Bigby's Tomb?

[Matafuego]

Hello everybody!

I know this is old news because it was in "Complete Mage" but I just found out about it:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20061010a&page=4

What do you think?
Searching on the web I found there was an old tournament module (only played once) that made reference to Bigby's Tomb as well.

And for those who know about it...
How did he die?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Karlson_the_red]

I did notice that myself... I hadn't heard he had been killed off, let alone making his own tomb. However the only thing that gives me pause is that it states that sarcophagus has never been used, but in the same sentence, it also says there is a permenant magic mouth on the skeleton which bestows the "hand" power. So, who really knows.

In my gameworld of Greyhawk, Bigby has semi-retired from the Circle of Eight and is the headmaster at Grey College. So, I could explain it away, by saying that he built the tomb to be ready for his death, and somehow it launched early...

Karlson the Red
DM of The Greyhawk Chronicles
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[Ripzerai]

Bigby died at the beginning of the adventure Vecna Lives!, killed along with the rest of the Circle of Eight (saving only Mordenkainen), the victim of the last wielder of the Hand and Eye of Vecna.

There was another scenario, in the anthology Treasures of Greyhawk, that involved the PCs going through his house after his death.

He was brought back to life (through a clone spell) shortly after that, and he's officially still alive today. That doesn't contradict Complete Mage's idea that he has a tomb, though, since he built it while he was still alive, and he still has the corpse of his former body to keep safe somewhere.

It amuses me to think that, with clone spells, powerful NPCs might have many different bodies in their tombs, each interned in sarcophagi with full honors, each more or less identical to the last.

 

[Garnfellow]

Nuts . . . I just put my Polyhedron collection back in storage. "The 384th Incarnation of Bigby's Tomb" was written by Frank Mentzer and used for some tournament games; it was published in Polyhedron 20.

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It's been a long time since I've looked at this one, but I'm not sure Bigby is actually dead in the module . . . more in suspended animation. (If no one else chimes in, I'll check for sure.)