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Vecna Eve Of Ruin bringsDungeons & Dragonsmultiverse travel back in an adventure set to revisit classic D&D worlds. So what happens when there’s a danger to the multiverse, and how do you navigate your players through a world-altering journey where they’ll encounter names of old and heroes and villains of legend?
That’s where we come in. This guide to Vecna Eve Of Ruin is meant to help DM’straverse the mulitverseand the adventure book, providing tips and tricks to help get through this adventure and answer all your frequently asked questions. Celebrating the fifty-year anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, here’s what you may expect in this D&D adventure.
This guide answers frequently asked questions about the campaign and, therefore, contains certain story spoilers for the adventure.
What Is Vecna Eve Of Ruin About?
As a fifty-year celebration, Vecna Eve Of Ruin takes players through famous and well-known D&D locations as their party once again becomes the heroes who need to save the world. This time, they’re up against Vecna, the lich who is now a god. He’s out to rewrite history and become all-powerful, as you’d expect with the Ritual of Reawakening. So, what is this ritual, and what do you need to know about it as a DM?
The adventure contains unrealities and demiplanes, which may sound confusing, but they’re all explained and labeled well enough to be straightforward.
You’ll need to understand that this Ritual of Reawakening is meant to alter reality to fit Vecna’s rewrite. To understand how Vecna wants to rewrite reality, you’ll need to take a look at his demiplanes in later chapters.
Vecna has created demiplanes in his attempt to rewrite reality. These were practice pocket dimensions Vecna created in his attempts to rewrite the multiverse. These specific demiplanes are examples of what will happen when Vecna rewrites history.
From turning an entire city into death knights that serve him or Vecna killing every god in the multiverse to take their power and scatter their bones across the astral sea, these unrealities are dangerous, and a brief look into what might happen should he succeed in rewriting reality.
The party will become linked to Vecna throughout the adventure, and flashing scenes of this ending can help incentivize the party to stop him.
The entire plan hinges on the secrets he’s learned to help create this new reality, and the party discovers those secrets to thwart his plans with the help of the Rod of Seven Parts, the magical item they’ll need to collect to stop Vecna.
What Level Is Vecna Eve Of Ruin?
You’ve got the plot, but who is this adventure for? Well, here’s the breakdown of information on this D&D adventure.
Description
Character Level
Vecna Eve Of Ruin is recommended to start at level ten and take players fromlevel ten to level 20. You can start wherever you like, but it’s recommended that youdon’t start with characters past level 11.
Recommended Party Size
The adventure isintended for four to six characters, though you may run it with more or less and adjust stats and encounters accordingly.
Character Creation
You can have your party use characters from other adventures that end at level ten or 11 or create brand new characters for the adventure.
Thecharacter creation section features helpful backstoriesand reasons for your characters to be in the starting area of Neverwinter.
Special Features
Vecna Eve Of Ruin will have players revisit D&D locations withmultiversal travel. You’ll also work withfamed heroes and encounter classic villainsalong the way.
The book provides detailed information on these figures with help roleplaying them along with hints for using them in the adventure, including an entire history on Vecna and Kas.
Players will visit the following impactful locations:
Regarding character creation, there are several adventures that end at level 11 and are set in locations revisited in Vecna Eve Of Ruin.
You may want to consider having players use one of those characters, such as Curse Of Strahd,Phandelver And Below The Shattered Obelisk, or Wild Beyond The Witchlight.
You’ll also want to be privy to classic characters such asStrahd Von Zarovich, theLich Vecna, Kas The Betrayer, andLolth The Spider Queen.
All of these characters have sections detailing information about them in the back of the book. Some of them also have stat blocks for use.
What Is The Rod Of Seven Parts?
Integral to the plot of Vecna Eve Of Ruin, the party will need to find anduse the Rod of Seven Parts to stop Vecnafrom destroying the world.
A magical item with a storied history, the Rod of Seven Parts isa powerful artifactthat was once used to imprison a demon lord on Pandemonium.
During the process, it wasshattered into seven pieces, all flown across the multiverse, hence the need to travel and get every piece to stop Vecna.
While you may find out more information regarding the rod in the book, it’s used specifically as a catalyst to travel across the multiverse, finding its parts to stop Vecna.
What Adventure To Run Before Eve Of Ruin
The prequel adventure to Vecna Eve Of Ruin isVecna Nest Of The Eldritch Eye. This is aone-shot style single-sessionadventure forlevel three characters. It’s meant to be run in two to three hours and is a direct prequel to Vecna Eve Of Ruin.
Your players will learn about the cult and get an introduction to the adventure, and then, years later (explaining their transition from level three to level ten), then they’ll begin the adventure.
While you can run this prequel adventure,we suggest running Curse Of Strahdor something similar. Your players will instantly recognize the very familiar starting adventure in the Death House that makes another appearance in Vecna Eve Of Ruin.
They’ll also get the feel of a big bad villain who is hands-off but very much omnipresent before a huge final showdown.
