What do you want to see in Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica?

Paul Farquhar said:

An explanation for how a fantasy city-planet feeds it's population that is better than "a wizard did it"

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Elfcrusher said:

Ok, more serious answer than my previous one:

Given that it's a planet-sized city, I'd love to see some specific rules for journeys in this city. It could take days/weeks/months to reach new destinations. What happens on the way? How does navigation work? (I'm thinking of Cubicle 7's "Adventures in Middle Earth" as a possible prototype here.) What are the pros/cons of traveling aboveground versus underground?

I really know nothing about Ravnica...I've never played M:tG...but one thing that concerns me is that somebody used "steampunk" to describe it. In general I like low-magic, low-technology settings. I suspect I'll be disappointed by this. Which is too bad because I otherwise love the idea of running an entire campaign in one city.

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Elfcrusher said:

Interesting.

And how about fresh water?

Maybe it rains nearly constantly, so rooftop collectors/cisterns stay full.

Or maybe the city covers the entire land area of the planet, but there are still extensive rivers/lakes/seas/oceans.

And what's going on at the poles?

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Yeah, I hope they come up with at least plausible answers to some of these questions. A card game is one thing, an RPG setting is another.

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SkidAce said:

Colors of magic should be simple and mainly leaning to fluff.

Because technically you could build a deck of any color, so can you choose your spells.

IMO, they "mostly" line up easily.

Playing a beginning wizard, and you have fire bolt and animate dead on your list?

You currently use red and black mana when you cast your spells.

Many spells in D&D could be various colors, after all in MtG there are white healing spells (cleric), and druid (green).


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Planeswalkers have a natural ability to planeshift....other forms of dimensional travel are very rare, most things/creatures/gods don't.

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Easy and done, no mechanics needed.

JMHO.

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SkidAce said:

Planeswalkers have a natural ability to planeshift....other forms of dimensional travel are very rare, most things/creatures/gods don't.

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gyor said:

The book doesn't mention colours of magic at all according to Jeremy Crawford.

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MonkeezOnFire said:

Do planeswalkers also have the ability to summon creatures from other planes and bind them to their will? In one of the novels I read Jace, Liliana and Tezzeret all were able to do it.

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