D&D 5E (2014) How do you run a game in Ravnica?

[Shades of Eternity]

This is book that started my reduction of interest in 5e books.

It's not the worst, but I never figured out how to run a game in this world.

It has all the complaints of Forgotten Realms NPCs interfering with the addition that you're allowed to do even less to avoid messing up the status quo.

The other MTG 5e d&d book, Theros, is way better and has way more wiggle room, as well as all of Greco-Roman history and mythology to crib from.

So how do you run a game, what are the stakes, and how do your plucky band of adventurers make a difference?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This is book that started my reduction of interest in 5e books.

It's not the worst, but I never figured out how to run a game in this world.

It has all the complaints of Forgotten Realms NPCs interfering with the addition that you're allowed to do even less to avoid messing up the status quo.

The other MTG 5e d&d book, Theros, is way better and has way more wiggle room, as well as all of Greco-Roman history and mythology to crib from.

So how do you run a game, what are the stakes, and how do your plucky band of adventurers make a difference?

The novel I read was a police procedural (rather like the movie Bright). It was quite good, and would work as a RPG set up.

Generally, I would look at cyberpunk type scenarios. Could convert stuff from Shadowrun.

The adventures in Keys from the Golden Vault would suit the setting.

 

[Necropolitan]

Ravnica wasn't created with the idea that it would be used as a campaign setting, that's the main problem.

Add in the issue that the storyline immediately after The Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica was released was War of the Spark which resulted in a massive shift of Ravnica's status quo and it just gets worse.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Ravnica is all about Guilds, so my central questions are...
Which players will be from which guilds? Will they all be from the same guild or all different??
Which Guilds do you understand and/or can portray?
How well can you manage fractional conflict? One group like something but another group hates that same something; how does it play out??