Vecna’s Official Stats and Lore for D&D 5e (The Vecna Dossier)

Hello everyone! Today I'm discussing the official lore and statblock for Vecna that was just released for free on D&D Beyond! Are you going to use this in your games? Be sure to comment! More videos are coming soon, so subscribe if you enjoyed! Check out the links below for more of my stuff.

[rickyesquivias]

The reason it’s a D8 instead of a D6 is NPC and monster design. Hit die correlates to monster size, not class.
Tiny D4, small D6, medium D8, large D10, huge D12, gargantuan D20.

[dallaspark]

I love the stats as this is supposed to be him before kas betrayed him. So he is not even a demigod yet. So the stats are great. Also great video!. :)

[Goraan]

Awesome rundown! Vecna’s crazy and seems like a truly amazing fight

[MrNickudell]

Wow that flight of the damned ability is super cool and flavourful :D

[nickh]

I feel like this would also work well as an stat block for an avatar for Vecna

[Falruk]

Don't you think his stat block incentivizes the DM to have him teleport into melee to get the hit points from vile teleport and because a large portion of his damage is from a melee attack, thus leaving him vulnerable to getting ganged up by the party? I can't see a level 16+ party fight him for more than two rounds before he dies, if you play him the way he's designed, to be a melee combatant with his teleport that asks to go near PCs as well as his dagger. I would've much prefered vile teleport to work the other way - everyone around the area he leaves are subject to the damage, and his dagger should rather be some kind of ranged attack - so the dm is incentivized to play him properly - behind his army of undead at all times.

[edsiefker]

Where are his spell slots? No 9th level spells? Only two 4th level spells? This is garbage.