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The adventure actually does provide an explanation for why only the PCs can solve the crisis.

Rather than talking about Vecna in “every” adventure, they have in fact mentioned him in zero adventures. You could make a good case for Asmodeus being the overarching villain in 5E as he does get mentioned or make cameos in many of the adventures, but there has never been a direct...

He has?

The adventurers venture to the outlaw town of Last Chance. There they find an old friend, and a new ally. Episode 7 of PodCast Party: To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and @enpublishingrpg, now on YouTube:

My concern with the adventure is that it feels like it might be too much inside baseball. Like, targeted at a small subset of really insider-y, hardcore fans. Or like watching Avengers: Endgame as the first Marvel movie you ever saw. For the vast majority of my players, who are casual and not...

Sure. It also doesn't mean "their messaging has been very clear."

I didn't interpret it to mean players can time-travel. I just think they mean that the DM can decide whether this adventure takes place before or after the events of Curse of Strahd. I don't think there is an implied opportunity to meet pre-Darklord Strahd.

I mean, Perkins said "it's the first adventure using the new rules." They muddy the messaging and contradict themselves a lot. Apologists either ignore the mistakes or maintain that anyone who points them out is lying.

It definitely feels more like a victory lap/greatest hits of 2014-2023 5E, especially with re-visiting locations & characters used in 5E adventures.

As written in Curse of Strahd, even if the players kill him, Strahd just returns a few months later courtesy of the Dark Powers, and the status quo is essentially re-set in Barovia. They definitely wrote it that way so that "canonically" Strahd is always there in Barovia.

It does feel like that, but, in fairness, at PAX East Perkins & Crawford did tout the Vecna book as "the first adventure featuring the new rules." I think folks are understandably confused. The messaging has been messy.

7, but a couple of those 7 I've run more than once. Lost Mine of Phandelver - ran multiple times Curse of Strahd - ran twice, prepping a third run now Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - ran once, running two groups through it now Dragon of Icespire Peak - ran once Waterdeep: Dragon Heist...

Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye will indeed be available individually on DNDBeyond for $4.99 starting May 21: Play the Prequel Adventure to Vecna: Eve of Ruin Today. It doesn't get characters to 10th level, though. It's a short 3rd level adventure.

Also noting whether I've DMed, played, or just read the adventure in question. Ranking the anthology/collection books separately, as I consider them to be quite a different kind of product from the campaign-length books. S-Tier: Curse of Strahd (DMed twice) Lost Mine of Phandelver (original...

Prior to 5E, I made up my own adventures 90% of the time and very rarely used pre-written ones (and can’t remember liking any of the ones I did use.) In the 5E era, I use pre-written adventures probably 80-85% of the time. I generally find 5E adventures (official and third party) to be vastly...

This doesn't bother me really because there is an entire generation of players for whom Vecna is the creature in Stranger Things and MAYBE the BBEG in Critical Role campaign 1 (which ended 7 years ago). It's not a character the vast majority of today's players have ever encountered in-game.

Staircase. I enjoy the Vecna preview adventure very much, but my faith in WotC's longer adventures is quite shaken right now by Turn of Fortune's Wheel and Phandelver & Below: The Shattered Obelisk (especially the former, which is one of the very worst official 5E adventures imo). I'm quite...

Of the three you mentioned, Curse of Strahd is far and away the one that most fits this description, and it’s an improvement over the original adventure in every way.

I have run Curse of Strahd and Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden twice each, and highly recommend both. Curse of Strahd works better "out of the box" and has no real plot holes. Frostmaiden's overarching plot is a bit of a mess but it has so many great locations, characters, and ideas and...

Not saying that you're wrong, but there is zero chance that Cocks in that NPR interview would have admitted any damage from OGLGate, regardless of whether there was any or not.