Dungeons and Dragons will give its fans a big surprise with one of the most popular games of recent years.
If it didn’t wait for the success of Baldur’s Gate 3, the license would be Dungeons and dragons has benefited greatly from the explosion of GOTY 2023. The franchise is on the rise more than ever. So much so that she will soon be the big star of the next chapter of one of the most popular games of the moment: Dead by Daylight.
Yes, you certainly expected that Fourteen days, but no, DnD will enter into its next collaboration with Dead by Daylight. The behavior game is not the first attempt. There are more than a dozen collaborations with other video games, such as: resident Evil or silent Hillbut also a whole range of iconic, fantastic or terrible licenses such as Alien, Chucky, Scream or even Freddy Krueger, to name just a few.
Dungeons & Dragons is joining Dead by Daylight and it’s going to be huge!
This time he will delve into dark fantasy with DnD “one of the most ambitious chapters in the game” According to its developers, exactly that. Dead by Daylight will therefore welcome a brand new killer, the Archilich Vecna. You will definitely like this name if you have watched the last season of Stranger Things which also refers to this DnD character. The developers claim that they want to remind the DnD role-playing game in the gameplay of this new killer. This will give Vecna partial access to a spell book from which he can draw his attacks from 4 spells. Powers chosen by the developers, inspired by the real rules of Dungeons and Dragons. Therefore, “Flight”, “Flight of the Damned”, “Dispel Magic” and “Mage’s Hand” were chosen.
Vecna will be a versatile killer. He will be able to quickly traverse the map to put pressure on the survivors using his flying ability. Another power, Flight of the Damned, is, as the developers explain, a Vecna specific ability in DnD. In Dead by Daylight, you can use it to fire spectral projectiles in large numbers. And even through walls to surprise opponents. As if that wasn’t enough, his Magician’s Hand spell allows him to interact with the pallets by instantly lifting or blocking them.
Fortunately, this spell is difficult to use as it requires a charge time before it can be cast. It is therefore up to you to predict the survivors’ movements. Finally, Dispel Magic is heavily inspired by DnD spells. This attack not only allows Vecna to detect and disable magical items in a specific area, but also to detect and reveal the presence of survivors in the same area. Pretty strong.
The killer isn’t the only new addition in this chapter
As a bonus – staying true to this Dungeons and Dragons spirit – magical and cursed items can be found in chests scattered around the map when facing Vecna. With these objects, the Eye and Hand of Vecna, you can enter lockers very quickly, teleport from one locker to another, or even become invisible. However, each of his actions costs you a few life points and the rarity of the items is randomly selected at the start of the game. Yes, dice rolling is also part of DnD.
In addition to Vecna, there is a new map, The Forgotten Ruins, which is of course heavily inspired by dark fantasy. Finally, a survivor will join the cast, Aestri Yazar, about whom we are still waiting for some details. The Dungeons and Dragons chapter of Dead by Daylight will be available on all platforms on June 3rd.
