To run one, you have to know what its compulsion is. Undead creatures are driven by compulsions, not survival instincts or rational motives. Skull lords aren’t wizards but warlords-more correctly, agglomerations of warlords, former squabbling rivals now forced to share a single wasted body with three skinless heads. Liches are megalomaniacal wizards who became undead in the pursuit of immortality and boundless power. So what makes a skull lord different from a lich? Quite a lot, actually, but let’s start with the lore. A plethora of spells just creates analysis paralysis. Spells are all right, but if you ask me, the way to make a monster interesting is to give it interesting features. I’ve been procrastinating on analyzing the skull lord, because it’s another damn monster with a spellbook three inches thick.
