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DMG 2. Half of the book would be advanced rules, half of it would be practical tips on how to make rulings. In other words, a book to shift "rulings, not rules" toward "more rules if you want them, and help with making rulings." Systems with too many rules can be tricky or slow. But I find...

There are more players in just the 35–39 age range than in the entire 40+ range! Does that seem odd to anyone else? What exactly happens to people when they turn 40 that causes such a steep dropoff?

I'm in the same boat. In fact, I was on the fence about buying any of the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms MTG cards, because as much as I like the basic mechanisms of MTG, as much as I love the art, and as much as I adore the idea of having another fun little kitchen-table card game with...

Absolutely. My current Descent into Avernus game has a leonine PC—played by a player who's also at least a little bit of a Forgotten Realms lore buff. Easy: he's from a small tribe in the Shaar of heretofore undocumented creatures related to wemics. Makes sense with the setting, and allows the...

That's certainly more true now than it's ever been, but it's still not exactly right. Many of the later adventures presuppose the events of Tyranny of Dragons. Baldur's Gate III assumes a certain outcome of Descent into Avernus. Dragon of Icespire Peak presupposes a certain outcome (or rather...

From your lips to Ao's ears.

Now you're making me want to cancel my preorder! I agree that this set seems destined to sell very, very well. I think I've said more than enough about this to express my thoughts about the matter. And who knows? Maybe I'm wrong—maybe WotC will have a really innovative idea for a big...

That makes more sense. Thanks. (I had read a claim—on EN World, I think—that the age question was the determining factor. Shouldn't believe what I read on the internet.)

It's clear to me that WotC knows that fully merging the two IPs' lore would alienate a certain number of fans on both sides. Obviously, they can make some money by doing so, too—probably much more than whatever they might lose by alienating fans who have an investment in the existing lore. WotC...

Yes.

In the '90s, there were Star Trek / X-Men crossover comics and a novel. I confess I never managed to be much of a fan of either the X-Men or Star Trek—but if I had been a fan of either or even of both, I would have HATED those crossovers. But I guess someone must have loved them. Maybe it was...

Do you really let your D&D players planeshift onto the USS Enterprise? *Edit because that sounds confrontational, and I try not to sound confrontational. Maybe you do really play in one huge chaosmos, and if that's fun for you, then more power to you.

I think there is. The MTG multiverse supposes a number of basic metaphysical and cosmological facts that aren't true in the D&D multiverse, and vice versa. Consider the MTG settings in D&D: as well executed as they are, they can only function in D&D by completely excluding the fundamental...

That's true up to a point, but it's a very light coexistence at the moment, with glancing references to MTG settings within the non-MTG books. There's nothing that would constitute a major crossover event within D&D lore. I'm hoping it stays that way, but fearing it won't.

Me neither, 100% agree. I'm excited about this MTG set as a self-contained Forgotten Realms game. But if WotC does move forward with merging D&D multiverse lore with MTG lore, there's no doubt in my mind that it would be Spellplague 2.0.

OK—a big thank you again to everyone who helped me figure out what I want to buy from this set earlier on in this thread. But now I have another question: do these things sell out like high-demand concert tickets as soon as they go on preorder? Because every site I visit to try to preorder the...

I voted Dragonlance, Planescape/Spelljammer hybrid, Greyhawk, Faerûn—in that order of likelihood. Dark Sun would come next if I had a fifth vote; there appears to be internal enthusiasm for it, and it’s certainly more distinctive (from the FR baseline) than DL or GH—but we know DL is coming, I...

Here's the part where I confess that I'll be buying the LotR set too, and the prospect of an Elminster & Drizzt vs. Gandalf & Legolas throwdown is a big part of the draw for me. But there won't be any space marines shooting at them, that's for sure.

I’m a hardcore D&D fan who doesn’t like (at all) the “meta” or the tournament culture or the lore of MTG but who is excited by the prospect of another collectible game based on his favorite IP. Another after Dice Masters, that is, which I treated the same way I plan to treat this: the D&D-themed...

One more question (thanks to everyone who's answering these): Do the themed Commander decks typically include lots of reprints of cards from other sets?