D&D 5E Vecna: Eve of Ruin Coming 2024

Just revealed by WotC, a multiverse spanning adventure which goes up to level 20 and features cameos from famous D&D characters. More info when we have it!

Update--WotC has taken down the promo image and replaced it with one without a release date. See more here.

 

[Parmandur]

Its not a judgement, its a foreboding, based on the description and general contemporary adventure design. I mean I will be the first who will celebrate if its actually a good adventure, but doesn't "multiverse spanning adventure [...] features cameos from famous D&D characters." sound like railroad full of fanservice and "marvelism" to you?

No, it sounds like a framework in which the designers can hang a bunch of smaller modules. Same as other modern books.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Of course a book built around the Infinite Staircase is going to be framed as "multiverse spanning" - it's one of the major planar causeways like Yggdrasil the World Ash, connecting to places of artistic expression pretty much anywhere.

EDIT: And now I realize I'm in the thread for the Vecna book, not the Infinite Staircase one... Somewhat changes things, but even so, adventures involving Vecna have canonically jumped from Greyhawk to Ravenloft to Planescape in the past, so he's never really been a "one setting" kind of villain.

 

[Azzy]

EDIT: And now I realize I'm in the thread for the Vecna book, not the Infinite Staircase one... Somewhat changes things, but even so, adventures involving Vecna have canonically jumped from Greyhawk to Ravenloft to Planescape in the past, so he's never really been a "one setting" kind of villain.

Yeah, he decided to diversify during 2e.

 

[Retros_x]

No, it sounds like a framework in which the designers can hang a bunch of smaller modules. Same as other modern books.

I don't see how that contradicts my premonition. I'll stay sceptical, but we will see how it plays Out.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't see how that contradicts my premonition. I'll stay sceptical, but we will see how it plays Out.

Maybe a bit of a glass half full thing: modern WotC Adventures have been great, and I like Marvel movies, sooo.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm old enough to remember when this thread wasn't a rehash of posts we've seen about 2014 v 24 and CR and monster blocks that have been made over and over in other threads that weren't about that.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

honestly it sounds like it will be a terrible adventure, but a fun read. So just like many 5e adventures, but even worse because now we get all the fanservice and that multiverse naughty word that takes over every franchise.

Personally I have way to little information about the adventure to make any judgement.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Its not a judgement, its a foreboding, based on the description and general contemporary adventure design. I mean I will be the first who will celebrate if its actually a good adventure, but doesn't "multiverse spanning adventure [...] features cameos from famous D&D characters." sound like railroad full of fanservice and "marvelism" to you?

Marvel multiverse = / = D&D multiverse. They are very different things (at least traditionally). D&D multiverse I am 100% in, Marvel version not so much

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Marvel multiverse = / = D&D multiverse. They are very different things (at least traditionally). D&D multiverse I am 100% in, Marvel version not so much

Yeah, the modern pop culture version of the multiverse (which, I think, is probably more true to the physics use of the word, although still not very) is a very different kettle of fish than the D&D multiverse. So much so that, if I were WotC, I'd consider using a different word.

That said, if we want to have a D&D plane where everyone has hotdog fingers, I am fully on board.

 

[Retros_x]

Personally I have way to little information about the adventure to make any judgement.

Again, its not a judgement, just what these first description sound like makes me a bit anxious.

Marvel multiverse = / = D&D multiverse. They are very different things (at least traditionally). D&D multiverse I am 100% in, Marvel version not so much

Why that equation? I never claimed them to be equal. But thanks to Marvel, multiverses are quite big in popculture right now, so D&D has to bring in their own. I personally don't have any interest in multiverses of any kind so its another negative point for me.