Anytime I have a decent campaign idea.

That guy is thinking about an Intoner, the bardic equivalent of a lich.
Anyone wanting a ton of fun ideas for variant liches should check out Pointy Hat's channel, he's doing a whole series on custom lich types for different kinds of spellcaster (and he also just did a Barbarian Lich type, the Scourge, so he's branching out to non-spellcasters too).
- Great call. I very heavily based him on the Intoner, with some adjustments for him being an orator/teller of tall tales instead of a musician. And yes, if you're not watching Pointy Hat get on that ASAP!
  
  I also endorse Pointy Hat and his content. It's on YouTube, and he's also recently been streaming multihour world building sessions on Twitch (I think on Saturdays). Lots of good stuff, presented in an entertaining way.
- So you basically have to unperson him to kill him? Let's just petrify him and chuck him in a demiplane and call it good enough.
  
  The petrification trick works on any lich to counter its phylactery. Unless the lich has prepared some way to counter it, which they might have because liches are highly intelligent generally speaking and don't just sit in a room waiting for adventurers to come and whack them.
- Huh, I saw VaranSL from dumpstat posted something similar a year or so ago. Did variant liches for all the classes. I liked it enough it based my current adventure on it.
  Is that video the only lich one Pointy Hat has done? Or are his villain videos about liches in part?
  Edit: oh yeah that's it. Villain videos are in the Which Lich playlist.

So like, the spooky version of clapping Tinkerbell back to life?

My ADHD feels attacked. 😄

Hello Patrick Rothfuss
- Damn you for reminding me about him. I'm going to be mad for like an hour now.

As someone interested in tabletops but no actual experience in them.. What?
- Sometimes DMs put a lot of thought into their homebrew setting and like anything else it can be more interesting than what ever is going on, like trying to remember Jacob's name.
  
  I mostly meant "what?" about the Lich!

I feel this too hard. I feel so bad for my partner right now who has to hear my constant babbling about my newest homebrew setting lol.
- Lol. Bless my wife for pretending to be interested.