Vecna was #2 on "Screen Rant"'s 2018 "Dungeons & Dragons: The 15 Most Powerful Villains, Ranked" list — the article highlights the "Vecna Lives" (1991) module and states "the players are given the chance to control the members of the Circle of Eight as they investigate a strange burial mound in the Kron Hills. The players then have to watch in horror as the high-level wizards that they are controlling are brutally dealt with [...]. The players then wake up and realize that they have to succeed where some of the most powerful wizards in the world failed. "Vecna Lives" concludes with the players facing off against an avatar of Vecna".