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Review Dragon Heist, Mad Mage, and Ravnica!
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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 7767061" data-attributes="member: 6813585"><p>Out of the 3 books mentioned so far I've picked up Dragon Heist and Ravnica. <span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">I had the 2E Undermountain box and it never really saw much play. Although from what I've seen (and read on the forum here) I think Mad Mage might be more useful to me. I've skipped buying about half of the 5e adventure books, usually ones I played in, or hoped to one day play in *cough* Curse of Strahd *cough*</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">If I ever decide to run Dragon Heist I will pick up Mad Mage.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">I liked Dragon Heist, but like the other hard cover adventures I've picked up I'm probably not going to get much use out of it, other than a good read. I did like the info on Waterdeep, and the way the adventure is set up is really interesting. I tend to avoid big cities as a DM, so I thought this would be a good resource if I wanted to rectify that.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">Which brings us to Ravnica. I thought my aversion to large cities would mean this was going be another book to read not play. Not knowing anything about Magic the Gathering I was interested to explore a brand new setting/world. I have to say, I was really surprised and impressed with the book. It's like a box of ideas to play with, which I find inspiring. It's a jumping off point to make your own version of Ravnica. At times I felt like there's a lot missing, and that I had more questions than answers in some ways, at least in terms of how the planet sized city works. Although some of those initial concerns I did find answers to after a more extensive read.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">It's helped that I was a big Planescape fan, and I can see a lot of crossover. I'm even thinking of converting 'The Eternal Boundary' by changing the Dustmen to Golgari Swarm.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">Anyway, that's some thoughts on the current releases.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'">I'm definitely interested in how the Magic / D&D cross over experiment goes, it's probably my favourite book since Volos, so I'm keen to see what's next.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 7767061, member: 6813585"] Out of the 3 books mentioned so far I've picked up Dragon Heist and Ravnica. [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I had the 2E Undermountain box and it never really saw much play. Although from what I've seen (and read on the forum here) I think Mad Mage might be more useful to me. I've skipped buying about half of the 5e adventure books, usually ones I played in, or hoped to one day play in *cough* Curse of Strahd *cough*[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]If I ever decide to run Dragon Heist I will pick up Mad Mage.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I liked Dragon Heist, but like the other hard cover adventures I've picked up I'm probably not going to get much use out of it, other than a good read. I did like the info on Waterdeep, and the way the adventure is set up is really interesting. I tend to avoid big cities as a DM, so I thought this would be a good resource if I wanted to rectify that.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]Which brings us to Ravnica. I thought my aversion to large cities would mean this was going be another book to read not play. Not knowing anything about Magic the Gathering I was interested to explore a brand new setting/world. I have to say, I was really surprised and impressed with the book. It's like a box of ideas to play with, which I find inspiring. It's a jumping off point to make your own version of Ravnica. At times I felt like there's a lot missing, and that I had more questions than answers in some ways, at least in terms of how the planet sized city works. Although some of those initial concerns I did find answers to after a more extensive read.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]It's helped that I was a big Planescape fan, and I can see a lot of crossover. I'm even thinking of converting 'The Eternal Boundary' by changing the Dustmen to Golgari Swarm.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]Anyway, that's some thoughts on the current releases.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody]I'm definitely interested in how the Magic / D&D cross over experiment goes, it's probably my favourite book since Volos, so I'm keen to see what's next.[FONT=arial][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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