Recent content by Parmandur

I mean, Ravnica does resemble the modern world? Eberron as a whole is not Urban Fantasy, bit one could have easily run an Urban Fantasy campaign in Sharon. Urban Fantasy does not preclude secondary world: otherwise Perdido Street Station (a major influence on Ravnica) would not be Urban...

Genre is slippery.

I think the resistance is not wanting to accept that WotC has succeeded at making Beyond a central pillar of the game: "WotC always fails at making tools" used to be a given, I remember the discourse when Beyond launched based on past efforts. I don't use Beyond, no interest in online tools...

To a large extent, the point of Tom Bombadil is that Tolkien was a discovery writer who just spent a good deal of time in revising and editing, but wasn't interested in ironing out all the weirdness that emerged from his subconscious mind.

And brand new ones have a bazillion options.

Yes, 100%, per the Wikipedia article provided. Ravnica is a secondary world Urban Fantasy, but secondary world is not a deal breaker. Urban Fantasy is, again per the article, about "exploring Modernity with Magic". Ravnica is a weird sort of Modernity, but Modern it is.

Those are Urban Fantasy, yes, but the subgenre is broader than that, and per the definition you provided Ravnica hits the marks.

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...