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

[DEFCON 1]

That's like claiming that chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips are still chocolate chip cookies. Or that replacing the chocolate chips with ground beef means they're still chocolate chip cookies.

Specific settings have specific details you can't remove without removing that which makes them that setting.

There's a reason the term "In Name Only" exists.

Did I say "remove"? No. I said focus on other things. A Dragonlance game that takes place in Krynn but does not focus on the War of the Lance (while it still goes on in the background) is still a Dragonlance game. Same way a Ravnica game that takes place in Ravnica but is not specifically about the Guilds is still a game in the Ravnica setting.

Maybe you can't conceive of a way to do it... but that's on you.

 

[Necropolitan]

Same way a Ravnica game that takes place in Ravnica but is not specifically about the Guilds is still a game in the Ravnica setting.

Maybe you can't conceive of a way to do it... but that's on you.

Go ahead and explain how to do it then.

Literally every single industry and service in Ravnica is controlled or influenced by the Guilds.

The Guilds are a bigger part of the setting than megacorporations are in Cyberpunk, you can't ignore or remove them and have it still be Ravnica.

 

[TwoSix]

My Ravnica got pretty wild. Orcus cultists had made inroads into several of the Guild's leaderships, and manipulated the Gruul clans into a war on the city center.