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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7563568" data-attributes="member: 6796661">You are probably onto something here. Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica (GGtR) has some of the most gorgeous art of any of the 5e books. I have no intention of running a Ravnica game, I just enjoy reading the books and looking at the art, maybe taking bit and pieces to put into my other campaign. I never got into MtG, when I started to become big just as I was getting ready to go to college, I had a chip on my shoulder about it. That's too young to be a grognard, but I just didn't like what I saw as D&amp;D without the role playing. And the new fans were not hard core fantasy nerds. Kinda how deadheads felt about new fans when Touch of Gray came out or how comic book fans felt when superhero movies started becoming big. It's absolutely ridiculous in hind sight, but nerd tribalism is a thing. I saw it in some threads when GGtR was released. One nice thing about stepping away from the hobby for so long as most of that fell away. I'm now the outsider coming into a hobby that evolved without me and I can rediscover it with new eyes. And it is nice to be able to do as an adult who is too old be to cool. I can enjoy things unironically and not care what others think.I'm still not into CCGs, for reasons that are off topic, but I have been looking over a lot of the MtG art and have discovered some cool concepts. For example, saw some art recently in another thread here on EN World that showed magic users of some sort which were enclosed and &quot;riding&quot; within these large magic spirit animals. It seems like a great alternative imaging of druid wild shape. While it may be anathema to purists on both sides, I personally welcome more D&amp;D and MtG crossovers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7563568, member: 6796661"] You are probably onto something here. Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica (GGtR) has some of the most gorgeous art of any of the 5e books. I have no intention of running a Ravnica game, I just enjoy reading the books and looking at the art, maybe taking bit and pieces to put into my other campaign. I never got into MtG, when I started to become big just as I was getting ready to go to college, I had a chip on my shoulder about it. That's too young to be a grognard, but I just didn't like what I saw as D&D without the role playing. And the new fans were not hard core fantasy nerds. Kinda how deadheads felt about new fans when Touch of Gray came out or how comic book fans felt when superhero movies started becoming big. It's absolutely ridiculous in hind sight, but nerd tribalism is a thing. I saw it in some threads when GGtR was released. One nice thing about stepping away from the hobby for so long as most of that fell away. I'm now the outsider coming into a hobby that evolved without me and I can rediscover it with new eyes. And it is nice to be able to do as an adult who is too old be to cool. I can enjoy things unironically and not care what others think. I'm still not into CCGs, for reasons that are off topic, but I have been looking over a lot of the MtG art and have discovered some cool concepts. For example, saw some art recently in another thread here on EN World that showed magic users of some sort which were enclosed and "riding" within these large magic spirit animals. It seems like a great alternative imaging of druid wild shape. While it may be anathema to purists on both sides, I personally welcome more D&D and MtG crossovers. [/QUOTE]

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