preparing spells as a Lich

[ShadoWolf]

i'm playing a game where i'm a Lich spellcaster (duh!), and we're wondering: since a Lich doesn't need to sleep, when can I prepare spells and how many times a day. we've been in a dungeon for a while now so it would be kinda interesting since i'm the only healer and not doing a good job with it, being evil and all.

Since where talking Lich, do i get an extra hitpoint when i lvelup withing a desecrate spell? (true necro ability)

so thanx for any help with this

[Volk]

A lich still needs 8 hours of "rest" to memorise spells, its like elves, they dont need to sleep but they still need to dedicate the time to memorize spells.

[ShadoWolf]

so any spellcaster can rest for 8h and prepare new spells now matter where he is or what time it is?

[Rob-hin]

Yes, he may not sleep, but he still needs to prepare the spells.

[ShadoWolf]

well tahnk you very much

[jopperm2]

IIRC, if a character needs sleep and hasn't received it he cannot memorize spells until he gets it, but if he doesn't need sleep, any 8 hours will do.

[The Great Hairy]

Don't forget that you can only memorise spells once in any 24hr period as well. You can't rest 8 hours, memorise, cast, rest another 8 hours, memorise, cast.

Although you may have to clarify this with your GM. And ignore Sean Reynolds describing what a "Day" is. Sheesh.

Cheers,
TGHO

[Rob-hin]

Originally Posted by The Great Hairy

Don't forget that you can only memorise spells once in any 24hr period as well. You can't rest 8 hours, memorise, cast, rest another 8 hours, memorise, cast.

I feel this give a spellcaster too much a setback, so we changed it to resting time.
Most if the time it hardly matters though.

[Mr.Waesel]

rest != sleep.

[Mr.Waesel]

Originally Posted by The Great Hairy

And ignore Sean Reynolds describing what a "Day" is. Sheesh.

Cheers,
TGHO

Yeah, that's crap.

[Rob-hin]

Originally Posted by Mr.Waesel

rest != sleep.

You need rest simply to rest and be fit the next day. So it's a requirement to be able to learn spells. But resting does not = learning spells.

[The Great Hairy]

In ye olde 2nd Ed there was a requirement (buried deep in the DMG) that each level of spell(s) required 15 minutes of memorisation to prepare (so your 9th level spells were going to take 2 hrs 15 mins to get ready, on top of the 8 hrs resting). I remember several arguments with my GM back in 1980 about spell memorisation, where he insisted it took something like three days to memorise a full quota of spells (he added all the spell memorisation times, and did not take them in parallel). (Mind you, we were ten years old. So the arguments usually degenerated into "You stink!" "No, you stink!".)

3rd Ed has largely done away with this, which is a Good Thing(tm).

@Rob-hin
Yeah, the "once in 24 hrs" usually is not a problem, so we don't really worry about it. However, some GMs do stick by it, and so it can come up as a ruling.

Cheers,
TGHO