        "index": "skill-perception",
        "name": "Skill: Perception",
        "url": "/api/2014/proficiencies/skill-perception"
      },
      "value": 9
    }
  ],
  "proficiency_bonus": 7,
  "reactions": [],
  "senses": {
    "passive_perception": 19,
    "truesight": "120 ft."
  },
  "size": "Medium",
  "special_abilities": [
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.",
      "name": "Legendary Resistance",
      "usage": {
        "rest_types": [],
        "times": 3,
        "type": "per day"
      }
    },
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "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.",
      "name": "Rejuvenation"
    },
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "The lich is an 18th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 20, +12 to hit with spell attacks). The lich has the following wizard spells prepared:\n\n- Cantrips (at will): mage hand, prestidigitation, ray of frost\n- 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, magic missile, shield, thunderwave\n- 2nd level (3 slots): acid arrow, detect thoughts, invisibility, mirror image\n- 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball\n- 4th level (3 slots): blight, dimension door\n- 5th level (3 slots): cloudkill, scrying\n- 6th level (1 slot): disintegrate, globe of invulnerability\n- 7th level (1 slot): finger of death, plane shift\n- 8th level (1 slot): dominate monster, power word stun\n- 9th level (1 slot): power word kill",
      "name": "Spellcasting",
      "spellcasting": {
        "ability": {
          "index": "int",
          "name": "INT",
          "url": "/api/2014/ability-scores/int"
        },
        "components_required": [
          "V",
          "S",
          "M"
        ],
        "dc": 20,
        "level": 18,
        "modifier": 12,
        "school": "wizard",
        "slots": {
          "1": 4,
          "2": 3,
          "3": 3,
          "4": 3,
          "5": 3,
          "6": 1,
          "7": 1,
          "8": 1,
          "9": 1
        },
        "spells": [
          {
            "level": 0,
            "name": "Mage Hand",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/mage-hand"
          },
          {
            "level": 0,
            "name": "Prestidigitation",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/prestidigitation"
          },
          {
            "level": 0,
            "name": "Ray of Frost",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/ray-of-frost"
          },
          {
            "level": 1,
            "name": "Detect Magic",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/detect-magic"
          },
          {
            "level": 1,
            "name": "Magic Missile",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/magic-missile"
          },
          {
            "level": 1,
            "name": "Shield",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/shield"
          },
          {
            "level": 1,
            "name": "Thunderwave",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/thunderwave"
          },
          {
            "level": 2,
            "name": "Acid Arrow",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/acid-arrow"
          },
          {
            "level": 2,
            "name": "Detect Thoughts",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/detect-thoughts"
          },
          {
            "level": 2,
            "name": "Invisibility",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/invisibility"
          },
          {
            "level": 2,
            "name": "Mirror Image",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/mirror-image"
          },
          {
            "level": 3,
            "name": "Animate Dead",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/animate-dead"
          },
          {
            "level": 3,
            "name": "Counterspell",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/counterspell"
          },
          {
            "level": 3,
            "name": "Dispel Magic",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/dispel-magic"
          },
          {
            "level": 3,
            "name": "Fireball",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/fireball"
          },
          {
            "level": 4,
            "name": "Blight",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/blight"
          },
          {
            "level": 4,
            "name": "Dimension Door",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/dimension-door"
          },
          {
            "level": 5,
            "name": "Cloudkill",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/cloudkill"
          },
          {
            "level": 5,
            "name": "Scrying",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/scrying"
          },
          {
            "level": 6,
            "name": "Disintegrate",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/disintegrate"
          },
          {
            "level": 6,
            "name": "Globe of Invulnerability",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/globe-of-invulnerability"
          },
          {
            "level": 7,
            "name": "Finger of Death",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/finger-of-death"
          },
          {
            "level": 7,
            "name": "Plane Shift",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/plane-shift"
          },
          {
            "level": 8,
            "name": "Dominate Monster",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/dominate-monster"
          },
          {
            "level": 8,
            "name": "Power Word Stun",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/power-word-stun"
          },
          {
            "level": 9,
            "name": "Power Word Kill",
            "url": "/api/2014/spells/power-word-kill"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "damage": [],
      "desc": "The lich has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.",
      "name": "Turn Resistance"
    }
  ],
  "speed": {
    "walk": "30 ft."
  },
  "strength": 11,
  "type": "undead",
  "updated_at": "2026-04-01T20:35:38.254Z",
  "url": "/api/2014/monsters/lich",
  "wisdom": 14,
  "xp": 33000
}