D&D 5E Vs Vecna battle simulations.

[DND_Reborn]

Grid-map Question:

Antimagic Field is a 10-foot radius (self), so should that be a 4x4 circle (2 square radius) or extend two squares beyond Egar (as shown above)???

I checked different sites before posting and saw it both ways.

Either way it will get Vecna, but I am curious as to how others would rule it, because originally I was not going to move so close to Leon...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I wonder why it is showing a second roll for each?? I think maybe it is showing both rolls because he gets two attack via multiattack.

It shows two rolls just incase there is Advantage or Disadvantage. You just ignore the second roll.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I personally got Vecna out in the open because he wanted to keep an eye on the Caster so he could counterspell rather than run away again, as the pillars were being more of a downside. I was late getting here, but I did not want him to teleport away so he would be able to react to what Egar was doing.

 

[DND_Reborn]

It shows two rolls just incase there is Advantage or Disadvantage. You just ignore the second roll.

Seems a weird way to do things, but ok.

I just remember the first round you had Vecna attack Hjalman with Afterthought and said "with advantage", when there was no source of advantage I could see, so it was confusing.

Vecna then makes two Afterthought attacks with advantage.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Seems a weird way to do things, but ok.

I just remember the first round you had Vecna attack Hjalman with Afterthought and said "with advantage", when there was no source of advantage I could see, so it was confusing.

Hjalman was frightened. But I just checked right now, and realized that does not give Advantage so that was my mistake.

More importantly. Somehow in this turn Vecna lost a reaction. During Leon's turn you said Vecna has one reaction remaining, when he has two after that. And I would not have used one in response to Malek. Like this entire turn should not have gone the way it did because Vecna somehow lost a reaction.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

The rogue is balanced around the assumption of being able to sneak attack once each round, so this seems fine to me.

That tends to be because of their allies being near the enemy.

 

[DND_Reborn]

More importantly. Somehow in this turn Vecna lost a reaction. During Leon's turn you said Vecna has one reaction remaining, when he has two after that.

Hmm... I'll review the rounds and see if I can find the mistake.

And I would not have used one in response to Malek.

It turns out it is better that he did since due to Hjalman's FoB he cannot take reactions now anyway.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Hmm... I'll review the rounds and see if I can find the mistake.


It turns out it is better that he did since due to Hjalman's FoB he cannot take reactions now anyway.

But Hjalman would have not gotten the Furry of Blows off, cause Vecna would have had two reactions. You just said that Vecna had one reaction left after Leon's turn used it on Malek's turn, then said he had none left for Hjalman's turn.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Hjalman was frightened. But I just checked right now, and realized that does not give Advantage so that was my mistake.

Ah! Ok, I thought that might have been the case (the first rolls hit anyway IIRC...).

 

[Greg Benage]

(Note: all of Vecna's features are magical and will no longer work while he is in the antimagic field. Afterthought is just a normal dagger now.)

I'm not at all certain that's true, given the Sage Advice on the subject. From the Compendium:

Determining whether a game feature is magical is straightforward. Ask yourself these questions about the feature:
• Is it a magic item?
• Is it a spell? Or does it let you create the effects of a spell that’s mentioned in its description?
• Is it a spell attack?
• Does its description say it’s magical?

By this ruling, it appears Afterthought, Rotten Fate and Spellcasting are "magical," but Flight of the Damned, Vile Teleport, Dread Counterspell and Fell Rebuke are not.