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He was talking about how lethal the current edition rules games he runs can be.

From page 9 of the Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica seems to illustrate how the core conceit of the Setting fits the core definition of Urban Fantasy (except turned to 11, with things like the city built over the Oceans and under the Oceans thanks to the Merfolk and a couple hundred billion...

Granted, and Urban Arcana for 5E is something thst I think would be a solid idea (my three "remake these please" would be Urban Arcana, Gamma World, and Star Frontiers), but again this is how the genre is defined at it's core, and I don't see how Ravncia as presented in the Guildmasters Guide is...

But referring to the Urban Fantasy Wikipedia article, Ravncia meets the characteristics of the subgenre? It isn't contemporary Earth, but thst is not strictly necessary to the Urban Fantasy genre, just a more familiar to contemporary life mode of living.

You see, I broadly agree thst the LotR adaptation is extremely problematic...but the movies are good enough to transcend their sins. One of the key differences is that the LotR is losing stuff by trying to cram too much into too little time. Whereas the Hobbit films are mostly original, to the...

I'm convinced a lot of azon third party marketplace stuff is some sort of money laundering scheme.

They are not bad movies, but I just couldn't get past how bad as adaptations they are. My wife was able to say to herself "wow, for a Warhammer Fantasy movie, this is fantastic!" and enjoy the movies pretending they were not evem trying to be Tolkien.

Both are truly good books, IMO, James Wyatt wrote both and did about as good a job as he did with Eberron Rising from the Last War. The art in both books is among the best for any D&D book ever made, because both world have multiple Magic sets to have drawn pieces from. Ravncia is a sort of...

I'm just going off the Wikipedia article provided, and comparing it to the urban fantasy Setting that WotC did put out for 5E.

Thanks for the hot tip on the spelling. If you read past the first sentence and get into the meat of the article, here are the characteristics of Urban Fantasy, which seem to fit Ravncia as present din the Guild asters Guide: "Urban fantasy combines imaginary/unrealistic elements of plot...

Well, no, thst is not what the Wikipedia article says, and no, thst is not what Ravncia is.

Having reviewed the Wikipedia article, it is hard to see how Guild asters Guide to Ravncia doesn’t count: it is a secondary world with exaggerated features (the city covers the whole planet), but it does seem to fit the tropes.

The full key art and cover for the Mistborn Legacy multi-generational campaign, apparently Brotherwise is feeling pretty excited about how this book turned out:

Ravncia really does spend a lot of energy on setting the urban mafitech ecumenopolis and everyday life there.

I thought I saw somewhere that Colbert may be directing??