The Library of Vecna

[darjr]

That sounds like a setting to me.

A whole freaking setting that is the library of Vecna. Wow. I really like that.



Look out for the Orangutan of Vecna.

 

[grodog]

My old DM in college had a lord of demon lore, Gresil, and I appropriated him for my own games. His abyssal layers are a gigantic interconnected library stacks:

Library of Gresil. Three planes of row and rows of books, scrolls, tapestries, and other records enclosed in stone shelves. Paved flagstone floors and walls, ceiling that just go up . . . Gresil's library demons now who is permitted to delve the archives. This plane is neutral ground, at least temporarily, as few demons are willing to risk Gresil's wrath.

This was in the context of a quick sketch of Abyssal layers @ The 666 Layers of The Abyss: The Planes but you could easily adapt the idea of a multiplanar library to Vecna (and perhaps throw a bit of Borges into the mix, too? ).

 

[Stoat]

Are you familiar with the Library of Babel? It seems like the exact sort of thing Vecna would devise: a library of infinite secrets and obfuscation.

My old DM in college had a lord of demon lore, Gresil, and I appropriated him for my own games. His abyssal layers are a gigantic interconnected library stacks:

I combined these two ideas for a higher-level 3.5 adventure several years ago. The PC's traveled to the Library of Gresil, which I described identically to Borges' Library of Babel. The PC's wound up befriending a Githyanki "librarian" who was able to help them find the tome they were looking for.

A caveat if you go this route. Borges' library is a near-infinite grid of hexagons connected by doorways, stairs and vertical shafts. Every hexagonal room is identical. Unless you work to make the rooms different, adventuring here can get stale quickly. It's a great place for a 4E-style skill challenge. It ain't a great place for 1E style dungeon crawling.