Vecna Question
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grodog
Hero
Jester47---
Skip Williams handled the Greyhawk/core D&D pantheon. While Dragon 300's Sage Advice offers answers about the D&DG book, it doesn't provide that level of detail.
From the old 2e adventure WGA4 Vecna Lives (in which Vecna is re-introduced to Greyhawk as a demigod), Vecna is statted as a 20th level wizard demigod. Die Vecna Die is the adventure that makes Vecna a lesser god, however, I don't own the sequels to Vecna Lives (Vecna Reborn in 1998 and Die Vecna Die in 2000) since I didn't like Vecna Lives that much to begin with....
Skip Williams handled the Greyhawk/core D&D pantheon. While Dragon 300's Sage Advice offers answers about the D&DG book, it doesn't provide that level of detail.
From the old 2e adventure WGA4 Vecna Lives (in which Vecna is re-introduced to Greyhawk as a demigod), Vecna is statted as a 20th level wizard demigod. Die Vecna Die is the adventure that makes Vecna a lesser god, however, I don't own the sequels to Vecna Lives (Vecna Reborn in 1998 and Die Vecna Die in 2000) since I didn't like Vecna Lives that much to begin with....
jester47
First Post
I have everything but Vecna Reborn. I really liked some of the material in DVD, and vecna lives has some nice maps and interesting tidbits, but as I mentioned to EGG I am not to impressed with the 2E treatment of Vecna. The whole 2E vecna arc is kind of dumb. Vecna lives is all about killing characters and changes some of the Canon (in such a way that I do not like and do not accept). Here are some examples:
Item: Oringal/Change
Kas: Killed by Vecna, nothing left/Imprisoned, turned into Dracula
Vecna: Killed by Kas, spirit roaming/Apparently not killed by Kas
(The Tarrasque can fit through some of the holes in Vecna Lives!)
Sword of Kas: Vecna Finds/Vecna Forges
Sword of Kas: Short Sword/2 handed 6ft blade (2E) or longsword (3E).
The original canon had better story elements. The sword destroys them both and is hinted at as being older and more arcane than Vecna and Kas themselves.
The only reason I think that Vecna might have cleric levels is because of the tie to necromancy. However it seems to me that he would have taken more wizard levels. I guess I will run it by the sage.
Aaron.
Item: Oringal/Change
Kas: Killed by Vecna, nothing left/Imprisoned, turned into Dracula
Vecna: Killed by Kas, spirit roaming/Apparently not killed by Kas
(The Tarrasque can fit through some of the holes in Vecna Lives!)
Sword of Kas: Vecna Finds/Vecna Forges
Sword of Kas: Short Sword/2 handed 6ft blade (2E) or longsword (3E).
The original canon had better story elements. The sword destroys them both and is hinted at as being older and more arcane than Vecna and Kas themselves.
The only reason I think that Vecna might have cleric levels is because of the tie to necromancy. However it seems to me that he would have taken more wizard levels. I guess I will run it by the sage.
Aaron.
Incenjucar
Legend
The reason Vecna has 20 cleric levels...
1) D&D Necromancers have nothing to do with necro-mancy.
2)Vecna was designed using non-epic rules.
1) D&D Necromancers have nothing to do with necro-mancy.
2)Vecna was designed using non-epic rules.
Grazzt
Demon Lord
Wasnt it mentioned somewhere that in order to grant divine spells to their followers, a deity had to have divine class levels? Check page 29 in DDG. In order to grant druid spells a deity must have druid class levels. In order to grant paladin spells, a deity must have paladin class levels.
So- my guess..in order to be able to grant cleric spells....he has to have cleric levels.
So- my guess..in order to be able to grant cleric spells....he has to have cleric levels.
Mouseferatu
Hero
I think the better question is still, why does Vecna have the Ambidextrous feat? 
Pbartender
First Post
mouseferatu said:I think the better question is still, why does Vecna have the Ambidextrous feat?
Why, to reduce his "off-hand" penalty, of course...
