Vecna: Nest Of The Eldritch Eye DM Guide

[@christopherwilliams6902]

Just ran this as my first dm session ever. Thanks you.

[@robodad1]

You’re brave choosing this module. But there’s nothing like jumping in at the deep end. Good luck

[@OhThatRobin]

I just ran this last night for my friends who made temporary new characters for it I wish I’d seen this guide beforehand xD I did make some changes to fit in my home game world and just because I thought these changes would be more interesting: -None of us really wanted to be patrol cops, even as freelance adventurers, so we made the death happen the night beforehand and the sister made a report to the Lord Protector and 2 of the 3 characters were hired to investigate the murder. (our third is an autognome trash collector who joined the investigation after they tried to collect the body and we had to tell them that’s not trash xD) -I had Delvin’s cover stay intact and he was killed by a cultist to a rival lich named Zhengyi who is the big bad of another of our games who does *not* want to answer to Vecna so he’s trying to prevent his return. I left some evidence of the that rival cultist at the scene and an encounter with him drunk at a bar thinking he’d gotten away scot free. -In another of our games we had dethroned Dagult and now his son is in charge so we simply took out the Dagult part of the text when reading xD When they got to the dungeon they convinced the cultists that they were emissaries of Vecna, and that Delvin, one of their faithful, had been slain by a rival cultist (the one they met in the bar who in our game did the killing). In response the cultists took off their robes and followed them to the bar where they overpowered and took the Zhengyi cultist back to their lair to sacrifice him, leaving the players in the bar who are like “Case Closed ^^” and I’m like “t-technically yeah xD” and then a fully returned Vecna appeared before each of them that night to bestow his charms and told them sweetly and creepily “I’ll be watching you…” (this was at least the autognome’s only game the player said they’re one and done so it’s really funny to know that Vecna has his eye on that one and they just pick up trash the rest of their days xD)

[@robodad1]

Sounds like a great game. I like your confidence at rewriting it.

[@OhThatRobin]

@@robodad1 thank you ^^

[@robodad1]

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[@robodad1]

Well they dont IGNORE non magical damage. They RESIST IT, which means they only take half the damage rolled, so die slower. Or from a dm point of view, the monsters get a chance to do something cool before the party wipe them out. Giving Magical weapons out for this would be unnecessary but it’s your game and so your rules. You do whatever the hell you want. But, it should work well as it is.

[@CesarGonzalez-qn9ks]

ok this make since to me know. thank you for that clarification.

[@Commie-Comrade]

0:20 yea, you don't know my players xD Haha, they turn into idiots, the second we start the session

[@robodad1]

Like mine

[@robodad1]

Hey, which module do you want me to do?

[@CesarGonzalez-qn9ks]

I'm planning on running this with 3 players vs the 4. any recommendations to insure i don't TPK early lol

[@robodad1]

It’s usually ok for one player to be downed. Hopefully the party will get them back on their feet. You can always use a GOD to push them back to the land of the living or do a deal with a devil and have them come back changed. Or, have the enemies back off instead. Have mystery reinforcements arrive. Just play as normal then put a bandaid on it to fix it.

[@CesarGonzalez-qn9ks]

I'm a fairly new DM and typically start my part at level 1. With this being a level 3 one shot, and so many of the creatures ignoring non-magical damage, would it be ok for the party to each have at least 1 magical weapon? Perhaps something else for magic users who aren't using weapons?

[@robodad1]

Also if you did run this at level 1, you can reduce the hp and damage of the enemies to make it more fitting.

[@carloscostacox]

Wait a minute... I had no idea Baldric was a DM

[@robodad1]

Funny guy eh