D&D 5E What are you looking forward to more Vecna: Eve of Ruin or Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Retreater · Apr 22, 2024

My initial feeling is Vecna since there are so few official high-level adventures. I just want to see how they do it.

MonsterEnvy · Apr 22, 2024

Bitbrain said:
Short version? I blame my autism.

Slightly longer version? Because aside from Dark Sun’s dwarven banshee and Mystara’s radiant lich—both of which have unique in-setting lore about them—for some unknown reason, my brain just really dislikes the concept of undead in tabletop games. Whether they be NPCs or simply monsters to fight, it doesn’t matter, I will simply hate the whole experience with a passion.

Now, having said all that, this same distaste does not apply to the PCs, so if a player in my home games wants to be a necromancer-type who commands a horde of undead, more power to them!

Huh that is a strange hang up. Just hating for inexpiable reasons an entire enemy type.

I am autistic myself, and I remember hating some things that spooked me in my childhood for years. Where you scared by skeletons or zombies as a child?

SpellObjectEnthusiast · Apr 22, 2024

Neither. Wotc's 5e adventures are typically incoherent crap or uninspired rehashes of better, older content. Or both.

Umbran · Apr 22, 2024

I am, at the moment, much more likely to run the Vecna adventure than anything out of Infinite Staircase. So, from a practical standpoint, I'm looking to Vecna more.

Bitbrain · Apr 22, 2024

MonsterEnvy said:
Huh that is a strange hang up. Just hating for inexpiable reasons an entire enemy type.

I don’t understand either. Believe me, I realize it’s strange and weirdly specific.

MonsterEnvy said:
I am autistic myself, and I remember hating some things that spooked me in my childhood for years. Were you scared by skeletons or zombies as a child?

A certain prosperity theologian televangelist, actually. No, I’m not going to say his name.

I saw him on TV once when I was two years old and used to have nightmares about his face from the ages of two to about eleven.

Not the guy himself, mind you. I mean literally just his face.

grimmgoose · Apr 22, 2024

I much prefer anthology adventures, as I don't believe the current WOTC team is capable of creating long-form adventures (worth the price they ask for), least of which a high-level long-form adventure.

D&D 5E What are you looking forward to more Vecna: Eve of Ruin or Quests from the Infinite Staircase

What are you looking forward to more Vecna: Eve of Ruin or Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Neither

Tie between both

Retreater

Legend

MonsterEnvy

Legend

SpellObjectEnthusiast

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Umbran

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Bitbrain

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grimmgoose

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