WotC Vecna Eve of Ruin: Everything You Need To Know

WotC has posted a 19-minute video telling you 'everything you need to know' about Vecna: Eve Of Ruin.

• Starts at 10th level, goes to 20th.
• Classic villains and setting, famous characters, D&D's legacy.
• Vecna wants to become the supreme being of the multiverse.
• Vecna is a god of secrets and secrets and the power of secrets are a theme throughout the book.
• A mechanical subsystem for using the power of secrets during combat.
• Going back to Ravenloft, the Nine Hells, places where 5th Edition has been in the last 10 years.
• It would be a fun 'meta experience' for players to visit locations they remember lore about.
• Finding pieces of the Rod of Seven Parts, pieces throughout the multiverse.
• Each piece in one of seven distinct planes or settings.
• Allustriel Silverhand has noticed something is wrong, puts call out to Tasha and Mordenkainen, who come to her sanctum in Sigil.
• The (10th level) PCs are fated to confront Vecna.
• Lord Soth and Strahd show up. Tiamat is mentioned but doesn't appear 'on screen'.
• Twists, turns, spoilers.
• It's a 'love letter to D&D'.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Why? Any speculation on that?

Cause Tasha is popular and has been shown off more.

 

[darjr]

Cause Tasha is popular and has been shown off more.

This. My players freaked when they saw the face tattoo

 

[darjr]

Are we returning to the old days of "If it has stats, we can kill it."?

Yes. Absolutely f yes.

 

[Reynard]

Are we returning to the old days of "If it has stats, we can kill it."?

Old days?

 

[Weiley31]

I don’t agree, I think it will be a different and more powerful block as the other one is supposed to be him pre maiming and godhood.

Oh I hope so!

 

[Weiley31]

Old days?

Basically, if you didn't want the players to fight/beat something they weren't supposed to, you made sure there was no stat block.

Can't kill which isn't stated up if it's a boss.

 

[Reynard]

Basically, if you didn't want the players to fight/beat something they weren't supposed to, you made sure there was no stat block.

Can't kill which isn't stated up if it's a boss.

I was making a joke about how that had never stopped being true.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Cause Tasha is popular and has been shown off more.

Been playing D&D since 2E and read a lot of lore and I don't think I ever heard of Tasha until 5E brought her up. Not to say she wasn't important before Im just saying...

They could easily have promoted Dalamar or hell even Raistlin or hey Alustial Silverhand (or any of the Seven Sisters) or any other of more famous NPCs and they would now be "the popular one". She's popular because WotC put her in the spotlight recently. Pretty easy choice to make who to include when you only promote like 2 choices for wizards in Faerun.

 

[Kurotowa]

Been playing D&D since 2E and read a lot of lore and I don't think I ever heard of Tasha until 5E brought her up. Not to say she wasn't important before Im just saying...

I mean, you absolutely did. Just under a different pseudonym. But consider it D&D going with the flow of the current zeitgeist. Wicked and Maleficent made it cool to reframe your witch queen as a misunderstood anti-heroine done dirty. And while Tasha's rise hasn't gone so far as to erase Iggwilv's darker deeds, it's done a good job at casting her as the sarcastic edgy one instead of an outright villain like Vecna.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

None of that stuff is straight time travel though, because time travel is a separate thing.

Not going to go down that debate. There are multiple ways time travel is portrayed. People engaging in this kind of debate are often coming from different expectations, when there isn't one true answer. They are jousting on different fields.