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You can tell how something was written by examining the result. Agatha Christie started with the solution and worked backwards. Lost was made up as it went along. These are both apparent without the author having to tell us.

He is unalive and well in Tome of Annihilation.

Sure. And Beowulf is pure entertainment without anything deep to say too.

This is all useful material, the trouble with those adventures are pretty much forgotten, presumably by the people who work for WotC these days too. I assume none of them were of a quality to consider bringing back, but if you are going to do a Vecna adventure, you need to find a way to work...

Who are expensive. Which is why they are limited to megabudget Tom Cruise movies. Personally, I would rather watch something that blew its budget on actors rather than stunts. 1970s Doctor Who. Didn’t have the money for expensive FX, so it didn’t try. It was theatrical, depending on the...

Does he? I've never read any of those adventures. What personality quirks and traits does he have? How does he speak? Why has no one ever said "well Vecna, he is like this:"? Skeletor is sardonic. Acerecrak is sadistic. Azlin is authoritarian and academic. Soth is gloomy and tragic. Strahd is a...

In game terms, if it says you "break" something when you use it, it means in no longer exists afterwards. It's gone, the same way that a potion is gone when you drink it.

It means here is a pretty picture, please give me some money in exchange. I know this because I do it myself.

A quote that is itself propaganda. An artist trying to pretend that what they do is more important than it actually is. Art is most often just something to hang over a stain on the wallpaper. It’s sold for money, and there is nothing wrong with that, artists have to eat the same as any job...

I love Star Wars. But it’s just light entertainment, not great art or divine revelation. It’s fundamentally unimportant. It’s nice that a good many people owe their livelihoods to it, but that’s all.

They have a point. Star Trek was a vehicle for humanist values, Dune is about the exploitability of religion, Doctor Who was supposed to be a vehicle for teaching kids about history. The only time Star Wars has been about anything other than $$$ was Andor, long after GL left the building.

Whilst being on TV helps, you can also give a character a personality through writing. But Gygax didn’t write Vecna because he was supposed to be dead with only his hand and eye remaining, and he hasn’t had enough time on screen in adventures, novels or computer games to establish one. Strahd...

Sure, a no-one director used a highly derivative story to help his low budget space opera make a ton of money. He did it for fortune and glory, to quote what he did next.

A good villain can’t be generic, the important thing about personality is they actually have one. Which Skeletor does but Vecna does not.

Star Wars and D&D are good examples of products that where created for the sole purpose of making money for their creators. Not to be "modern myth" or culture. You could possibly come up with a few examples of geek stuff that you could argue were created for purposes other than just making...

The idea that D&D needed a big milestone Avengers Doomsday style adventure to celebrate a minor rules revision at all is a terrible one. As a regular adventure (and sequel to Rime of the Frostmaiden), a Netheril time travel adventure would have been fine. And now they are in the rules...

This is as I heard it too. GL still had a fair bit of control over TCW at that time.

Even if apples exit, no reason to suppose they are being baked into pies. They are a cultural thing, European, and only go back around 500 years.

Steampunk tends to go for monarchy, even if the author doesn't live in one.

The ingredients are very variable, aside from the basic ingredients of bread, cheese and apple. Possibly adding sweet pickle, pickled onions, ham and/or side salad. You may find it on the menu in English cafes, tea shops and pubs.