![]() ![]() ![]() The groups were adversarial, and the Head was a plot by Group One to defeat Group Two. The context of the tale is that the GM, Mark Steuer, was running a split campaign with two separate groups of players in the same game world. The tale very quickly became popular, even being referred to in the 1999 computer role-playing game Planescape: Torment (based on the Planescape campaign setting). Bob Apthorpe, who ran the Daily Illuminator at the time, posted a tale that had been submitted by a GM called Mark Steuer. The first record of the tale is from 6 December 1996 entry of the Daily Illuminator news column on the Steve Jackson Games website. Believing that they will get vast magical power if they replace their own head with the Head of Vecna, and without thinking through the consequences of their actions, several party members decapitate themselves and die. "The Head of Vecna" is a humorous game tale about a party of Dungeons & Dragons player characters who are lured into a trap by a fake magic item (the eponymous Head of Vecna). ![]()
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