Vecna, Where is he now?

[Gez]

It might be hip in some circles to say "gay" instead of "lame" but it isn't appropriate in EN World. Please don't do it.

Use "merry" or "joyful" instead of gay.

And "challenged" or "differently-abled" instead of lame.

Thank you.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

It might be hip in some circles...

Yeah, how (censored) is that foehammerx? Try to get a little (censored) sensitivity, you (censored) numbskull. Stop (censored) messing up the (censored) newsgroups for the rest of us (censored) net-geeks, you colossal (censored) potzier.

 

[jester47]

Re: Vecna Lives, Vecna Reborn and Die Vecna Die.

You could totally skip these and just go with Vecna being a lich that was destroyed by Kas, and came back as a souped up wraith. (thinking near demi-lich with Wraith Template). Then through the ages, as people have put on the eye and hand, Vecna has had chances to operate in a more physical form, getting certain things done that advances him to god hood. Recently he was successful.

Aaron.

 

[Qlippoth]

I'll bet Vecna is hip. I'll bet Vecna is so hip that he doesn't even mind being called 'square.'

New artifact for aging PCs: The Hip of Vecna. I'll post powers when I can find my DMG.

 

[David Howery]

once when I was at Gencon, I pitched the idea to one of the Dragon people (forget who) that they should market a T-shirt that said "Vecna hates you" and had a picture of a wizened old man's face sticking his tongue out. Oddly enough, they declined the idea...

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

once when I was at Gencon, I pitched the idea to one of the Dragon people (forget who) that they should market a T-shirt that said "Vecna hates you" and had a picture of a wizened old man's face sticking his tongue out. Oddly enough, they declined the idea...

That's sad. That sounds like a tshirt that would be at a con which would actually be funny.

 

[RSKennan]

I thought he was living in a van, down by the river!

I heard he was Micheal Jackson.

 

[RSKennan]

... the reason Vecna could "escape" from Ravenloft was because he was never really captured. The mists or whatever didn't have the power to keep him there, it was only a wrong assumption on his part that kept him there.

Aw, that's so sweet! He had the power to go home all along ... Sorry about that- i'm feeling punchy today.

 

[reanjr]

Erik Mona stated somewhere that he isnt in Ravenloft in 3e.


Mike

Due to licensing issues, Vecna has been freed by the Dark Powers of Ravenloft. One of only two confirmed releases of a darklord, the other being Soth, which happened due to Tracy Hickman throwing a fit and unilaterally bringing him back just before the fifth of Krynn.

 

[devilish]

Just an interesting related info here:

I actually got to ask Gary Gygax about the events of Vecna Lives.
Gary got angered and said that those events were garbage. I am quoting here "That was David "Zeb" Cooks (the author of the module) stab at me because of his sense of professional Jealosy." You see in the module Venca uses Time stop to kill the entire cricle of 8 in 3 rds. The circle of eight was consistant of almost all Garys charcters. This was after Gary left TSR and remember David Cook was "The Man" of second editon. So david killed the circle of eight to piss off Gygax. How LAME is that.

I always hated that part --- in 2ed, didn't it say you couldn't attack anyone
with "time stop" -- just run around and do things and prep spells that would
go off? I think I remember "because he's got an 18/00, he can attack..."

Complete abuse of Deus Ex Machina.