D&D 5E Here's All The Loot In B&G's Vecna: Eve of Ruin Platinum Edition

Announced in February, the Platinum Edition of Vecna: Eve of Ruin is coming from Beadle & Grimm this summer. As usual, it is packed with goodies-miniatures, handouts, maps, props, and more. These boxed sets are gorgeous--and very expensive, with this one coming in at about $500.

This Limited Edition set contains everything you need to create the most immersive role-playing experience for D&D's newest epic adventure. Contents include:

• The full module of Vecna: Eve of Ruin broken out into five booklets
• D&D Beyond code for the full digital version of the module
• 3 original Beadle & Grimm's Bonus Encounters
• 48 half-page art pieces pulled from the book to share with your players
• Additional DM and player aids, including 17 Secret cards
• All in a faux-leather, foil-stamped, foam-lined storage box to display on your game room shelf
• 18 WizKidsminis, many uniquely painted just for this Platinum Edition. Set includes:
  • Vecna*
  • Tasha*
  • Alustriel*
  • Bearded Devil*
  • Black Rose Bearer*
  • Blazebear (large)
  • Drider (large)
  • Eldritch Knight*
  • Horned Devil (large)*
  • Moonlight Guardian
  • Necromancer Wizard
  • Red Abishai*
  • Spyder-Fiend (x2)*
  • Vrock (large)
  • Warforged Blade (x2)*
  • ???Spoiler???*
• Unique aluminum-plated magic item cards that combine to create a 33.5" Rod Of Seven Parts
• 16 Battle Maps gridded for minis and rolled up in a newly designed map box
• Poster map of The Sanctum, 4 area maps to give to players, and 8 annotated dungeon maps for the DM
• 10 in-world handouts and bonus art pieces to immerse your players in the world of the adventure
• Custom DM Screen with art by Sidharth Chaturved.
• 4 coins
• A temporary Vecna tattoo
• 43 standard size Encounter Cards and 11 oversized cards for the epic NPCs in this adventure (11 oversized encounter cards to fully deliver both the epic art and the epic stat block)

43 standard size Encounter Cards

11 oversized encounter cards to fully deliver both the epic art and the epic stat block

Celebrate victory (Vecna's or the players') with this commemorative coin

18 WizKids minis, many uniquely painted just for this Platinum Edition

Unique aluminum-plated magic item cards that combine to create a 33.5" Rod Of Seven Parts

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Temporary Tattoo
Made to venerate Vecna, sized to fit on the back of your hand

 

[Reynard]

Peoples' definitions of "rich" is always interesting to me. $500 for some people is a lot, and to others it is essentially nothing. For me, personally, it would be a significant chunk of my annual gaming budget, so it would have to be the right product.

 

[Stalker0]

Your seeing a similar thing in the board game space. What designers have learned over the last decade especially, is that there is a real market for "premium add-ons". Many boardgame kickstarters come with fancier money, tokens, minis. Hell, there is now a market for premium organizers just to help you put the pieces back in the box better!

So yeah it makes sense to me. There are people out there who are willing to pay a premium for "the best", and as long as that market exists, designers will seek to cater to it. As it should be imo.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Peoples' definitions of "rich" is always interesting to me. $500 for some people is a lot, and to others it is essentially nothing. For me, personally, it would be a significant chunk of my annual gaming budget, so it would have to be the right product.

I live in a poor red state. $500 for me is a months rent, car payment, or a months utility bills. Etc

Hell paying for a new RPG book is something I have to seriously consider (I usually choose poorly lol)

 

[Reynard]

I live in a poor red state. $500 for me is a months rent,

I did not think there were any such places left.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I did not think there were any such places left.

Poor red states or cheap naughty word housing?

 

[Von Ether]

Peoples' definitions of "rich" is always interesting to me. $500 for some people is a lot, and to others it is essentially nothing. For me, personally, it would be a significant chunk of my annual gaming budget, so it would have to be the right product.

Also priorities. I had to hold an intervention last month as a friend who makes more money than me borrowed (and promptly paid back) a $25 loan to cover shipping on a kickstarter.

Your seeing a similar thing in the board game space. What designers have learned over the last decade especially, is that there is a real market for "premium add-ons". Many boardgame kickstarters come with fancier money, tokens, minis. Hell, there is now a market for premium organizers just to help you put the pieces back in the box better!

So yeah it makes sense to me. There are people out there who are willing to pay a premium for "the best", and as long as that market exists, designers will seek to cater to it. As it should be imo.

Makes me wonder how much more affordable some of these board games would be if they simply used cardboard tokens instead of lots of huge, highly detailed minis. My son bought me the Terraforming Mars upgrade/storage box which I think costs more than the game itself.

Loved the thought and the gift, hated the idea he spent that much. Dad problems.

 

[Upper_Krust]

The Citadel Spider...having to squint a bit (so I might be missing something), but its Challenge Rating 18 (I think) yet deals a MEASLY 22 + 22 with its standard multi-attack!? Surely it should be doing at least triple that!?

Edit: Had another look its actually 26 + 26 damage...so we are in big trouble now!

 

[Von Ether]

I did not think there were any such places left.

There are almost entire states of such places in the USA. Perfect example is if you took Kansas and Oklahoma and cut them up vertically - especially if you made that dividing line just west of Wichita and OKC. Hell, you could probably keep that line going all the way north to the border.

 

[Superchunk77]

The whale fishing continues.

 

[Gorck]

.Beadle & Grimm is not owned by WotC but by Scream/Scooby-Doo/Five Nights at Fredies actor Matthew Lillard.

[gasp] I can’t believe you left out Without a Paddle!