I read this and what I see is:

I wanted to be a bad-ass, I even said I was a bad-ass several times in my role. Yet no one would play by my rules and let me be a bad-ass.

Saying 'I am a badass' does not make one a bad-ass. One of the biggest faults I saw with Crovax (other than being a human in a dwarf suit for all intents and purposes) was that your tactics more or less amounted to charging straight at the lich and hoping you could take him down thusly...and then you'd do it again, and again, and again. I spoke with you that one time to try to get you to start thinking along strategic lines...but I don't think you were getting it, perhaps I was being too vague. A dwarven paladin played correctly can be a scary thing for a lich to take on...of course a lot of things played correctly can be scary for a lich to take on. Can I play them well enough to make a lich scared? Dunno, probably not...but that's not my point. I think you dug yourself a huge hole, and jumped into it before you were ready to. One does not roll up a character and say 'Today, I will go kill a Lich'...even poorly played liches can be dangerous (far more so than say...a poorly played warrior). You set yourself up for the frustration, and quite frankly...I think had you focused a bit more on the roleplay aspect of your character, and less on the 'I want to be a bad-ass and take out a lich' factor, you may have been far more successful.

my $.02...take it or leave it as you chose.