Vecna 2 DM Tips | How to Run Vecna: Eve of Ruin Chapter 2

Playing DnD Vecna: Eve of Ruin. Check out more #dnd and #roll20 links in this description!
PLAYING VECNA
0: • Vecna 0 | Playing D&D ...
1a: • Vecna 1a | Playing D&D...
1b: • Vecna 1b | Playing D&D...
2a: • Vecna 2a | Playing D&D...
2b: • Vecna 2b | Playing D&D...
3: • Vecna 3 | Playing D&D ...
4a: Pending
DM GUIDE AND TIPS FOR VECNA
0: • Vecna 0 DM Tips | How ...
1: • Vecna 1 DM Tips | How ...
2: • Vecna 2 DM Tips | How ...
3: • Vecna 3 DM Tips | How ...
4: Pending
MORE VECNA
Don't Say Vecna: • Don't Say Vecna | Runn...
Don't Say Vecna DM Tips: • Don't Say Vecna DM Tip...
Curse of Vecna: • Curse of Vecna by Davi...
PLOT
- Time has passed since Neverdeath Graveyard
- Wish spell transports PCs to Alustriel's sanctum
- Learn about Vecna and Rod of Seven Parts
- Teleport to Web's Edge to Recover Piece One
PLOT REVISED
- Time has passed since Neverdeath Graveyard
- Researching and track
- Track cultists to Web's Edge
- Discover an altercation that only one cultist/devil left
- Infiltrate Web's Edge
- Recover Piece One
- Rescue Alustriel
- Teleport to Alustriel's sanctum
- Secrets
-- Gertrude’s Secret Revised. The characters can learn that Gertrude, the lone survivor of an ambushed caravan, and her friend Rockzanna knew about an imminent attack by Lolth’s cultists but said nothing.
-- Kas's Secret. Kas wants the Rod of Seven Parts for his own power.
-- Umberto's Research on Secrets
-- -- You can magically spend a secret by using an action to whisper the secret into the wind. The secret is then gone from all your minds. You/ allies that hear (in 10') gain AD on d20 rolls for 1 minute.
-- Umberto's Stories (www.dndbeyond....)
PC LEVELS AND CHALLENGE
Assuming 5 PCs based on: slyflourish.co...
I also increase monster damage by x1.2 or more (see: • Ramping Up Damage in D... )
L11 - Capture First Piece of Rod of Seven Parts (Finish) - L12
L11 (TCR 31+ deadly)
W2 - Make Torkner an Archmage and Makubli a Champion (TCR21)
W3 - Impossible to Stop Summoning, Grotten Concentrating on Pentagram, if PCs can take over, can keep Demon in circle, Reaction when Demon at half hp to summon Vrock (TCR21)
W5 - Reaction when Demon at half hp to summon Hezrou (TCR21)
W6 - Gertrude the Cyclops injured, change secret to tricked by drow and Alustriel captured
W7 - Replace occupants with Drow Matron Mother, Erinyes, Drow Elite Warrior x2, Drow Mage x2 (TCR56)
W9 - Remove giant lizards
W12 - Add a Yochlol (TCR31)
Nest of the Great Spider - Swarm of Spiders, Spiderdragon, Drow Blackguard, Giant Spider, Drow Aracnomancer, Drider
PACING FOR 4 HOUR SESSION
Assuming a fast pace. A more relaxed pace could go several extra sessions.
Session 1: Surprise Development, Toward Web's Edge, Start Web's Edge
Session 2: Finish Web's Edge, Nest of the Giant Spider, Next Steps
NPC Interactions
Wandering monsters
MAPS
Mike Schley: prints.mikesch...
Northwest Faerun map Bundle: prints.mikesch...
The Underdark Out of the Abyss: prints.mikesch...
Heroic Maps: / heroicmaps
Vecna Eve of Ruin: Chapter 2 - Web's Edge Battlmap: www.dmsguild.c...
Nest of the Great Spider: www.drivethrur...
IMAGES
D&D Beyond: www.dndbeyond....
MUSIC
Tabletop Audio: tabletopaudio.... (and in Roll20)
Surprise Development: Antiquarian Study
Toward Web's Edge: Haunted Ramparts
Web's Edge: Spider's Den, Ancient Artifact (rod)
Nest of the Great Spider: Spire The Hatchery
Next Steps: Antiquarian Study
TOKENS
Unique tokens for this adventure at d20play.com/tokens/
Each token with "Name" appended is also available without a name by removing "Name."
AlustrielName.png
DrowMatronMother.png
GrottenelleName.png
JoleraName.png
KasName.png
MakubliName.png
MalainaName.png
MordendainenName.png
SpiderDragon.png
TashaName.png
TornerName.png
KNOWLEDGE
/w gm “The Spider Queen smiles on you” is a typical religious greeting that those in Web’s Edge expect to hear from fellow devotees. (14Rel/His)
THANK YOU
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[@tonygolbeck1920]

I've been loving these walkthroughs they've been so helpful in informing how I could run these chapters myself! Is there potentially a timeframe on when we could expect the next DM Tips video for Vecna: Eve of Ruin?

[@d20play]

Thank you! I hope to do that one this weekend!

[@DMGregAdventure]

Excellent walkthrough, and great ideas for beefing up these encounters. Thing I’m having a problem with is the transition to the sanctum is so clunky. It feels ok after they arrive but was your party just wandering around and then summoned?

[@d20play]

I put the reins in the PCs hands. They would get to the Sanctum when and if they made it happen. They made it happen at the END of chapter 2 by rescuing Alustriel.

[@DMGregAdventure]

@@d20play I like that. Starting up a Vecna campaign tomorrow night 🥃

[@d20play]

Have fun! I hope you and the players make it your own! I loved the changes that resulted from the PC actions of my players in Chapter 2.

[@billyeginitis7508]

Can I implement the table top audio in roll 20?

[@d20play]

Yes, it is built in