Think coverage and duration instead. Let's say a flask of holy water affects 1/16th of the lich, and it's holy energies are expended in that first round. Total immersion could thus potentially do a maximum of 16x the damage - and if the water kept changing each round, repeatedly.
Buy your barrel (I will even give you a STEEP discount for "no flasks"), but: It's not just quantity, it's deployment.
@LeviKornelsen Reminds me of a 5e game of Innistraad in which the DM gave us Endless Decanters of Holy Water (because the landscape had been tainted by eldrich horrors and drinking from a stream could make you grow tendrils).
The 1200d6 I dropped on a vampire mid-boss (with useful info to share) got handwaved away MIGHTY fast.
That's what happens when you try to make force story out of wargame (and I say this as one who loved the story)
@LeviKornelsen when this came up in a game a while back, I ruled it as immersion in lava for undead. Super cool to see all the different takes here though. And yes, the trick isn't so much getting the water as dunking the lich...
It's a vial of holy water. A small glass container with a stopper. It can be used in rituals and spell casting. It can also be splashed or broken on undead and extra-planar evil creatures to cause them damage.
It's the vial that is the key. It is specially blessed so the water retains its holy power. No mere flask or barrel would do so. The cost of the holy water, truly, is the container. Without it, it would simpy be water the moment it left the bowl.
@LeviKornelsen I love these sorts of things; it really demonstrates how different DMs have different worlds and worldviews.
IMC, it wouldn't matter if you used a pint or a barrel. The application of holy water on a target is a projection of divine power. There's a minimum amount of water required (thus the flask instead of a drop), but that power isn't dependent on the quantity of water, only that said water was sanctified by a diety opposed to the target.
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I played a character recently who soaked a rope gauntlet in holy water, daredevil style.
The GM gave me a decently useful ruling with it, but it is hard to go off book for items like that when they're only presented as a 1-off grenade.
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