The Lich's Legendary Action 

RAY OF FROOOOOOOOST

monk :0

Litterally me while preparing the final encounter for a oneshot at lvl 20 with Epic feats, as I put 2 ancient Red dragons with spellcaster variant (9 spell each, any lvl) and also giving them powerfull items + class lvls. For those curious, the First dragon Is bait. Players know of One of them and they know he keeps resurrecting and think It Is becouse he Is a Cleric of tiamat, but In reality It was 2 dragons resurrecting each other. At the start of the fight, in the open, the First one arrives and baits the players to come in range. The second One Is invisible while Flying, he comes down the second round. This second One is a sorcerer while the First One Is a cleric, so the second this round casts the spells for draconic spells with quicken metamagic, quickened meteor swarm to be precize, and also uses the breath weapon. This After the First alredy used the breath weapon, so this round he also can either cast a spell (like reverse Gravity or Power Word heal, depends, yeah they have about 1200 hp thoghether and both have healing lvl spells to refill their hp completely). So, yeah. First 2 rounds, about 100+ aoe d6 of damage. But Hey, I remuved legendary actions to "balance" this. I Just gave the One with metamagic the invulnerability spell from Xanathar, and I know the players don't have dispel magic or counterspell, and Just in case of bullshit I also gave him counterspell as a sorcerer. "Balanced". Also, as to not look as an evil goblin dungeon dm, they know It Is a Red Dragon. They are making characters hyper resistent to Fire, with also the Epic feat to have Fire immunity, Monks and theifs. So most of the Fire damage Is Just for scene and big scary dragon effect. Did I also mention that the dragons also have advantage of saves, extra proficiency, extra bonuses to saves and extra legendary resistances? Yeah, the players aren't meant to win. The Plan Is Just for the players to not die to Fire the First round, realize they can't win and get out of there. I gave them a homebrew teleport spell, their Mission Is to get It, steal a giant piece of rock, survive a few rounds in this fight, then get away safely. I also have the guy that gives them the Mission telling them to not kill the Red Dragon, becouse even if It doesn't ressurects and comes back for vegance, right now that dragon Is the religious figure of a country were cleric spells are needed in everyday life. Alias, killing him cuts of the spells and everyone in the country dies (the country Is basically a glorified Fire pit were water making spells are a must, they cannot naturally leave becouse geography, this population ended up there becouse wars and appealed to the dragon to survive). The meteor Is important becouse It Is a metal similar to adamantine, which is really rare. There Is a big enought meteorite to single handedly create an army with decent armors of adamantine, like a few thousands of armed soldiers, and that Is the reason they Need to steal It now that the dragon has managed to set up a proper mining site. Before he makes an army that can take out most of the world, and finds a way to have the army surpass the mountain range and the close by countries that have for now stopped the dragon's assaults.

@@stefanomartinelli7344 nice

Well usually there are multiple options that each cost 1 to 3 legendary actions. Maybe he's saving for a 2-cost, or just taking it easy this turn.

One of the lich's legendary action is to cast a cantrip, the base lich has one damaging cantrip which is Ray of Frost. Personally I would've used the Paralyzing Touch for that juicy chance to annoy the monk for 10 turns.

​@@catalin2766 Paralyze the Paralyzer!

Ray of Frost reduces the target’s speed by 10 feet, and at 17th level and up does 4d8 cold damage. Since cantrip damage increases at certain levels.

And is an attack roll, do it is more likely to hit

Psychic damage

@@DrMDHyde [brain fizzles out of ears]

best use of invulnerability and ottiluke's resilient sphere

DM: Roll to see if you get distracted and listen to the whole monologue.

Very short monologue. Its still the same 6 seconds.

honestly though Stunning Strike spam is a great way to force the BBEG to burn their legendary resistances.

​@@entropy11for the inexperienced dm sure but for those who know that's like the meta of the monk class they'd just riposte/legendary resistance their attack/DC and then either legendary action or stun them back

Yep. They're the ones ganging up on the Lich, getting 4+ turns per round for every 1 of the Lich's. Getting a couple extra actions is only fair.

I like the idea of tbe Iron Golem literally having something to say, like it mistakes the fireball as a kind gesture assuming the Wizard knows what fire does to an Iron Golem.

Hahaha yeah. You hit an Iron Golem with Fireball? Congrats, now it's the Heated Iron Golem and all of its attacks deal additional +2d8 damage and he has a no-save aura of 3 damage 5 ft around him :D This is exactly the thing our DM would throw at us. I still dread Eaglebear who had 4 attacks, 2 beaks +10 for 2d10+7, 2 claws +10 for 2d8+7 and bonus damage of 2d8 if both claws hit the same person. We were a party of 5 5-6 lvls and we barely suceeded. 2 smite happy paladins with lucky multiple crits helped a lot!

hehe

i get it!

Read this as flury of kisses and I was like AYO???

Legendary actions for thee but not for me!!!

i aim to entertain

LIches dont have firebolt as a cantrip! you can homebrew it that way tho im not gonna tell the rules lawyers about it

Less damage, but less movement might be better in some situations. Also less creatures resist cold damage than fire damage. TL;DR, meta pick for the ancient wizard

@@JosiahAkaBrick sure Ray of frost is technically better overall, but firebolt is TRADITION!

@@doubleac5561 Pfft, tradition.. That's just a load of- RAY OF FROST!

nah i agree, pathfinder 2e three overall action system presents itself as a superior option for adding variety and meaningful choice to combat

​@@BirdCyclops DnD 3rd (and 3.5) were the other extreme, having too many things every character could do per turn, but the one thing I liked in their system was interchangeability. You could still burn your action to move again, but conversely you could stay in place to make another attack action. So on and so forth with the other things you could do, though in a tier of temporal importance; for example you could spend your action to instead perform a second bonus action in the same turn, but not the other way around. I think something like this would've helped 5th quite a bit . . .

it kinda does, not entirely but it does semi-freeze if the person fails the check! still it was an aesthetic choice for me lmao

Player it a couple of times, been waiting for full release for a while now cause I don't wanna burn out lmao

it just takes a brave heart and bottomless spite!

Luch: NOT AGAIN

Sorcerer: Unearned powers baby! (fortnite dances)

​@@BirdCyclops Oo, Luch the Lich!

video machine got fixed yesterday so im cranging the little lever that makes it generate videos again

dude, as a forever DM i WISH i could use finger of death as a legendary action

@@BirdCyclops you can do whatever you want, it's your game. Reduce the damage to be somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of the highest max hp of your players and set it on a recharge like it's a breath weapon. Simultaneously freak your players out when you blast them with it and make them feel really powerful when they survive it

maybe!

No, I use my legendary action to be first here

Yes! And now you DDDIIIIIEEEEE