D&D 5E Obelisks? [spoilers YES]

[Benjamin Olson]

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.

 

[delericho]

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.

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).

Of course, that just makes it a really big RSE.

 

[MarkB]

Have we had a major Vecna-centric adventure in 5e yet? If not, him scheming to build and activate enough obelisks to rewrite history in his image could be a pretty good scenario.

Maybe there could be some Quantum Leap shenanigans along the way, with Vecna altering history smaller-scale by sending back minions into the past, then the PCs have to follow them back in time to major Realms-shaking events and put right what once went wrong.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

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.

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.
Again one there are enough headset users, the headset users are Iseakied in to the game where they have to undertake missions for Vecna to find a necessary number of obelisks and that activates a necromantic ritual that consumes the souls of the non VR users and bring about a Shadowrun style magic apocalypse in the real world.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Clearly, 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.

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 kill

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

It would be funny if they found crashed on the floor the battlebus of Fortnite.

Maybe we could find cameos of D&D characters, for example ersatz of Stranger Things and Ricky&Morty.

 

[ersatzphil]

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.

UD or John Cabot?

 

[Demetrios1453]

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...

 

[hojulation]

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.

 

[darjr]

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.

Well! Ain’t that cool.