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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Rainsborough" data-source="post: 8660479" data-attributes="member: 7036502"><p>Well, though the adventure may make that oblique comment about what spells Vecna knows are being cast, the actual stat block does not. The stat block says "Vecna utters a dread word to interrupt a creature <strong>he can see</strong> that is casting a spell."</p><p></p><p>So Subtle spell works quite well. </p><p></p><p>And as for going easy on WOTC, the entire premise of the new book (this stat block is written in the new format) was to dumb down stat blocks so DM's did not have to spend time rebuilding them, or learning a ton of options. Now, as a DM, I think that is a ridiculous premise, but WOTC has marketed the book on that premise. I will either ignore the new book or modify heavily stat blocks. But if WOTC was supposed to be designing this book to fill the niche of harried DM's, they have done a terrible job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Rainsborough, post: 8660479, member: 7036502"] Well, though the adventure may make that oblique comment about what spells Vecna knows are being cast, the actual stat block does not. The stat block says "Vecna utters a dread word to interrupt a creature [B]he can see[/B] that is casting a spell." So Subtle spell works quite well. And as for going easy on WOTC, the entire premise of the new book (this stat block is written in the new format) was to dumb down stat blocks so DM's did not have to spend time rebuilding them, or learning a ton of options. Now, as a DM, I think that is a ridiculous premise, but WOTC has marketed the book on that premise. I will either ignore the new book or modify heavily stat blocks. But if WOTC was supposed to be designing this book to fill the niche of harried DM's, they have done a terrible job. [/QUOTE]
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