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.

 

[Reynard]

They are using the same CR standards.

I mean, there's your problem right there.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

That doesn't make it not a new edition. Relax. No one is telling you otherwise. But it is still a new set of books with revised rules. That's the very definition of a new edition.

This will be no more a new edition than 3.5 was, and maybe even less of a change than what happened from 3.0 to 3.5, though I am sure the unofficial name for the new core books will be 5.5.

 

[Zaukrie]

If PCs are getting a power boost or shift due to the revision, it isn't out of this world to wonder whether the old adventures will stand up to 2024 parties, or whether the expectation is that when running the old adventures the GM will use the new monster stats. I honestly don't understand why some people get so reactionary at the slightest suggestion that they actually, you know, made changes in the new books.

except no one is making the argument you are suggesting....we are saying the rules are the same, and you can use the old or new monsters. Nothing more or less. I could swear you said we couldn't up thread.....but maybe not.

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, there's your problem right there.

Yes, hence the tuneup to bring the MM in line with more recent Monster books.

 

[Parmandur]

If PCs are getting a power boost or shift due to the revision

Have you not been following the playtest? Because this is not what is happening.

 

[bedir than]

You assert this stuff with literally no knowledge of what changes are being made. The panel just said they were making changes to every monster.

and they explicitly said "there's no change to CR"

 

[Reynard]

except no one is making the argument you are suggesting....we are saying the rules are the same, and you can use the old or new monsters. Nothing more or less. I could swear you said we couldn't up thread.....but maybe not.

I just asked. And yes @Parmandur has said repeatedly that everything with be mathematically the same between the 2014 and 2024 materials so that all will be completely interchangeable. I assume they are a WotC employee, having such precise knowledge.

 

[Reynard]

Yes, hence the tuneup to bring the MM in line with more recent Monster books.

Wait, are they changing things or not. You are talking out of both sides of your mouth on this.

 

[Parmandur]

I just asked. And yes @Parmandur has said repeatedly that everything with be mathematically the same between the 2014 and 2024 materials so that all will be completely interchangeable. I assume they are a WotC employee, having such precise knowledge.

Nah, I can just read the Unearthed Arcana and recent Monster books.

 

[Parmandur]

Wait, are they changing things or not. You are talking out of both sides of your mouth on this.

Yes, about the same as Volo's to Monster's of the Multiverse. I will refer yoy to those changes.