I treated Lichboy as a window of opportunity for slaughter on the scale of the Dwarven/Elf/Orc Horde Wars. And I took barely a scratch. Chose as my first staging ground the staircase leading up to the area you first encounter him. (Thief scouted it out first.) Summoned some minions, protective & enchancement spelled the heck out of everybody (tho I later found this largely unnecessary), then fired off a series of area spells to get things going, just in front of lichboy and/or at the top of the stairs: ensnare and/or web, spiked ground if you have it, toxic cloud type (higher end work on undead), fireball, potions of exposion, etc. By the time any of his sorry summoned undead got near my minions blocking the staircase, if at all, they were easy pickings for the ranged weapons of my jolly party waiting expectantly below. The undead corpses and bones piled chest high as badly wounded lichboy cluelessly summoned away. They piled so high they filled the stairwell, spilled over the banisters, actually creating a wider platform from which to wreak my devestation, since I could now stand on the banisters as well. My mage and cleric would occaisionally top up the area spells as others wore off, or summon more minions when they got whittled down. Eventually he'd either get hurt so bad he'd dimension door over my way or I'd let somebody get too close and he'd come after me, and I'd have to do him in. But of course he'd pop right back and we could start all over again, resting in the forge(?) room when needed, to replenish the spells. I only finally did him in when I was satisfied all my folks had gotten all the levels out of it they were going to in a reasonable amount of time, and I was thoughoughly bored with the activity.
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