The "Head of Vecna" was a hoax that one adventuring party played on another in a campaign run by game master Mark Steuer. One of the groups tricked the other into going on a quest for the "Head of Vecna", a hoax artifact that was supposedly similar to his "Hand" and "Eye", but was simply an ordinary severed head. The hoax takes advantage of the fact that the "Eye" and "Hand" require a person to remove their own eye or hand and replace it with the artifact to function. The characters involved in the story reasoned that they needed to decapitate themselves to gain the powers of the Head of Vecna, and several members of the group actually fought over which character would get to have his head cut off and replaced. After the third character died, the joke was revealed.