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Najakcharmer -> RE: D-10??? (7/24/2007 7:26:33 PM)
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ORIGINAL: aSlavesLife
Ohhhh, Gawd! My brother has always joked about wanting his assassin character to recover the Schlong of Vecna.
The Head of Vecna. You know you want one.
Cliff Notes for the D&D impaired - Vecna was a powerful Undead lich-king kind of wizardly dude who left a couple body parts lying around, like his hand. If you found this artifact, you could cut off your own hand and press the Hand of Vecna to your stump, and voila, you had all these nifty keen powers. The inevitable jokes this spawned, along with the "Bigby's Interposing Hand" spell becoming "Bigby's Insulting Hand" and suchlike, have lasted for years in gaming fandom.
"Munchkins", aka immature power gamers who ignore plot and storylines in favor of cheating on their character sheets to be super powerful so they can bash the monsters and get the treasure, never seemed to care that cutting off your hand and replacing it with an evil lich hand could have, you know, consequences. Also it would hurt. All they saw was the stat bonus and the nifty powers. So DM's who were sick of munchkins in their games sometimes dropped something in like the Head of Vecna. What happens when you cut your own head off and attempt to replace it with that of an evil dead wizardly dude should be fairly obvious, but that trap still catches one now and then.
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