Ravnica: Is This The New D&D Setting? [UPDATED & CONFIRMED!]

If so... meh?

 

[gyor]

Oh Jace. You all think Drizzt is a Mary Sue...

I don't think is a Mary Sue at all.

 

[schnee]

Ravinca, a sprawling endless city.

Heh, Toronto Canada comes to mind.

I've been fortunate enough to travel. Istanbul and Tokyo are mind-blowingly huge.

I've also done some games in Planescape.

I think the right city can just about provide everything. Even isolation, if it's in a part of it that's been flattened for some (awesome campaign) reason.

 

[Gradine]

I'm pretty familiar with Ravnica, and the first thing I thought when I saw the art wasn't "Ravnica" or "Magic/D&D" even "fantasy setting". It was a different franchise from a different company in a different genre. That's what I'm getting at.

(I mean, at the very least put Niv-Mizzet front and center. Both because he's distinct and recognizable, and because he will not accept being in the background of anything.)

Having stopped playing M:TG roughly around the time The Weatherlight was a thing, I don't really know much about Ravnica myself. My assumption was that this character was a fairly iconic unique/planeswalker type to the setting. However, some light research failed to turn up exactly who she is. Nevertheless, she's certainly evocative of a setting (if not the Ravnica you're familiar with), and it's a setting I'm pretty damn excited to play in.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Having stopped playing M:TG roughly around the time The Weatherlight was a thing, I don't really know much about Ravnica myself. My assumption was that this character was a fairly iconic unique/planeswalker type to the setting.

Nope. That would be the dragon in the background (and the point bears repeating: Niv-Mizzet never allows himself to be in the background).

 

[JacktheRabbit]

I know nothing about this setting, based purely on the picture I want to ask, is this a "magic-punk" setting?

 

[Kite474]

I know nothing about this setting, based purely on the picture I want to ask, is this a "magic-punk" setting?

No, not really. Out of the ten guilds that rule the place, only the Izzet do weird techno-magic. Everyone else is still packing a crap ton of magic though.

It's a faction war intrigue setting like Sigil. Except for instead of being combative philosophers its the Guilds are all competing governmental organs

 

[Kite474]

Oh Jace. You all think Drizzt is a Mary Sue...

Honestly? He really isn't actually, dude losses most of his fights have generally complicated relationships with everyone and keeps getting his damned mind whiped every 5 seconds.

His reputation is more caused by the cards than anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myi-jxhxOnM&t=803s

 

[Mouseferatu]

I have no idea what's been done with Jace in recent years--I admit I stopped following the stories a while ago--but I certainly tried to make him flawed and fallible in Agents of Artifice. It's not even that I have a moral or professional objection to Mary Sue characters, I just don't find them interesting to write (or, usually, to read).

From what I've read here, I take it he's gone back to Ravnica and become someone/something of vital importance?

 

[Kite474]

I have no idea what's been done with Jace in recent years--I admit I stopped following the stories a while ago--but I certainly tried to make him flawed and fallible in Agents of Artifice. It's not even that I have a moral or professional objection to Mary Sue characters, I just don't find them interesting to write (or, usually, to read).

From what I've read here, I take it he's gone back to Ravnica and become someone/something of vital importance?

Basically, all the Guilds figured out a well of power that could allow one to rule them all. So in order to stop an all-out war, they decide to make it a Race to said well of power with each guild electing a champion. Jace represented the Gateless (folks who have no guild affiliation) and won. So he basically became a sort satteled with the job of Trans Guild peacekeeper. It comes with some pretty nifty powers but only applies to Ravnica and Ravnican citizens.

Unfortunately has been gone from Ravnica for the past 6 months or so after being stuck on a Planeswalker Australia... So things are probably hectic

 

[gyor]

No, not really. Out of the ten guilds that rule the place, only the Izzet do weird techno-magic. Everyone else is still packing a crap ton of magic though.

It's a faction war intrigue setting like Sigil. Except for instead of being combative philosophers its the Guilds are all competing governmental organs

I think Simic Combine is also do weird technomagic, but it's biotechnomagic, not physics/engineering technomagic like Izzet.