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

[Divine2021]

Neat. I look forward to picking this up. Also, the cynicism on display here is kinda silly.

 

[Reynard]

yes they did


do play below 10th level?


this is not a counterargument to the previous post

I'm not sure I understand your point.

Lamenting that 5E doesn't possess the same sort of mechanics as earlier editions and doesn't try to emulate the feel of those editions is sort of silly considering the fan base is not the same. There is no shortage of options for playing different sorts of D&D, especially ones that try and emulate Old School play (we can argue about whether there was "a" old school style, and/or whether the style promoted by the OSR is that) but 5E isn't one of them.

 

[Von Ether]

Knowing most of my local groups, I'll have to wait until the party gets to Eberron before I can play a Warforged. (Like most forever DMs, I run Eberron not only because I like it, but also because I never get to play in it.)

 

[darjr]

I think I just might run the first adventure book then this one with stuff brought in from all the others.

 

[Demetrios1453]

OK, I just compiled a list of all the obelisk appearances in the 5e adventures I could find so far:

Princes of the Apocalypse (in the Temple of Black Earth)
Out of the Abyss (a shattered, but partially rebuilt, obelisk is in the Whorlstone Tunnels under Gracklstugh)
Storm King's Thunder (stolen by cloud giants from the town of Nightstone just before the adventure starts)
Tomb of Annihilation (outside the entrance to the Tomb of the Nine Gods)
Dungeon of the Mad Mage (In Shadowdusk Hold far down inside Undermountain)
Descent into Avernus (on Avernus, surrounded by seven smaller standing stones)
Rime of the Frostmaiden (in the fallen Netherese city of Ythryn)
Spelljammer (one of the random encounters in the Astral is a "Gargantuan floating crystal obelisk of unknown origin")
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk (it's in the name!)

All these could be used as the 1 - 10 adventure that could then be continued into Vecna: Eve of Ruin, (other than DotMM where the obelisk is in a high-level area), presumably using the featured obelisk in some way to transition from the lower level adventure to the higher. And given that Spelljammer is featured on the covers of both the regular and alt editions, I'm guessing that that mysterious gargantuan obelisk is going to come into play. Oddly, despite Ravenloft featuring on the covers as well, I haven't found any references to an obelisk in either the adventure or campaign sourcebook.

 

[Starmaster]

Could someone please explain to me why he has both his hands in the illustration. I haven't read the previously-published Vecna adventures, so did he somehow regain his eyeball and his hand and then reattach them in one of those modules? Or maybe regrow new ones somehow?

 

[Demetrios1453]

Could someone please explain to me why he has both his hands in the illustration. I haven't read the previously-published Vecna adventures, so did he somehow regain his eyeball and his hand and then reattach them in one of those modules? Or maybe regrow new ones somehow?

The left hand in the illustration isn't real - it's glowing and translucent, presumably made of some sort of magical energy.

 

[darjr]

Aren't there megaliths by Old Bonegrinder?

 

[MockingBird]

Arkhan has Vecnas hand in Avernus. Wonder if Arkhan will show up?

 

[Demetrios1453]

Arkhan has Vecnas hand in Avernus. Wonder if Arkhan will show up?

That's an intriguing idea! Avernus is featured on both covers, so it's likely to play a big role, and Arkhan having the Hand would be a very reasonable link.