D&D General Do you want a Ravenloft Duskmourn Domain of Dread

[Henadic Theologian]

Do you want a Duskmourn Domain of Dread?

If we are taking planes of MtG abd changing them to fit into D&D then I would like a Ravenloft Domain that the D&D version of Duskmourn. It's my it's tied for my favourite MtG plane, and it would be the easiest to port over to Ravenloft IMHO. I mean unlike Lorwyn as a Domain of Delight in a Forgotten Realms product, it at least would be part of Ravenloft proper, not just tied to the main part of the setting.

Thoughts?

 

[Scribe]

Absolutely not. MtG shouldnt have anything to do with D&D.

Then again, MtG has ruined its own setting/IP by flooding itself with all these Universe Beyond sets, so its all just a bunch of 'whatever' now anyway.

 

[Amphytrion]

I would like it. I’d be happy with a James Wyatt short PDF.

I think it’s set up fairly neatly as a Domain of Dread as it is (self-contained horror).

Valgavoth could be an obyrinth or Elder Evil.

 

[Cheshire Sphinx]

Given that Wizards is "crossing the streams," as it were, I think a Duskmourn Domain of Dread would be a pretty good idea. Between the Eldraine bestiary a while back and Lorwyn/Shadowmoor being made a Domain of Delight and getting a digital-only supplement, I kind of like the idea that we might get three or four small digital supplements of different MtG planes that might be collected in a printed book.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Innistrad is "closer" Ravenloft than Duskmourn. If Dark Powers wante Valgavoth could be summoned to the demiplane of the dread but that would be put the fox in the henhouse. Val would be too hard to be controlled by the dark powers. But Vecna could try to summon Valgavoth to be carried to the demiplane of the dread to cause troubles and to be a pain in the neck of the dark powers.

Other option is a native from Duskmourn becoming a dark lord. This is perfectly possible, for example somebody like the popular egotist "I know you you'd want me to live, bestie!".

We know nothing if divine spellcasters from D&D multiverse can cast divine magic in Duskmourn. Maybe D&D adventures aren't wellcome for Valgavoth because those are too brave to feel enough ammount of fear. Even they could terminate complete cells of Valgavoth cult.

Or some "fear-eater" fiend could become a living dungeons, offering treasures to fools who dared to enter its domain. The fun part would be evil dragons exploring this dungeon but nothing happened because the dungeon wanted to become the dragon's lair using this like a "final boss".

 

[Stormonu]

D&D already has Ravenloft, it doesn't need Duskmourn.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm all in favour of expanding existing settings, rather than adding new ones, however...

I don't think the MtG crossovers have been massively successful. Not flops exactly, but decidedly average sales. The MtG players in my D&D group have never shown any interest in a crossover. All WotC get out of it is saving on the art budget.

When it comes to Ravenloft, domains are strongly tied to the narrative of their dark lord. Hence, it make the most sense to add to the setting in the form of adventures, not setting books.

We don't really have much on the parts of the Shadowfell that are not Ravenloft though.

 

[Amphytrion]

Innistrad is "closer" Ravenloft than Duskmourn. If Dark Powers wante Valgavoth could be summoned to the demiplane of the dread but that would be put the fox in the henhouse. Val would be too hard to be controlled by the dark powers.

I really don't think WotC would be too worried about this. I can, alone and unpaid, think of a series of justifications (e.g. he's dangerous inside but less powerful than outside; or maybe he has just repurposed his prison which wasn't originally like this; or maybe he's a Dark Power himself; or maybe the Dark Powers hope his fear powers will set them free too), and I'm sure WotC can do better. I can even imagine WotC not specifying at all (that'd be in line with more recent setting design).

I don't think the MtG crossovers have been massively successful. Not flops exactly, but decidedly average sales. The MtG players in my D&D group have never shown any interest in a crossover. All WotC get out of it is saving on the art budget.

Anecdotally, I agree with you, my players never requested it either. I do use Ravnica and Theros extensively because the books themselves are great toolboxes, but not the settings themselves.

That being said, I believe that the first time Lorwyn was announced, @bedir than sourced some data that indicated that MTG tie-ins did sell very well (if I misremember, please forgive my tagging you). It is possible that a chunk of MTG players buy them as well as collector's items.

It is also possible that saving in the art budget is a big deal. An average-sales book that didn't spend anything extra on art may be better than a good-sales book that did.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It is also possible that saving in the art budget is a big deal. An average-sales book that didn't spend anything extra on art may be better than a good-sales book that did.

I expect it was, and that is why they kept making them. But Stryxhaven was a snafu exactly because it was an MtG tie in. If they had done an adventure path set in a wizard college for a standard D&D setting it wouldn’t have been trying to be a setting book as well as an adventure and therefore not doing either properly.

 

[Charlaquin]

I really just don’t want any more crossovers, in basically any IPs, but especially WotC’s. I’m so fatigued with every single pop culture property sacrificing its identity at the altar of cross-promotion. Everything is so homogeneous now it’s disgusting.