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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9352081" data-attributes="member: 6894926">Yeah I feel like every "big bad boss" should've gotten flavorful features.. but some like Vecna ONLY got those and can't even pull off potent spells.Vecna the Archlich is weaving his Ritual of Remaking. He is too focused to pay the characters any mind unless they confront him directly. Vecna is funneling energy into the ritual in addition to the power of the secrets his cult gathered, so the lich is considerably less powerful than he normally is. Seems like a great excuse to have an easy "god" for the characters to defeat.To achieve victory, the characters must reduce Vecna to 50 hit points or fewer. A character then must use the Chime of Exile to target Vecna, which requires a clear line of sight to him. If a character wields the complete Rod of Seven Parts in this encounter, that character feels the artifact’s yearning to preserve the order of the multiverse and stop Vecna’s ritual. Each time a character strikes Vecna with the rod, Vecna takes an extra 35 (10d6) psychic damage.Hey look the Rod does have a part to play! By making an easy encounter even easier <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😢" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" title="Crying face    :cry:" data-shortname=":cry:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I look forward to seeing [USER=83242]@dave2008[/USER] 's Vecna- honestly the rod's extra damage could feel useful and earned if Vecna is a scary opponent.Important note from <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/tvd/the-vecna-dossier" target="_blank">The Vecna Dossier</a>, not mentioned in the adventure itself from what I see, is: While Vecna always carries the <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/5424-book-of-vile-darkness" target="_blank">Book of Vile Darkness</a> on his person—in fact, he fashioned his lich form to encompass the Book—he typically has no need to call upon its foul magic in battle. If the DM wishes to run a more challenging (and more complex) encounter, Vecna may call upon any of the book’s abilities as appropriate.So Vecna could be more dangerous if he uses everything at his disposal, but... maybe he forgot he has it in him. Or the DM only read the adventure, and not the Vecna Dossier article.</blockquote>

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