If so... meh?
Those of us who dislike him do so for reasons beyond his physical appearance. Get to know him better, you may find you dislike him too.Personally, what I know about Jace, I like. He suits the ‘mage jock’ archetype. Youthful, beardless, goodlooking, fit, wizard. Pretty awesome. He seems something like a more grown up version of Harry Potter?
Yeah, because in real life, tenured professors and professional athletes are hard to tell apart.It annoys me when as if all of the male wizards seem to be long-hair long-beards. While only the martial archetypes look shiny.
The best thing one can do probably is use this material and convert it to Sigil, there everything is quite logic, [...]
Is Ravnica on a kind of planet? If so is there oceans?
How are 500 Billion humanoids supported (Asuming it is roughly earthsized and half of its area is populated urban area)?
The best thing one can do probably is use this material and convert it to Sigil, there everything is quite logic, it is an all city setting with factions (=guilds) and nourishment is brought in from the planes, which is totally possible since it is not that huge.
I think we're forgetting the fact that Magic's planes are rather small compared to what D&D's conventional description of what a planet is. Though we have no idea how large exactly Ravnica is, it can be assumed that it's much smaller than a standard Earth-sized planet. If I'm not mistaken, the second Ravnica novel discusses the Utvara reclamation zone (which I think was on the opposite side of the plane from the Old City), and it only took maybe less than a week of travel there using rail magitech.
Brady Dommermuth, former head of Creative Design at Magic, has been quoted as saying that Ravnica's entire population is in the millions; that could still give us anything between 2 million and 999 million. For an ecumenopolis, that I think could be relatively small.
I gave an answer in the comments of the newer Ravnica article:
Yes, Ravnica has oceans. These, too have been city-ed over. The second cycle of stories set in Ravnica state that for some reason sinkholes began appearing all across the plane, revealing merfolk and other aquatic creatures and civilizations long-thought extinct.
As for the resources, it's already been frequently stated that the Golgari guild has long been in charge of making sure that the plane's population is more or less sustained. Vast chambers in Ravnica's undercity are used by Golgari druids and necromancers as rot farms to recycle organic material to be used for food:
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I'd never heard of it, so never played a game it... quick google, Magic the Gathering setting. That'll be why.
/startsarcasm
Oh joy.
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I believe the Golgari all really feed the poor. I think there are other sources of food. Likely factory farms for the middle class and rich.
So it's a Fantasy version of Asimov's Trantor.Yes, Ravnica has oceans. These, too have been city-ed over.
And yet it's a much more entertaining setting to play in that any dragonlance or faerun.
While I love those settings in the book , and have enjoyed having played in them, in the end they never stay too far from common fantasy, and lack flavor unless you get involved with big stories/plots ( I do make a generalisation here, I have played grandiose stories in them, but also a lot of dull ones )
Ravnica on the other hand I have played and made players play and everytime it's a hit, even sometimes only because it's so fresh...
Try it before just saying another MtG Setting ( I haven't even tried the two other ported setting from MtG because Innistrad is pretty much ravenloft and Zendikar while I loved the art and I like the concept it's not as well fleshed out as ravnica ( that got something like 6 books and a ton of side lore )