Benjamin Olson
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Back in college, the first assignment for my study abroad program in Rome was to go find every ancient obelisk in the city. At the time I assumed that would be my only obelisk hunt.
I can certainly see them using them to do a partial reset (allowing them to keep whatever they want and also handwave away anything they don't - coincidentally including everything they've identified as problematic).I'm betting Vecna will use the Obelisks to "reset" the timeline of all D&D worlds, so the next edition lore can start from a blank state, since RotFM says he used it to erase the Weavers from existence, and you can reset the timeline to before Karsu's Folly with the one present in the adventure.
So, lets see how this one would work. The VTT hits a certain critical mass and they release an AR/VR headset based on a subsidised version of Hololens.It's clear that Vecna's (AKA WotC CEO) real plot is to use the obelisks to merge the Real World(tm) with the D&D multiverse.
I honestly love the idea of an adventure in which the characters have to travel to Real Earth, becoming ordinary modern versions of themselves, in order to stop Ralph P. Vecna, a legendary D&D writer, from rewriting the original adventure and making Vecna impossible to killClearly, Vecna is using the power of the obkisks to break into Earth proper (our world) and then rewrite the OD&D rules so that he can never be defeated in his home multiverse.
UD or John Cabot?Back in college, the first assignment for my study abroad program in Rome was to go find every ancient obelisk in the city. At the time I assumed that would be my only obelisk hunt.
Did the one in St Peter's Square count? Because technically the Vatican isn't part of Rome...Back in college, the first assignment for my study abroad program in Rome was to go find every ancient obelisk in the city. At the time I assumed that would be my only obelisk hunt.
Well! Ain’t that cool.Perhaps less relevant, but still novel IMO is that a black obelisk shows up in the adventure D0: Danger at Darkshelf Quarry in the mines near the village of Darkshelf.
This adventure was a new 1E adventure included in the special Against the Slave Lords compilation as a prequel adventure to A1. The book and adventure were released in June 2013, during the D&D NEXT playtest, and therefore this particular obelisk predates 5E by about a year.