Editing Orcus (section)

==History==
In all of Orcus's incarnations, it/he/whatever appears as the [[Bloodthirster|goat-headed, cloven-hooved monster from medieval depictions of The Devil]] [[Great Unclean One|(except portlier)]], and wields a rod or mace dubbed "the Wand of Orcus," [[Nagash|and has a fascination with or domain over the undead.]] He has been featured as the [[BBEG]] of multiple adventures, campaigns, and campaign settings, where he usually plots to "kill" all [[Wat|ghosts]] and living beings in the setting and ascend to become a god. Most of the time, he spends the entire campaign sitting on his throne in the [[Abyss]], while the players work their way through the machinations of his minions and worshippers.

And that's the problem with this guy: when the published work ''tries'' to give this guy some agency, he's been Poochie from ''The Simpsons''. Whenever he does something awesomely evil, it happens off-screen, where he upstages the heroes of this game who are supposed to be the PCs. Once, he even showed up to warn the player characters from looting his stuff before returning to The Abyss, preferring to leave a verbal smackdown rather than get his hands dirty. This would lead to his apparent death. His character does better when adventurers go after his One Ring - the Wand.

The only D&D edition that started without Orcus was AD&D 2nd Ed, mostly because of a certain [[Lorraine Williams|someone]] who wanted to get rid of anything un-Christian and anything else she didn't like about D&D (which was anything that wasn't her beloved Buck Rogers... we wish we were joking).  Orcus did come back in 2E with [[Planescape]] supplement as the secret BBEG behind the ''[[Dead Gods]]'' adventure plotline.