D&D 5E Vecna: Eve of Ruin Trailer Stars Baldur's Gate's Astarion Actor

With Vecna: Eve of Ruin only a month away, WotC has released a trailer for the adventure, with Vecna played by Neil Newbon, the voice of the elf Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3. The trailer features the archlich boasting of his evil plans, ending with the ominous words "Rise with me.... for who can stop a god?"

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What if you could have your heart's deepest desire, the divine power to transform your life for the right price? An eye for an eye, flesh for a crown, wretched mortality for glorious eternity. Rise with me.... for who can stop a god?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

And if I only could ♩I'd make a deal with God ♪
And I'd get Him to swap our places ♫
Be runnin' up that road ♪
Be runnin' up that hill ♫
Be runnin' up that building ♪
Say, if I only could, oh

...Oh, sorry! my head is thinking in other thing.

What if the human Henry Creel from the "Earth"(Stranger Things) was a Vecna's variant? And later when the serie "Stranger Things" ended, he becomes a dark lord in Ravenloft, because it was used as "decoy" by the D&D Vecna.

This new look, with that little touch of Pinhead (Hellraiser) is better, and more with those auras on the eye and the hand.

* In the right hands the redesign of Tharizdun could be awersome, like the elemental version of Lovecraft myths.

 

[vecna00]

I enjoyed the trailer, I was really surprised Neil Newbon (Astarion) did the V/O work!

 

[MerricB]

I enjoyed the trailer, I was really surprised Neil Newbon (Astarion) did the V/O work!

Never trust Astarion in your party again!

Cheers,
Merric

 

[pukunui]

Thoughts?

To be honest, there's not really a lot to go on here. The animation is kinda cool, I guess. But my immediate thought was, "Acererak could take this chump." Vecna thinks he's unstoppable because he's a god? Acererak makes gods ...

 

[Shardstone]

Man my party is gonna cook Veccy boy on sight.

 

[Burnside]

Animation is cool, voice acting is cool, dialogue is basically one cliche after another strung together.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

dialogue is basically one cliche after another strung together

Sums up D&D in a nutshell!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I enjoyed the trailer, I was really surprised Neil Newbon (Astarion) did the V/O work!

Why surprised? It’s not easy making a career as an actor. When you have just had a hit you need to do everything possible to capitalise on it.

 

[vecna00]

Why surprised? It’s not easy making a career as an actor. When you have just had a hit you need to do everything possible to capitalise on it.

I was surprised because, to me, it didn't sound like him.