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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9739638" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, it stops being the author's/designer's/publisher's setting at the time the book was written... but it is still (general) your setting.  But of course that is true of every single setting book.  As soon as a DM runs a game in any setting, there is no more so-called 'canon' because everything done at the table is not "real" so far as the author/designer/publisher is concerned.  Even for settings that have supposed 'metaplot'.  So one can run a published setting quite fine and it just evolves into their own as a matter of course.As far as the Guilds question... I am not familiar with Ravnica so I cannot say for certain... but any setting is not just one thing, they are many things.  Some might be written to have more focus that other things, but that doesn't mean one has to subscribe to that focus.  So there are quite possibly other things within the world of Ravnica that might be interesting to a DM that do not directly relate to the Guilds.  The same way one can run an Eberron game where the Dragonmarked Houses have very little influence over the game, or a Theros campaign that doesn't involve the Gods at all.  Sure, it might be ignoring a large flagpole that a particular setting raised their flag on... but that doesn't mean it's impossible nor not interesting to look at the small flags.</blockquote>