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'.

 

[darjr]

Here’s where I start with zooming images in that video.

Post in thread 'So what's with 2024 and beyond?'
https://www.enworld.org/threads/so-whats-with-2024-and-beyond.700324/post-9190458

 

[Parmandur]

Well, it should go without saying that if you missed out on the 5E Vecna stat block from Beyond, it seems like it would be a shoe-in for said stat block to return in Eve of Ruin.

Now, the real question is, will Lolth get a Stat Block as well? We have one for Bahamut, Tiamat, And Vecna? (As well as the various Arch Devils and Demon Princes in some format or another). So, stat blocks aren't TOO much of an off limit thing for 5E and Deities.

I will be surprised if Miska The Spider-Wolf doesn't get one. Especially considering the official new art(if he ever had art to begin with from prior editions). Given the history between Miska and The Rod of Seven Pieces it would seem likely it will happen though.

Well, we know that there will be over 30 new stat blocks in the book, focused on the upper half of Levels...

 

[Weiley31]

Also: WILL a certain Dragonborn appear in this as well? Cuz last time we saw the the HAND OF VECNA it was connected to his Tiamat loving stump.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Anyone else notice that they used time travel as a way to have a none Archfey Tasha for this?

Btw this is the first time to my knowledge that Tasha herself has appeared in the Forgotten Realms.

Also they mention some Gods die in this adventure, watch Mystra dies, AGAIN, but Tasha is there to merge with a dying Mystra to become the new Goddess of Magic.

Any particular reason time travel was necessary for this plot to work?

 

[darjr]

Any particular reason time travel was necessary for this plot to work?

Yea. That’s an interesting little twist they have there and I don’t get it.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

Well, it should go without saying that if you missed out on the 5E Vecna stat block from Beyond, it seems like it would be a shoe-in for said stat block to return in Eve of Ruin.

Now, the real question is, will Lolth get a Stat Block as well? We have one for Bahamut, Tiamat, And Vecna? (As well as the various Arch Devils and Demon Princes in some format or another). So, stat blocks aren't TOO much of an off limit thing for 5E and Deities.

I will be surprised if Miska The Spider-Wolf doesn't get one. Especially considering the official new art(if he ever had art to begin with from prior editions). Given the history between Miska and The Rod of Seven Pieces it would seem likely it will happen though.

Do we really just want a "Deities & Demigods & Daemons" / "Elminster Presents: Epic Entities of Eternity" book that give us all those stats for Epic threats?

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

Any particular reason time travel was necessary for this plot to work?

Multiversal handwaving so they can have different Tiamats (Takhisis, GH Tiamat, and FR Tiamat) and different Tashas. Don't they say that is how it is in Fizban's?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Do we really just want a "Deities & Demigods & Daemons" / "Elminster Presents: Epic Entities of Eternity" book that give us all those stats for Epic threats?

I'd be cool with that. Statblocks for WotC IP is on the very short list of things they can provide I might possibly want.

 

[Weiley31]

Any particular reason time travel was necessary for this plot to work?

"Easiest" way to get a non-archfey Tasha to show up for her shift at work.

And to avoid trying to jacking an Arch-Fey Tasha and coming up with a logical explanation.

Plus the Multiverse and Time Traveling are the easiest handwaver tropes.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

I'd be cool with that. Statblocks for WotC IP is on the very short list of things they can provide I might possibly want.

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