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'.

 

[cranberry]

OK, late to the party, but I just watched the video. If Vecna wants to become the sole god and remake the multiverse to his liking, wouldn't every other god or god-like being go after him with all of their combined and coordinated power in order to stop him?

Or to put it another way, why would all the gods of the multiverse rely on a group of mortals to save reality?

Seems very contrived....

 

[vecna00]

OK, late to the party, but I just watched the video. If Vecna wants to become the sole god and remake the multiverse to his liking, wouldn't every other god or god-like being go after him with all of their combined and coordinated power in order to stop him?

Or to put it another way, why would all the gods of the multiverse rely on a group of mortals to save reality?

Seems very contrived....

I don't think it would be much of an adventure if the gods handled it.

 

[MerricB]

OK, late to the party, but I just watched the video. If Vecna wants to become the sole god and remake the multiverse to his liking, wouldn't every other god or god-like being go after him with all of their combined and coordinated power in order to stop him?

Or to put it another way, why would all the gods of the multiverse rely on a group of mortals to save reality?

Seems very contrived....

You're right! It's even worse than the regular complaint that "high level NPCs don't get involved!"

Cheers,
Merric

 

[MonsterEnvy]

OK, late to the party, but I just watched the video. If Vecna wants to become the sole god and remake the multiverse to his liking, wouldn't every other god or god-like being go after him with all of their combined and coordinated power in order to stop him?

Or to put it another way, why would all the gods of the multiverse rely on a group of mortals to save reality?

Seems very contrived....

The gods don’t seem to know or be able to reach Vecna.

Like the player characters are explicitly only able to reach him cause of a link they share with him.