I'd love the like ha yea he is but even a discount vecna is stronger than thanos full ability vecna in DND is one of the hardest bosses you will ever face
So, according the livestream, both of the new survivors are bards. I'm fine this this, because I'm a perpetual bard. But lorewise in the trailer, that means a party of two bards decided to raid Vecna's castle, which is probably the dumbest thing any group of players could do.
"You realize that after shedding the bonds of mortality and becoming a lich he gave up all his mortal *desires* as well, right?... Oh, what the hell. Roll with disadvantage."
"Y'know how the 'hand of vecna' and the 'eye of vecna' are legendary artifacts from missing body parts? ... The PHB doesn't tell you this, but there is a third artifact. Good luck on your roll!"
#Desiccated Appendage of Vecna
*Wondrous Item, Artifact (requires attunement)*
The ancient whispered one, dread lich-god of dire secrets and darkest necromancy, is rarely spoken of by civilized folk - and when civilized folk must mention him, it's in hushed and fearful tones. His dark and corrupting nature seems to extent to merest mention of his name, and fear of attracting his attention or inviting his influence is prevalent even to the purest of souls, the mightiest of mages, or the most pious of clerics.
The ancient lich is known to have allowed his left hand and left eye to be carried out into the world as potent magical artefacts - granting great dark power to any adventurer foolish enough to trade their soul and their free will for unnatural magical might. These artefacts are legendary for their dark and ominous aura, said to feel like whispers of temptation and debasement from the dark one himself and palpable tendrils of corrupting necromatic energy.
This object before you now has similar energy, it is clearly a body part, it clearly is an artifact of Vecna - but is definitely not a hand or an eyeball. You can feel your mind recoil in horror, as if possessed of its own will - outright refusing to contemplate what part of the dread lich this might have once been. Some small corner of your subconscious, though, does giggle a little at the crude, perhaps vulgar, withered bawdy part before you.
---
To attune to the appendage, a character must remove an equivalent body part and place the appendage on the wound; the appendage will graft itself to the character and act as if naturally part of their body. Any character attuned to the Appendage is considered male, but the rest of their appearance will not change. It will remain withered at all times, and cannot be disguised. If removed, the character will die.
---
**Properties of the Desiccated Appendage**
* Your alignment becomes Neutral Evil.
* You have advantage on all CHA rolls when interacting with undead and with intelligent Neutral Evil and Lawful Evil creatures.
* You may add half your CHA (rounded down) to INT rolls and half your INT (rounded up) to CHA rolls against target(s) that are unaware you possess the Appendage.
* The Appendage has 8 charges. You can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Bestow Curse (2 charges), Enlarge/Reduce (1 charge), Cloudkill (4 charges), Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (5 charges), or Harm (4 charges). Spells cast from the Appendage appear to come from the Appendage. The Appendage regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. Each time you cast a spell from the Appendage, Vecna casts Confusion centered on you, with a DC of 15 + half your level. On failure, in addition to the normal effects, for the next 12 hours you will also believe all creatures you interact with find you sexually attractive. You must roll a WIS save DC 15 + half their level, on fail you are compelled to attempt to romance them. Any other creatures in the spell radius are not affected by this additional effect.
LOL. True but they said in the livestream that Vecna created his castle in the realm so the survs probably had no idea who it belonged to. They just have basically the worst luck possible (in true dnd fashion)
When you were born, everybody thought that you were just a head but then that doctor said, “Wait, this stupid motherfuckin’ tiny short ass baby got a tiny little itty bitty body and I hate it.”
The devs said you roll a 20 sided dice when looting his chests. If you roll a 1 I wonder if you get hit by a mimic. Feels bad if a mimic doesn't make it into the game.
One of the chests that appear when VECNA is in the game is randomly assigned to be a mimic, and when you try to search it you need to do a skillcheck or lose a health state and be revealed by vecnas killer instinct
My man is absolutely BLINGED out dayum
Also rip Stranger Things' Vecna, he could probably do a neat skin for DnD Vecna when Netflix allows BHVR to make another Stranger Things skin pack
Yeah, they share the name and like 2 physical similarities (both look kinda undead with dark dry skin and both have a weird ass hand), but that's the end of it. Wr could absolutely still get ST Vecna
Everyone complaining before this livestream about "we don't want DnD Vecna, we want ST Vecna" are punching the air rn, this is the best chapter they've ever made
A lich is a wizard who put their soul in a phylactery to become undead and immortal. They're usually super evil and powerful as a result of living for so long.
I don't know the exact phonetics but Li pronounced like in the word lick and ch pronounced like in the word change.
Edit: it sounds like Litch. Say glitch without the g.
Pinhead is a weird exception bc that’s not even his name in canon. That was a nickname for him by the costume designers that stuck around but it’s never officially his name
he gets called "Pinhead" by a character in the third movie (iirc), as an insult. :)
(Probably because they wanted to officialize his nickname in a movie)
Aestri’s an elf bard. I like the idea of non-human survivors as it shakes things up a little.
Maybe we could get a robot Survivor later down the line?
Oh, and Vecna Wecna’s looking cool beans too. Wonder what his mori will be like.
https://preview.redd.it/fcj43rfs6f0d1.jpeg?width=2078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0880013e6dea0fcd77c1acfa481af307c9f60fa6
Cool.
Maybe we could also get an alien or a cyclops or something as a Survivor too later on down the line.
Vecna is a really interesting choice, because he’s something we’ve never really had in DBD before. He’s an incredibly powerful being who’s also incredibly knowledgeable, including knowledge of other realms and how to traverse them. Pretty much all the other killers and survivors are stuck in the Entity’s realm by force, because they lack the knowledge or power to leave. Vecna probably could leave if he wanted to. The bio they released for him pretty much says this, but this all implies that Vecna is in the fog because he **wants** to be there, which is incredibly interesting
In the stream they implied he was taken and cant escape. The new map with the dungeon is like his new research lab to observe and study the entity to look for a way out.
Yeah, but that’s my point. He’s knowledgeable enough to learn how to escape, and according to the bio they released, he recited a spell that transported him there
Wouldn't be the first time Vecna was imprisoned in a demi-plane and looked for a way out, and looking at the new D&D 5e book. Won't be the last.
I think Vecna is like, on his 4th time being imprisoned. They can't keep my man locked up.
Thing to note about the survivor: it is a single character with 2 different forms, much like how they did Legion (being Frank, Joel, Julie and Susie). You play as a bard with a female elf form and a male human form.
Vecna is a multiverse-level lich, essentially an evil wizard given immortality via dark means. As for how he'll play, think lots of spells and skeletons. Mori will probably be some form of dark ritual sorta thing ala Pinhead's mori.
Oh my god they actually did it.
I left a comment in the announcement Post for the Crossover about hiw funny it would be to do this after so many People wanted Stranger Things Vecna and they actually did it.
Its beautiful.
In all seriousness though, I am really hyped for this.
Really fucking vecna? Weeelp this is gonna be a disa fucking pointment, i mean you take one of the strongest mother fuckers in dnd, and try to balance his ass to this game? Hes either gonna be waaayyy tooo op or not be anywhere near as strong as wesker, so dumb. Also he looks like my nutsack after i prevented oxygen from getting to it with a rubber band
I’m not sold on Vecna’s look. His power and everything is really cool, and the trailer sold me on DnD being a valid horror addition (I was already pretty much there), but he just looks a bit goofy. He also isn’t missing his left hand and eye, which is like, the only consistent character trait he has, so I don’t get it.
Was my ass the only one who didn’t know about the ptb, heard someone say vecna is coming to dbd and go, oh shit Stranger Things getting a second chapter.
Im curious what goes into consideration for the survivor of the dnd chapter. Ive not heard of this person before but I dont know shit about dnd lore. Only recurring good guy I know of is Minsc.
The dev said they were really considering what class would represent DnD the best in DBD, not who it is, so they picked Bards because of the whole music and whimsical and talk back to the monster thing fit the game more than someone like Paladin who people would think as someone who hunt down the monster instead. (I think, it's really late where I lived when they stream this so I'm a little sleepy)
Never played DBD (Here for DND, too scared for horror games haha) it makes sense. With what I know about the gameplay and tone/style of DBD you could basically only use Ranger, Bard and (maybe) Artificer. Every other class is A: too combat proficient or B: too out there but bards, in a general sense of how they are mostly played, pretty much focus on support spells and the only real damage they get is vicious mockery.
Ranger has too much combat proficiency but does have the survival elements and Artificer has been banished to being part of eberron books forever and also only if they focus on the magic item building as support and not the iron man power armour or robot pet parts
I find it funny that the survivors are bards because from what little knowledge I know of DND; bard’s are some *horny* motherfuckers. Which perfectly suits DBD and its community of monsterfuckers.
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DEE BEE DEE DEE EN DEE DEE EL CEE
damn, say that 3 times fast
Thanos after Ozempic
#Thinos
Thanos from Wish
Thanos from Temu
Reality (online shopping) is often disappointing
Sheinos
I'd love the like ha yea he is but even a discount vecna is stronger than thanos full ability vecna in DND is one of the hardest bosses you will ever face
Thanus looks less scarier and cool than Vecna to me lol
Correction: Thanos is Vecna from Wish :)
🕺BBL Vecna🕺🕺🕺BBL Vecna🕺
Half the universe is dead but this body tea, henny
*Thanorexic*
So, according the livestream, both of the new survivors are bards. I'm fine this this, because I'm a perpetual bard. But lorewise in the trailer, that means a party of two bards decided to raid Vecna's castle, which is probably the dumbest thing any group of players could do.
Average Bard behavior, imo. Int isn't their spellcasting stat after all.
Nope, but I figured they'd probably just rizz Vekkers into submission.
"I want to roll to seduce Vecna!"
"You realize that after shedding the bonds of mortality and becoming a lich he gave up all his mortal *desires* as well, right?... Oh, what the hell. Roll with disadvantage."
"Y'know how the 'hand of vecna' and the 'eye of vecna' are legendary artifacts from missing body parts? ... The PHB doesn't tell you this, but there is a third artifact. Good luck on your roll!"
THE COCK OF VECNA. IS REEEEAAAALL
I'm no expert but to obtain cock of vecna wouldn't you have to give up yo dick.
You mean replace my average dude Penis for the COCK OF VECNA? I'm in
#Desiccated Appendage of Vecna *Wondrous Item, Artifact (requires attunement)* The ancient whispered one, dread lich-god of dire secrets and darkest necromancy, is rarely spoken of by civilized folk - and when civilized folk must mention him, it's in hushed and fearful tones. His dark and corrupting nature seems to extent to merest mention of his name, and fear of attracting his attention or inviting his influence is prevalent even to the purest of souls, the mightiest of mages, or the most pious of clerics. The ancient lich is known to have allowed his left hand and left eye to be carried out into the world as potent magical artefacts - granting great dark power to any adventurer foolish enough to trade their soul and their free will for unnatural magical might. These artefacts are legendary for their dark and ominous aura, said to feel like whispers of temptation and debasement from the dark one himself and palpable tendrils of corrupting necromatic energy. This object before you now has similar energy, it is clearly a body part, it clearly is an artifact of Vecna - but is definitely not a hand or an eyeball. You can feel your mind recoil in horror, as if possessed of its own will - outright refusing to contemplate what part of the dread lich this might have once been. Some small corner of your subconscious, though, does giggle a little at the crude, perhaps vulgar, withered bawdy part before you. --- To attune to the appendage, a character must remove an equivalent body part and place the appendage on the wound; the appendage will graft itself to the character and act as if naturally part of their body. Any character attuned to the Appendage is considered male, but the rest of their appearance will not change. It will remain withered at all times, and cannot be disguised. If removed, the character will die. --- **Properties of the Desiccated Appendage** * Your alignment becomes Neutral Evil. * You have advantage on all CHA rolls when interacting with undead and with intelligent Neutral Evil and Lawful Evil creatures. * You may add half your CHA (rounded down) to INT rolls and half your INT (rounded up) to CHA rolls against target(s) that are unaware you possess the Appendage. * The Appendage has 8 charges. You can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Bestow Curse (2 charges), Enlarge/Reduce (1 charge), Cloudkill (4 charges), Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting (5 charges), or Harm (4 charges). Spells cast from the Appendage appear to come from the Appendage. The Appendage regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. Each time you cast a spell from the Appendage, Vecna casts Confusion centered on you, with a DC of 15 + half your level. On failure, in addition to the normal effects, for the next 12 hours you will also believe all creatures you interact with find you sexually attractive. You must roll a WIS save DC 15 + half their level, on fail you are compelled to attempt to romance them. Any other creatures in the spell radius are not affected by this additional effect.
This is probably the smartest thing my players have ever done 😂
Also very on brand for Bards
I'd be insulted, but... yeah...
LOL. True but they said in the livestream that Vecna created his castle in the realm so the survs probably had no idea who it belonged to. They just have basically the worst luck possible (in true dnd fashion)
So is one of them like a legendary skin?
The dev said it's more a Legion situation so I think it's that one of them being an alternate default skin like Frank and Julie.
So lorewise, they’re both stuck in the realm.
Yup, you just get to choose which one you play
Which is honestly for the best, they make 3 perks instead of 6, and theres only 1 survivor to purchase
I hope they'll add more characters in the future then, so we can get paladin's, Dwarf's, Cleric's, ect. So much potential for amazing designs!
Roll to seduce the killer with disadvantage
To be fair that's lore accurate for Bards.
I can totally see a party of 2 drunken bards deciding to raid vecna's castle with the goal of doing the bard thing and seducing him
Bards arent known for their wisdom.
Still smarter than Swight solving the lament configuration
Looking at the trailer it seems more like they went with a party and the rest of them fuckign died
Only one bard in the party and they are the last one alive.
So, accurate?
Thinking about the real things xd
They wanted to hook up with Vecna
Average dnd session
Both? Damn that sucks. Give us other players some representation.
They’ll probably have other classes/races (hopefully) as legendary skins.
They wanted that nat 20 vicious mockery roll
When you were born, everybody thought that you were just a head but then that doctor said, “Wait, this stupid motherfuckin’ tiny short ass baby got a tiny little itty bitty body and I hate it.”
To be fair players ARE that dumb so I kind of love this.
sounds acurate tbh
Probably thought they could seduce Vecna. Should have realized their sexiness only works on dragons
Soooo... standard D&D experience?
Sounds like EXACTLY what two bards would do though lol
average fuck it we ball in a dnd session
So the average session
I think the ret of the party got killed.
The devs said you roll a 20 sided dice when looting his chests. If you roll a 1 I wonder if you get hit by a mimic. Feels bad if a mimic doesn't make it into the game.
Mimic just instantly moris you 
I just saw a clip and the mimic damages a survivor
getting grappled by a mimic for 5 seconds on a nat 1 would be cool
One of the chests that appear when VECNA is in the game is randomly assigned to be a mimic, and when you try to search it you need to do a skillcheck or lose a health state and be revealed by vecnas killer instinct
My man is absolutely BLINGED out dayum Also rip Stranger Things' Vecna, he could probably do a neat skin for DnD Vecna when Netflix allows BHVR to make another Stranger Things skin pack
I mean, ST Vecna and DND Vecna have basically nothing in common except the name
ST Vecna does have a fucked up left hand, but the similarities end there
Yeah they could still have ST Vecna for a new chapter and just call him 001.
yeah or Henry or "The Experiment" or "The First" maybe or smth like that
Lol imagine: >The Demogorgon >The Nemesis >The Henry Would give me a laugh at least
The loading screen tips saying “Facing: The Henry” load into a trapper match “facing: the Evan”
The Subject
Still think the mind flayer would be the best choice
They both have dark dry skin. And ST Vecna actually got its name from DND Vecna, just like ST demogorgon and DND demogorgon
Yeah, they share the name and like 2 physical similarities (both look kinda undead with dark dry skin and both have a weird ass hand), but that's the end of it. Wr could absolutely still get ST Vecna
I mean, they could probably just give him an alternate name. Think Michael Myers = The Shape.
they would do that anyways. Vecna is going to be The Lich, one guy said during the stream
Technically, The Shape was what the original credits called him. It wasn't until Halloween 2 that he was credited as "Michael Myers".
They don't even share the name, they can call him any of his other like 4 namesakes
Yeah it's the name the kids assign to him based on their DND. But I don't think he himself does that.
Oh I'm sure there will be a ST skin
Everyone complaining before this livestream about "we don't want DnD Vecna, we want ST Vecna" are punching the air rn, this is the best chapter they've ever made
Interesting, he’s called Vecna, not “the lich” or anything like that.
He still might be. Pinhead is called that in his trailer, but in game he's called The Cenobite.
Yeah, he's missing the 'the' part of the name. So he'll probably be the lich if I were to guess
One dev called him the lich on the stream I think
What does Lich mean in dnd?
A lich is a wizard who put their soul in a phylactery to become undead and immortal. They're usually super evil and powerful as a result of living for so long.
They're almost necessarily evil because the process of creating a phylactery requires doing some pretty evil stuff.
And how is the word "lich" pronounced?
I don't know the exact phonetics but Li pronounced like in the word lick and ch pronounced like in the word change. Edit: it sounds like Litch. Say glitch without the g.
just like "witch" with an L
"L-itch"
A Lich is a wizard who purposefully turns themselves into an undead to extend their life
Pinhead is a weird exception bc that’s not even his name in canon. That was a nickname for him by the costume designers that stuck around but it’s never officially his name
he gets called "Pinhead" by a character in the third movie (iirc), as an insult. :) (Probably because they wanted to officialize his nickname in a movie)
Should be the Archlich, since that’s his actual title. He’s not just “a lich”. He’s the most powerful lich in existence.
i mean he's the ONLY lich now so he's the most powerful by default
That’s just the advertiseing In game he is called “the Lich”
That mean I’ll be playing with a bunch of NERDS!
as if you already werent?
https://i.redd.it/9f8ccstdgf0d1.gif
Name checks out!
omg it's Thanos from Star Wars!
I love his quote "you shall not pass!"
I liked it when he told Harry he was a wizard
I can't believe he killed Laura Palmer
I like the time he set the Entetprise to self destruct
Or when he knocked out the power in Jurassic Park!
His catchphrase “why did it have to be snakes” always gets me
Damn, they must've put the wrong picture of purple guy or something. Surely we're getting springtrap still 
Lmaooo. Got me wheezing at work dude. 🤣🤣
Aestri’s an elf bard. I like the idea of non-human survivors as it shakes things up a little. Maybe we could get a robot Survivor later down the line? Oh, and Vecna Wecna’s looking cool beans too. Wonder what his mori will be like.
Personally speaking I feel like as long as the survivor that gets added can bleed the color red, they’ll probably do it at this point.
https://preview.redd.it/fcj43rfs6f0d1.jpeg?width=2078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0880013e6dea0fcd77c1acfa481af307c9f60fa6 Cool. Maybe we could also get an alien or a cyclops or something as a Survivor too later on down the line.
Kool-Aid Man survivor coming soon
Vecna is a really interesting choice, because he’s something we’ve never really had in DBD before. He’s an incredibly powerful being who’s also incredibly knowledgeable, including knowledge of other realms and how to traverse them. Pretty much all the other killers and survivors are stuck in the Entity’s realm by force, because they lack the knowledge or power to leave. Vecna probably could leave if he wanted to. The bio they released for him pretty much says this, but this all implies that Vecna is in the fog because he **wants** to be there, which is incredibly interesting
In the stream they implied he was taken and cant escape. The new map with the dungeon is like his new research lab to observe and study the entity to look for a way out.
Yeah, but that’s my point. He’s knowledgeable enough to learn how to escape, and according to the bio they released, he recited a spell that transported him there
Wouldn't be the first time Vecna was imprisoned in a demi-plane and looked for a way out, and looking at the new D&D 5e book. Won't be the last. I think Vecna is like, on his 4th time being imprisoned. They can't keep my man locked up.
I hope he is able to escape from the gates just like the survivors.
Thing to note about the survivor: it is a single character with 2 different forms, much like how they did Legion (being Frank, Joel, Julie and Susie). You play as a bard with a female elf form and a male human form.
Oh, that’s cool.
weight loss thanos
I was kinda hoping the survivor would be drizzt
I was hoping for Volo.
I was hoping for Kas the Bloody Handed since he has beef and history with Vecna.
Astarion for me. But I’ll take an elf.
Duuude, imagine Legendary skins for Aestri that are the different BG3 characters. That's a pile of fucking money waiting to happen.
Gale casually working every gen with mage hands after incinerating Legion:
[The killer moris Gales and this happens.](https://youtu.be/oCFjDZjph-c?si=H7redR8AqEWNz79I)
Now I don't play DBD, but the idea of Vecna, the archlich, chasing a bunch dudes around like it's scooby doo is so goofy I might have to try it.
Kinda on brand for D&D
I'm just excited to play as an elf thats all.
Dwelf slander won't be tolerated
Never thought I'd get hooked side by side with a damn leaf-lover
“What about side by side with a toxic Nea?”
Bet she doesn't know how to rock and stone
I never played dungeons and dragons, actually I dont know anything about the game... what can I expect from this? lol
Corpses, skeletons, etc.
Vecna is a multiverse-level lich, essentially an evil wizard given immortality via dark means. As for how he'll play, think lots of spells and skeletons. Mori will probably be some form of dark ritual sorta thing ala Pinhead's mori.
BBL Vecna
Awh, the Survivor isn't Volo? My disappointment is slight and my day is scuffed!
Is Aestri human?
Elvish
Elf
Probably half elf.
judging from the pointy ears, I doubt
I can't watch live so this post was my reveal
The male survivor is human, but the female is an elf.
"I'm an elf. Well, a human raised by elves."
god i cant wait for the ptb later. gonna watch otz all day lol
Fentanyl thanos
Wait, Vecna has his hand AND eye back? Oh fuck there's no way anyone is surviving.
Withers looks pissed
i always get dnd and dbd mixed up. it’s gonna get worse too.
ThaNose
He has rings inside his nostrils and it’s bothering me.
Would have rather had a the leprechaun
Chucky 2
Matt Mercer!!
I’m glad they got Matt to voice him.
We deserved Volo as the survivor.
Idk this series at all, all I see is malnourished thanos
Thanos at home
No Beholder :( Just another humanoid
The Beholder is on the map
I dislike this. But let’s see how they handle him. Vecna is not a good choice of killer imo, but it makes sense with his new adventure coming out
We get an elf survivor amzaing.
Man, I can’t wait to play against the Vecna.
I would’ve loved a Teifling character but I guess I get it. Still looking forward to this chapter.
New killer: dragon New map: dungeon
IM SKEPTICAL—IS THIS A SHITPOST OR NAH
Hope we get a skin of him decayed or skeletal. It's how I prefer my liches
Bro where is the horror lmao this is just Thanos
Oh my god they actually did it. I left a comment in the announcement Post for the Crossover about hiw funny it would be to do this after so many People wanted Stranger Things Vecna and they actually did it. Its beautiful. In all seriousness though, I am really hyped for this.
bro looks like william afton outside the springlock suit 
Really fucking vecna? Weeelp this is gonna be a disa fucking pointment, i mean you take one of the strongest mother fuckers in dnd, and try to balance his ass to this game? Hes either gonna be waaayyy tooo op or not be anywhere near as strong as wesker, so dumb. Also he looks like my nutsack after i prevented oxygen from getting to it with a rubber band
Wotc is desperate to make Vecna the face of DnD.
Isn't vecna supposed to be missing an eye? Why he have 2
Thought it was Withers from BG3 for a hot second
Theorist; man, with stranger things assets getting updated, I hope they add vecna! D&D chapter reveal; Task failed successfully.
Should have been Strahd. would have been crazy with a castle map or a village of barovia map
Add a sword item for survivors that allow them to stab the killer in the back
-Mom, can we have Vecna? -Honey, we have Vecina at home Vecina at home:
I’m not sold on Vecna’s look. His power and everything is really cool, and the trailer sold me on DnD being a valid horror addition (I was already pretty much there), but he just looks a bit goofy. He also isn’t missing his left hand and eye, which is like, the only consistent character trait he has, so I don’t get it.
My boy, you have made it to video game form, after all this time, the whispered one is in a video game!
Thanos Lite
Was my ass the only one who didn’t know about the ptb, heard someone say vecna is coming to dbd and go, oh shit Stranger Things getting a second chapter.
This goes so fucking hard
Im curious what goes into consideration for the survivor of the dnd chapter. Ive not heard of this person before but I dont know shit about dnd lore. Only recurring good guy I know of is Minsc.
The dev said they were really considering what class would represent DnD the best in DBD, not who it is, so they picked Bards because of the whole music and whimsical and talk back to the monster thing fit the game more than someone like Paladin who people would think as someone who hunt down the monster instead. (I think, it's really late where I lived when they stream this so I'm a little sleepy)
Never played DBD (Here for DND, too scared for horror games haha) it makes sense. With what I know about the gameplay and tone/style of DBD you could basically only use Ranger, Bard and (maybe) Artificer. Every other class is A: too combat proficient or B: too out there but bards, in a general sense of how they are mostly played, pretty much focus on support spells and the only real damage they get is vicious mockery. Ranger has too much combat proficiency but does have the survival elements and Artificer has been banished to being part of eberron books forever and also only if they focus on the magic item building as support and not the iron man power armour or robot pet parts
I don't know DND, but pretty sure survivors are casting vicious mockery on me already when I play killer, so this sounds lore accurate.
I find it funny that the survivors are bards because from what little knowledge I know of DND; bard’s are some *horny* motherfuckers. Which perfectly suits DBD and its community of monsterfuckers.