If so... meh?
Its called expanding the audience.
You and I already buy everything. They can survive us being disappointed.
What's at stake here is getting new gamers into buying D&D books.
They have simply decided the number of new customers isn't increasing as quickly if they release something nobody outside of DnD has heard of.
You may be speaking directly to Jester David based on specific knowledge, but this sounds like general assumption.Its called expanding the audience.
You and I already buy everything. They can survive us being disappointed.
Source?I believe at least the artificer class is inside the Ravnica book. Im wondering about the races though. Second option is a free pdf with the races and class on wizards website or dms guild.
Speaking as someone who hasn't played Magic in 20+ years, I'll be buying this book purely because it's new and interesting. I suspect a fair amount of D&D fans fall into the "neophile" category.I'm sure there are a lot of MtG fans who aren't Ravnica fans who won't care about this. (One of the first comments I saw on Twitter was "I want Tarkir".) And there are the MtG fans who are Ravnica fans who don't care about D&D and have no interest in this book.
Maybe some MtG fans will see this, give the book a read and decide to play D&D. But I suspect not having a familiar world was a the barrier to MtG fans jumping into the game or checking out D&D books.
if they do announce a product that hybridizes Planescape and Spelljammer, that would piss me off. Those are two strongly-flavoured settings that each have their places and have their fans, but which really shouldn't be mixed - like putting fish sauce on cherry ice cream.
That's like saying: "Underwater adventures, aerial adventures, Underdark adventures, and surface-based adventures shouldn't be mixed in the Forgotten Realms."
I mean, if you get in an astral skiff/airship and fly up, you're in "Spelljammer". If you plane shift, you're in "Planescape." If you timetravel, you're in "Chronomancer." It's all the D&D Multiverse. It's all the Planes of Existence.