If so... meh?
I believe most Americans probably say RAV-neek-ah, but!Help, please:
1. RAV ni ka
2. Rav KNEE ka
3. Rav NEET sa
4. Rav NEETCH ah
5. Other
Thanks
The planewalkers will be a cannon D&D class?
So Eberron is out in digital format and Ravnica is the hardcover book. Should have been the other way round. :-/
I agree about the mechanical implications, so that might depend solely on how much they want to have card-game mechanics translate as real. That is, color is important for Planeswalkers, but D&D adventurers are more like (creature) cards in the game.You make two very good points. Color is very much like Magic's equivalent of alignment - although it seems probable that it would have more mechanical implications than WotC has been trying to give alignment lately. But also, now that I think about it, wasn't the in-universe understanding of the colors in Ravnica kind of weak because it was distorted by the guild system? I wouldn't have the guilds replace alignment - they're more like factions, being actual concrete organizations - but they certainly replace how Ravnicans might think about alignment, if I'm recalling correctly.
Thanks - I think I will go with Rav-neets-ah. Seeing as I am, for now at least, European.I believe most Americans probably say RAV-neek-ah, but!
I seem to recall that its actually intended to be pronounced RAV-neets-ah, to keep with its SE European flavor. I believe the "c" is supposed to have a little doo-hicky at the bottom, but they left it out for Marketing reasons.
Take that with a very heavy dose of IIRC.
The planewalkers will be a cannon D&D class?
Would (sub)class choices be limited by color? Would spells for PCs be limited by their color? I actually don't think it would take too many rules to implement it. (Think of how little has to be taken out to remove Alignment.) However, it would take some extra work (re)cataloging spells and creatures by color, and tossing in a few new or modified spells.
Still, a high enough level wizard or cleric is effectively a planeswalker as far as getting to alternate worlds is concerned.
In Magic lore, there are two kinds of planeswalker. A post-Mending 'walker is more like a race than a class: they have this one special trick, but are otherwise completely open-ended in powers and abilities. A pre-Mending 'walker, on the other hand, is somewhere above a god.Unlikely. Haven't seen the actual product on the DM's Guild yet, but the blurb on the WotC page makes me think that the focus is on adventures in Ravnica, with the PCs being members of the Ravnican guilds rather than have the PCs be planeswalkers visiting Ravnica.
Still, a high enough level wizard or cleric is effectively a planeswalker as far as getting to alternate worlds is concerned.
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IIRC, the Anglicized pronunciations are canon - as you say, for marketing reasons. And after all, it's not as if they're actually speaking Czech in Ravnica. Their written language just happens to bear a completely coinicdental resemblance to it...I believe most Americans probably say RAV-neek-ah, but!
I seem to recall that its actually intended to be pronounced RAV-neets-ah, to keep with its SE European flavor. I believe the "c" is supposed to have a little doo-hicky at the bottom, but they left it out for Marketing reasons.
Take that with a very heavy dose of IIRC.