D&D 5E Vecna: Eve of Ruin Coming May 21st!

[Queer Venger]

4 more days!!!
Vecna is going to be the Big Bad of my next campaign!

 

[MockingBird]

Got mine in the mail yesterday. Haven't had a chance to dig into it yet.

 

[Queer Venger]

One More Day!!!
picking up my alternate cover tomorrow and got my digital pre-order ready to drop!!!

 

[EthanSental]

My hard copy arrived yesterday (Monday the 20th) and had the digital book show up in my dndbeyond app a week ago. Flipped through the book last night and just read Beth’s review. I’m looking forward to my own read through and more importantly, playing through it.

 

[Queer Venger]

Pretty big book. Im already starting my changes/edits.

 

[Gravenhurst48]

Most definitely is not a spin off of anything Pathfinder. And the Tomb of Annihilation was the one inspired by Isle of Dread. Out of the Abyss is the one that seems to not have a real call back and just because Demogorgon in it doesn't mean it is related to Savage Tide.

I meant Paizo, who owns Pathfinder. And yes, because Demogorgon is in Abyss the adventure format is similar to Svage Tides Adventure Path. And instead of black pearls the evil catalyst is faerzress. WOTC will never be as good as Pathfinders Adventure Paths until they hire writers with experience from originating authors who put D&D onto the world map.

 

[Gravenhurst48]

Here is a picture of the Spelljammer set with that symbol at the base of the spine for all three books:View attachment 346144

As I said earlier, the pictures in crystals on the cover of the regular version are of Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Avernus. The symbols on the back cover of the alt cover are the symbols used on the adventure books for Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Avernus. That definitely suggests that those three are going to play important roles.

Have you picked up a copy to verify these symbols are involved in the adventure?

 

[Gravenhurst48]

All of those are Forgotten Realms adventures. Inspired by some old content made for other settings, but not based on it. Saltmarsh on the other hand, is by default set in Greyhawk, with guidelines to place the story in other settings if the DM wants.

What was the post I was replying too? No matter, I am sure my comment was to suggest WOTC has to reuse past glorious adventures they hate to advertise are based upon past Greyhawk modules in Oerth, because they have no great writers with any experience to create completely new material, on their own. (I do recall all FR copied adventures do mention relations to Greyhawk and suggest how to drop the adventure into Oerth and other campaign world settings.)
So yes, all those FR adventures are copies of originating Greyhawk material, changed enough to seperate the material from originating material.
And for arguments sake, the FR are not 'exact' copies, as changing the FR places to Greyhawk is as simple as Yawning, which those FR adventures were, boring.

 

[Parmandur]

What was the post I was replying too? No matter, I am sure my comment was to suggest WOTC has to reuse past glorious adventures they hate to advertise are based upon past Greyhawk modules in Oerth, because they have no great writers with any experience to create completely new material, on their own. (I do recall all FR copied adventures do mention relations to Greyhawk and suggest how to drop the adventure into Oerth and other campaign world settings.)
So yes, all those FR adventures are copies of originating Greyhawk material, changed enough to seperate the material from originating material.
And for arguments sake, the FR are not 'exact' copies, as changing the FR places to Greyhawk is as simple as Yawning, which those FR adventures were, boring.

All of the Advebtures you listed are from nearly a decade ago, the most recent one came out in 2017. Your readings of those older 5E Campaigns are shallow, and suggest you haven't actually played or even read them, but the criticism is far less relevant to the last 7 years of Campaign products.

 

[teitan]

I meant Paizo, who owns Pathfinder. And yes, because Demogorgon is in Abyss the adventure format is similar to Svage Tides Adventure Path. And instead of black pearls the evil catalyst is faerzress. WOTC will never be as good as Pathfinders Adventure Paths until they hire writers with experience from originating authors who put D&D onto the world map.

You mean like Chris Perkins who has been around since the TSR days??