D&D 5E Survey: What should the next Magic the Gathering Campaign Setting be?

[Umbran]

That is a matter of option, it still matters to a lot of folks and setting fans.

Yeah, and that's a problem. I mean, even outside gaming.

Requiring strict adherence on canon is what some fans want, but it is so incredibly restrictive as to be stifling. It severely limits the stories that can be told. This is what brings us the endless reboots we see in comic books, and the major, catastrophic event to justify rules changes in settings from one game version or another - all to appease the Gods of Canon.

We could do away with all that, if folks would just remember that it is a story. And stories get changed over time, and that's okay. Yes, maybe the new edition of a game doesn't precisely support a thing from the past. That's a small price to pay for decades of continuing content and entertainment.

 

[Tonguez]

Jakandor, Planescape, Mystara and Birthright are good options to be visited by the planewalkers. The forgotten lines allow higher riskes to add some changes.

Maybe crossovers between Magic: the Gathering with other franchises, not only D&D, for example Transformers in Kaladesh, or my little pony (and Shreck) in Eldraine. But these would be like "mash-up" version, more "shonen", like those fanart pictures of medieval fantasy version of famous superheroes or manga characters.

I do like the idea of some Birthright Cards, cool way to highlight the Awnsheg

 

[Marandahir]

I like Kamigawa better than Oriental Adventures.

 

[Mistwell]

Still wanting Antiquities, Urza and Mishra

 

[gyor]

I like Kamigawa better than Oriental Adventures.

I like Kara Tur better then Kamigawa. Honestly I'd heard that Kamigawa was not a popular set, which is why they never went back. Maybe Kara Tur can eat Kamigawa so its the best of both worlds,

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I like Kara Tur better then Kamigawa. Honestly I'd heard that Kamigawa was not a popular set, which is why they never went back. Maybe Kara Tur can eat Kamigawa so its the best of both worlds,

I believe the cards were just terrible, and that's the driver of the loathing. The setting itself is just more stereotypical Asian fantasy written by white guys (and yes, Kara Tur is no better).

If we are going to do Asian fantasy, which I am 100% for, I'd like it actually written by someone who was actually raised in the culture and knows these inspired legends as well as I know King Arthur and the Hobbit.

 

[Tonguez]

I believe the cards were just terrible, and that's the driver of the loathing. The setting itself is just more stereotypical Asian fantasy written by white guys (and yes, Kara Tur is no better).

If we are going to do Asian fantasy, which I am 100% for, I'd like it actually written by someone who was actually raised in the culture and knows these inspired legends as well as I know King Arthur and the Hobbit.

Plane of Mountains and Seas was a special Chinese themed set created by real Chinese Artists and targeted at entry to the Chinese Market, an English version was made available too.

Then theres the Khans of Tarkir ...

 

[Mecheon]

I believe the cards were just terrible, and that's the driver of the loathing. The setting itself is just more stereotypical Asian fantasy written by white guys (and yes, Kara Tur is no better).

Super-focused in on itself with cards that didn't lend themselves to being put into existing decks and, well, followed one of the most broken deck environments ever. But really a lot of its both good part and bad part is it doesn't really go hard into Asian fantasy and instead "Hey, what if we just go REALLY HARD into Shintoism?" which is. Its a thing?

Mind, the artwork is -amazing- for Kamigawa

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My opinion is an Oriental themed new setting should to know the feedback by the Asian fandom, and not only one country, but also from Taiwan, Japan and Korea. And these should support Oriental fantasy like a open door to introduce Asian cultures to the Western public, in the same way Manga helped to know more things about Japan.

When I say Kamigawa is a "single-shot" I mean is a a world for only a main story, but without enough open doors to create new spin-offs. Without the event of the kami war it's a "too little" world. A good settin is enough flexible to allow different events.

And I guess the future Asian-style setting will be with the remake of the martial adept classes (Tome of Battle: Book of the Nine Swords).

 

[gyor]

For Asian themed Settings they will likely do a Kara Tur book. It's much more developed then Kamigawa, and much more diverse, but they might add elements such as races from Kamigawa to Kara Tur, and give Kamigawa a side bar in the book.

Kamigawa is mostly Shinto focused, where as Kara Tur has two Japans inspired by two historical periods, two Chinas also inspired by two historical periods, Koyro (Korea inspired), Tabot (Tibet inspired), A pre Islamic Indonesia inspired nations, a Cambodia inspired nation, a Vietnam Inspired nation, Mongol inspired nation, Siberia inspired nation, a bunch of different religions and religious variations, ect..., not just the usual fantasy Japan and China, which btw is what makes Kara Tur more then just stereotypical Asian by a "white guy" setting. I know of just 1 in the works Korean 5e type setting and zero for other Asian nations that often get over looked.

There is zero other D&D Cambodian inspired setting, other zero other D&D Vietnam inspired settings, other zero other D&D Tibet inspired settings, zero Indonesian inspired D&D settings, zero other D&D Siberian settings. Only Kara Tur had the vision and the guts to go beyond the usual China and Japanese settings for D&D fans.

The setting has soooo much potential.

And the lead designers and writers of Kara Tur had a huge amount of respect for Asian cultures, they did not just reduce it to stuff inspired by Kung Fu movies or Anime, which could easily have happened.