Y'all asked for this one! A LOT! so I hope you dig it!

Artificer Lich: The moment I discovered the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

I'm imagining an ocean-themed Blight and how their Deathbloom would be coral

I think a Wildfire Druid wouldn't just be another growing blight on the land, but a constant, sentient wildfire expanding ever outward.

Imagine the Barbarian who needs to be the literal definition of "Too angry to die"

I will NEVER get bored of the little final sharade of pointy hat pretending he didn't already wrote the stories he tells

Tying the Blight to an environment, rather than an object, was an inspired choice. I like it!

I love the idea of a Warlock litch who overpowers their patron, making them a filactory

One thing I particularly love about this is that it's a lich who isn't innately evil or selfish. Especially with the country idea, you can actually have a lich who's reasonable. Obviously there's no "Hey bro can you not" considering they were willing to sacrifice themselves, but they are a person who has some actual emotion and sympathy, unlike like most other liches. A lich with good intentions is something we need more of, I love this concept.

ARTIFICER CONFIRMED? WILL THE HAT BLESS US?

1:53 Agreed but the idea of someone becoming a lich by accident is fucking hilarious to me

Imagine, for a moment, a young woman, a druid, driven to the brink of insanity by melancholy, despair and the feeling of betrayal, after discovering herself to be barren, incapable of generating new life, something that is seen as a curse according to the tenets of the druidic order she was a part of, and as such was banished from the order, and the grove in which she was born. Then one day, while searching for a new grove to call home, she discovers a thought to be extinct species of plant, known for the incredible healing properties of it's sap, and in a spark inspiration born of desperation, performs the ritual to awaken the plant, giving it the conciousness of a child, her new child. The years pass and the plant grows into a great tree, giving it's mother droplets of it's sap, greatly increasing her longevity and healing any disease that may afflic her. When one day, close to twenty knights invade their grove, coming for the tree's healing sap, as a plague has spread across the kingdom, killing dozens, threating the collapse of the kingdom. And while the druid would've normally have given them the sap, the quantity that would be needed to heal the entire kingdom, as was being requested, would kill her plant child, and so she refuses. One of the knights then revealed himself to be the king of the kingdom and demands that she hand over the sap, and when she refuses again, he orders his men to attack and the druid fights back, using her magics to defend herself and her child. The battle is long and hard, and she slays several of her attackers, but for as powerful a druid as she is, she is only one, while her attackers still number close to a dozen. Soon she is overwelmed and restrained, her magic spent, and so she can only watch in despair as her child is drained dry of it's sap, screaming at the king and his knights to stop, to spare her child. But her cries fall on deaf ears, for the king cannot afford to fail in this mission, by any means necessary, even if he knows that the cries of the druid will haunt him for eternity. Then, after the tree has been drained of it's sap, the king and the remaining knights leave, leaving behind an utterly broken mother weeping over the corpse of her child. The druid weeps for her child for three days and two nights. But at the begining of the third night, her grief turns into hatred, swearing vengance upon the king and his kingdom, for the murder of her child she will kill the king and all his descendants, wherever they may be. And as such, she performs the ritual necessary to become a Blight, so she may better fulfill her vengeance, fusing with the corpse of the tree that was her child in process.

This feels very Swamp Thingy to me. Like you could play an adventure with Swamp Thing as the villain. He protects the Green at all costs, even the lands around his swamp. Hooray magic alligators and moss!...or magic moss alligators. Edit: Swamp Thing becomes a blight BECAUSE it wants to spread throughout the land and obliterate other life not of the swamp which the blight deems too destructive (any humanoid) and impure (not swamp stuff). Kind of gives darker Nausica and the Valley of the Winds vibes.

Making a Fungal themed Blight for my players to fight, and the first thing they hear as the main body forms is "can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters"

"Each time the scarlet flower blooms, Malenia's rot advances. It has bloomed twice already. With the third bloom, she will become a true goddess.” - Scarlet Aronia incantation description Absolutely love this idea, especially from a world building perspective. Also, I do stay for the end-video rants.

Dude I have watched every one of your vids over the past 3 days. I’m designing a MASSIVE 5e world from the ground up complete with overhauls of a lot of mechanics I find lame or boring or just not quite right. Your videos have been INCREDIBLE. I’ve designed huge sorcerer houses headed by sorcerer litches, added racial options, designed warforged animals partially with your augmented race as inspiration, and so much more so thank you your entire channel is a masterpiece.

I'd love to see some lich ideas for some of the semi-martial classes too! Like a monk that has achieved a type of lichdom from meditating within their tomb, or a barbarian who has entered a final rage that won't let them rest until their trauma is resolved or something.

Tbh, I feel like a great way to wrap up this series (when you inevitably run out of spellcasting classes) would be to do an update to the concept of a wizard lich with your own flair

What I like best about your liches so far is that each one also represents how we as normal humans try to achieve quasi immortality. The intoner; create a work of art so great people will remember you long after your death. The hierarch; immortality through your descendents. The blight; immortality by building an empire that will last beyond you. Can't wait for more, personally I am feeling paladin, by extension immortality through teaching.

The Blight is basically as if a druid had a wish for immortality to protect nature granted by a Djinn. "Congrats! Your immortal and can control nature to let it fight back, but the forest is now a massive, malignant cancer"

I was talking with my brother about warlocks and he actually came up with a pretty good concept for the lich version of a warlock based on the idea of pacts. Basically you could make a pact with someone to keep yourself alive for an extended period of time. This could be through having someone die in your place, extending your lifespan by taking years off theirs, or just taking over their body after being killed and replacing them entirely. It’s a simple premise with a lot of potential for flavour and it’s built off a fundamental aspect of the entire class.

Just got to wait for Paladin and Artificer liches to start writing a hombrew where each of the nations is led by a different kind of lich and they are all wanting the others gone. “Till Lichdom come” is the working title 😂

Is no one going to talk about the fact that the toxic jungle from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind works exactly like a memorial ?! This universe could be a great setting for DnD campaigns. Amazing video, like always !

A little teaser of a Paladin lich has me extremely excited as an idea. I can't wait to see your eventual twist to it.

13:57 this section gave me huge nostalgia for guild wars 2 Sylvari race. Your character is born from a tree city and sent out into the world to learn.

I like how you’ve balanced this Lich to be the hardest to reach, but also the easiest to kill compared to the other Liches you’ve made.

Oooh an artiticer villain would be awesome! I would hope they would be the comically Victorian entrepreneur with handlebar mustache (man or woman) and make comically gigantic machines that feed off nature and magic respectively.

Perhaps one interesting idea is a sort of love story type deal. There were two people who fell in love and came to value a particular area due to it being rather hidden and quite beautiful. It was their own little hideaway from the rest of the world. However, due to sudden illness one of the lovers is brought to the brink of death and the two decide to make their hideaway be their resting place. Years later the remaining lover is watching over the place when people decide to start expanding their towns. This would cause the destruction of hideaway in the process. In a moment of pure emotion, the remaining lover goes through the ritual to become a blight, vowing to ensure noone else will overtake this place, that nobody can ever destroy their hideaway. And so when the ritual is complete, a lone deathbloom grows over the lover's grave. I'd imagine if this is contained in a setting though it would have to be a lower leveled variant of a blight that hasn't spread far but is still a threat, this way the party can manage it as I'd imagine something like this likely isn't BBEG territory, but still an overall really cool concept imo.

You know a Rouge Litch who lives as long as his crime spree lasts could be real intristing.

I honestly love this idea and I think you could bend it enough to where all Druid subclasses can be used for this - A Circle of Dreams Druid who becomes a Blight to make an area more like the Feywild and the Deathbloom could be a special plant from the Feywild Or - A Circle of Spores Druid who after getting threats of a rallying mob calling their fungal obsession witchcraft or macabre decide to become a Blight and now spread Mushrooms and Fungi everywhere with the Death Bloom being a Bleeding-Tooth Fungus or a Devils Finger Fungus

I imagine one day a lich warlock: Turning their patron into a phylactery/ Achieving a undead state that mixes the patron’s origin/ Their soul melding with the patron creating a constant struggle between two or more powerful individuals.

I stay for every rant, and you know what video I would love to hear a rant at the end of? A monk lich video, I have such a soft spot for that class and I am infinitely curious how you would spin that.

I know that there’s ALWAYS something free at the end of the video but I still get so excited when you say “free”

I love its name because it's so literal. It is literally a blight (a disease/scourge)

Yes, Pointy Hat, I stay until the end. And I’d say that I’m slaying, living, and killing it! Love this series and can’t wait to see what you do for the warlock (please do the warlock).

I stay for your ramblings at the end Pointy Hat! I'm a content creator like you (You've probably never heard of me since I make videos about Paleontology) and I have been dealing with a lot of stuff in my personal life and I have been spending a lot of time watching videos by you, Ginny, Dungeon Dad and a few others and honestly these make me really happy. I may even think about getting into the D&D video space one day soon... And if that day ever comes, I think you and I would actually fit really well together! 👀

I've decided to use the Blight for my parties amnesiac assassin. It's been so much fun tying in his backstory and revealing that uncanny familiarity with the area and the grove before it became a memorial and the blight was formed, letting him piece together his own history, until recently when he realized he and his masters were the reason the blight manifested.

Please do more of these unique liches. They're so creative & introduce new ideas of an undead big bad with different themes based on the class. ...Now I'm genuinely curious what a ranger-lich would be like.

Literally caught this upload at 12 seconds after release and already planning a whole story arch around this idea. Honestly all these lich variations are amazing for storytelling. The plots and twists are refreshing and only makes me want to stretch them to their limits to see how far the ideas can go. Do so want to see many more of these videos and see what else we can get up to.

I just want to let you know that you are by far my favorite ttrpg producer of content on KZfaq. The amount of effort that you put in to these stories is unreal

Man this is incredible, the absolute depth of character you can feel from this is astonishing. I hope warlock lich rolls around at some point soon-- I think that would be pretty awesome, and one of the characters I have upcoming would be pretty cool to develop that into.

This is scarily timed! My party are about to run into the druid lich in our campaign that I've been planning for weeks but I've been putting off the hard work of fleshing out the big bad. And now you've done the work for me! Cheers man!

Been so excited for this one. Ok but like Artificer with a mechanical phylactery sounds so cool I want that so badly

I think aesthetically this is my favorite litch, and seems to have the most potential for a long campaign. Depending on the mosulium's size, enemies inside it, and settlements for encounters.

Big fan of both the Blight and the Hierarch! Certainly some interesting undead foes who definitely could inspire some great villains in a campaign. If the series continues, I'd be really curious to see your take on a Paladin Lich. I tried to throw one together myself, but then I realized that Death Knights already exist and already sort of fit that role of a powerful undead. Regardless, can't wait to see the next episode of "Which Lich".

For the Artificer Lich, Nox from Wakfu seems like good inspiration.

Man, that's just what I needed to complete my Spore Druid idea! I was thinking of a flavor focusing more on flowers and vines. Spores would be toxic pollen, and the symbiotic entity would be countless flowers blooming across Druid's body. And the peak of their transformations would be turning into a Blight - the one who values beauty and happiness above all. In their grove it's perpetual spring - flowers are blooming, vines are crawling and intoxicating smells and pollen fill the air. Breathing those spores in, you'd feel overwhelming happiness and content - you'd never want to leave this place, you'd want to stay here forever, drooling in pollen-induced stupor until your body rots and blooming vines cover it, hiding the ugly side of the grove. Now I have to think up a way of working that idea into my Spelljammer campaign.

I love that you named the Druid Lich a Blight. 10/10 no notes.

I’ve quite literally needed something like this for my own version of Mine of Phandelvar, thanks for coming in clutch Pointy Hat.

Antonio my friend, you set the bar so high that I was very excited and very scared when I saw you were making my favorite class, but I gotta say, this is incredible, it really shows me what true creativity and story telling can be. Top notch👌

Hi Pointy Hat, thank you so much for these videos. You are such a source of inspiration, especially with these "Which Lich" videos. You inspired me to make one of my own, a Rogue lich. Here it is, for anyone to use. Thank you for what you do! MISER and SYCOPHANT During the height of a Rogue's career they have likely accumulated countless treasures and items of value. But sometimes a Rogue worries about what will happen to their valuables when they die. They cannot bear to think of robbers, nobles, or would-be adventurers pilfering their hard earned treasures after they are gone. Such Rogues may turn to Undeath to retain control of their hoard for all time, and in a ritual learned from dark powers, they become a Miser. A Miser binds their soul to their treasure Hoard, the source of their pride, greed, yet also fear. Each item in a Hoard is tainted by a Miser's soul, making it a physical extension of their body. The Miser knows the exact quantity of their Hoard, its value, and is aware of anything going on around it, even if it's a single copper coin miles away. The majority of the Miser's soul is found within its Crowning Gewel. The Crowning Gewel can be any valuable treasure, from a gemstone, a rare painting, or a legendary weapon. So long as the Crowning Gewel remains intact, the Miser will be able to reform its body countless times over. A Miser takes great pride in their Hoard, yet is never satisfied with what it has. Its greed drives them to make their Hoards larger, growing in wealth, influence, and magical power. A few short hours after new treasure is added to a Miser's Hoard, the Miser's soul stretches to encompass the new items, and its strength grows. But the Miser can also be weakened. If an item from a Miser's Hoard is kept far away from the rest of the Hoard for an extended period of time, or a potent disenchantment spell is cast upon it, the Miser's soul leaves the item and the Miser's powers decrease. If a Miser loses most of their Hoard, with only their Crowning Gewel and a few other items in their possession, the Miser's body crumbles to dust leaving behind only a skull called a Sycophant. A Sycophant is one of the weakest demi-liches, desiring above all else to keeping their Crowning Gewel safe. To do so, the Sycophant changes its tactics. It seeks out or waits for another creature to lay claim to the Crowning Gewel, like a bandit chief or a noble. Whoever comes into possession of the Crowning Gewel, the Sycophant will serve, granting them access to its magical abilities and vast knowledge. But make no mistake: the Sycophant is merely biding its time. For once a Sycophant is able to accrue enough wealth around its Crowning Gewel, it will transform back into a Miser, kill its former "master," and begin the cycle of avarice anew.

I love the ramblings at the end of the videos, they fuel me. And the lil smooch from pointyhat is everything 🙏

Dude, you are one of the best content creators in this community. Really clever, lots of fun, excellently crafted and produced videos, humble yet cool persona, and totally professional execution. AND free content. Rispetto, amico. Dare I say it? Hat's off to you, sir.

i LOVE the idea that an entire zone of the world becomes an extension of a blight's senses, power, and will. the ENTIRE area turns into a giant panopticon! you're so good at homebrew design that approaches familiar concepts in entirely unique ways :^]

Just discovered you today and have binged a bunch of your videos. I actually enjoy the ramblings at the end and stay to the end.

This is literally perfect for a campaign I'm about to run. Thank you so very much. You're truly a cackling DM

I missed my chance to say this pun on the last lich video. “You son of a lich

Anything can be a villian if you put work on it Shredder from TMNT is a Monk Evil Route Corvo from Dishonored is a Gloomstalker Ranger(Basically playing a SUPER Tactical Rogue) Chaos Space Marine are basically evil Clerics and Paladins

Just found your channel yesterday and I absolutely love the content! Gets me wanting to DM with a lot of these awesome twists and the ramblings are A+

I definitly stay for your ramblings. You always put together beautifull videos with good pictures and graphics, you choose the music very well, the humour is never to much, has a good timing and yeah, your topics are very interesting. So yeah, I stay till the end. Thanks :)

Man, these lich videos are the pinnacle of your creativity, I love them. Idea for a Fighter or Barbarian Lich: Its phylactery is a war. This can be between countries, gangs, families, races, tribes, or individual people. As long as the battle rages, through violence or espionage or propaganda, they continue to live, almost forcing them to maintain the conflict through subtle or obvious means. Only by forging peace can it finally be defeated (or by killing everyone involved, either or) This was inspired by Xivu Arath from Destiny 2 (The Hive god of war who grows stronger from any violence committed, for, against, or unrelated to her ("[She] feeds on warfare. The more violent the act, the greater the power she draws from it")), Apollyon from For Honor (Who stoked war between 3 different nations by brutality and subterfuge, to wheen out the wolves among the sheep), and the United States

I just wrote a 'little' one shot for our group based on an ever expanding dangerous land. The players are a team choosen to find out why this is happening and who´s behind it all. I delayed the onshot because I dind´t had an interesting BBEG. BUT NOW I HAVE!!! Thx a lot for that! You´re the true hero of my upcoming adventure!

this is the BEST one of your ideas yet, the drama of a lich with good intentions, the story possibilities with an entire environment under it's control, and the very clear unchanging final destination for the players instead of having to search for wherever the phylactery is. Bravo, definitely will adapt and use this in the future

The art is sick! This one is one of my favorite artworks you have done.

The Fawn-adventure sounds INTENSE ... save the town, save Fawn ... save the world! I'm imagining him popping up, appearing to the adventurers to give hints, clues, and help, as he can, fighting the Memorial to help these people who want to help them all, the way Fawn once wanted to help the land.... TEARS. And yes, you are indeed slaying, living, killing it!

This is such an awesome idea. I am running an Eldritch horror campaign and my party is going to eventually make it to some kind of spooky forest in search of a relic and the whole expanding Blight idea is going to work incredibly well for that.

god, i am OBSESSED with these lich videos. I want to run a game with alllllll of them 😭

Love these lich videos, please keep them going if you can. And I always stay for your ramblings Mr. Hat

A druid lich? I can't wait. I did love the bard lich! It was my favorite so far.

Since your first Which Lich video, I did the same for the other casters for my own amusement and future usage and had the same conceptual idea as you for the Druid. So glad to see your take on it :D These are such great ideas and I can't thank you enough for your hard work!

I do, in fact, stay through the end of every one of your videos! Also LOVE the Druid Lich idea!!! I’ve already uncompensated some of your content into my games and plan to continue doing so with your Warden Dragons. I absolutely LOVE that idea! Thanks for all the great videos!

I've been searching for what feels like forever for a D&D KZfaqr that actually inspires me, so I've been elated to find you. This video, in particular, answers a riddle I'd left nebulous but undeniably important in an old Campaign setting I'm resurrecting next year. It's perfect! Thank you for the hard work!

Ive been waiting for this all week!! Excited to see another which lich, and I like the acknowledgement of evil druids.

I love this so much and you somehow blew all my expectations out of the water AGAIN somehow but also I really wanna highlight the HORROR potential of this 😭😭 because this shit would be utterly terrifying if the group didn't know what was happening and had to slowly piece it together. Just like... being in a forest that's a little too shady and makes you feel like you're being watched wherever you go, maybe investigating disappearances or something, they find victims that are basically just fertillizer at this point that clearly died in a struggle, but no sign whatsoever of whoever killed them or whoever dragged them there in the first place. Sounds of cracking twigs and branches waving in the wind that make you think someone is following, but whenever you see a bush rustling like someone's going to come out of it, nobody is there. The animals look strange and just stare at you, staying in sight but barely visible, like they're in on something you aren't. It's not "lets go defeat the lich", it's a monster hunt in the dark creepy woods with the slow realization that the creepy woods IS the monster, and you're in the middle of it. This potentially plays into so many interesting horror concepts... see In The Tall Grass (2019), The Color Out Of Space, Pet Sematary, Annihilation (2018), The Ritual (2018). And imagine running a campaign like one of them, but with a Blight behind it all 😳

I stay until the end of your videos and think your ramblings are hilarious!

I actually JUST did a Druid “villain” arc with my group. The Druid Council came together to vote on a path that would return the modernizing world to one more at balance with nature. The one druid who wanted to oust the ruling class responsible by any means necessary was open to being challenged (he was not evil but was definitely more radical in his beliefs, willing to take them to any conclusion).

Im so excited for more of this series, especially if you come up with non-Caster litches, too. I could see a Monk or Barbarian litch being really neat

This is my favourite alternate lich so far. The memorial and its expansion is such a cool idea. Thanks for all of your hard work. Looking forward to more lich videos. Maybe warlock?

I'm creating a campaign based on a brazilian RPG called Ordem Paranormal and right now I'm gathering references for a cool villain. Casualy discovered your channel and I don't even play DND but that was really interesting! The way you open and narrow the possibilities and the perfect and imersive drawings make everything really inspiring and coherent. Thank you so much

Artificer Lich: My phylactery is a hard drive, I need to upgrade my RAM if I want to keep existing

I'm so pumped to use every variant of lich to create a legion of doom for an undead themed campaign that still has some spicy variety. So much flavor. So awesome. Thank you for making something so cool!

I love staying til the end of the ramblings ❤️ so wholesome and slightly awkward as you give ten different goodbyes back to back

Once again, you just utterly knocked this out of the park! I actually have a druid/lich as an antagonist in the game I ran so this felt like some kinda godsend when I came across this video. Everything about this is inspired. Love your content. Hope you continue doing more!

I stay for the end of the video ramblings. They're genuinely one of my favorite parts of your videos.

Man this is awesome. I've had an idea for a cursed forest caused by a powerful druid in mourning for ages. This is literally perfect for it. Thank you Pointy boi, you've knocked it out the park yet again

This kindof reminds me of the sentient forest guy from The Unexpectables podcast. He's literally a forest fey eldrich being that can always see and hear you (unless you have an anti life shell up) and his humanoid persona is really only used to talk to you. Also there's no wildlife or birds in the forest being because he'd just eat them Edit; his name is Fleur de Mort

Staying till the last seconds for the memes :)) Thank you for the inspirational video! I'm creating a death land in my campaign and this is super helpful!

I watched the whole thing. Absolutely love this series! So creative and compelling!!

Sir Pointed Hat, I would never leave the video before you finish the ramblings!

I kinda expected a mushroom spore spreading druid lich that "gives" other immortality and it's like if Papa Nurgle was in The Last of Us Lich Artificer aka Mecha Lich

I like the stories that could come from this. Especially on the second story you gave. I could see a necro wizard, sorcerer or bard actually assisting in this and having to make up a ritual to pull the man’s soul free from the grove. The caveat being it can only truly work if he wants to be set free.

I love your videos! I've now watched every single one of them, and I've loved every single one!

This is my favorite Lich so far, because it’s a good-natured Lich and that’s very cool!

It's funny that you mentioned Zuggtmoy, as I'm running an adaptation of the Classic Temple of Elemental Evil (where Zuggtmoy was the final boss). This will definitely help with my vision for the 4th floor of the Temple, acting as her High Priest.

I am going to try to work this in as soon as it will fit in the plot, this is such a cool idea!

Can't put into words how much I love this concept and the way you fleshed it out.

Yes I'm really happy we get the third video of this series. Also it's funny because after seeing your video about the sorcerer lich I got to read the 13 tome of a manga which surprisingly enough revealed that the main villain was practically the same thing so now I have this example to draw inspiration from when I will make a campaign about this

I like the idea of a Demi-Blight which has stopped the expanse of the memorial at much expense causing both them and the grove they sacrificed everything to save wither away infront of their eyes as the last thing to rot is their very soul, but idk sounds cool to me.

The rambling send off is the cherry on top of the video's delicious sundae, so I must stay to the end to enjoy it every time!

I totally love these! Everything you've done is pretty great, even the stuff I can't see myself using, but the lich stuff always bothered me the same way as you, so this is awesome :)