So why didn't WotC release a setting based on Magic the Gathering?

[thedungeondelver]

I always wonder. Considering all the alternatives there are, why spend time at a messageboard for an edition you don't like?

In any case, no hijacking into edition wars, please.

I found myself wondering the same thing during your stay at Dragonsfoot.

 

[Piratecat]

I found myself wondering the same thing during your stay at Dragonsfoot.

Witty snipe! But you may be mistaking me for someone else; I love 1e and (to a lesser extent) 2e. If you're looking for old D&D hate, you aren't going to find it with me.

In any case, though, I more than welcome you to drop me an email if you want to talk more about this. Otherwise, let's please keep this thread on track and not hijacked.

 

[Numion]

But then again, they released Eberron and people still play the game...

What do you mean? Eberron is a good setting, and more to the point, it's more D&D than most of the older settings.

 

[Ranger REG]

I was always curious about this. Since MtG has and is such a big seller for WotC why wouldn't they capitalize on it and make the MtG setting for D&D?

Because I don't want them to.

And yes, I'm violently anti-TCG.

 

[Ranger REG]

What do you mean? Eberron is a good setting, and more to the point, it's more D&D than most of the older settings.

Eberron's too noir for D&D, IMNSHO.

Greyhawk have always been and will always be the definitive D&D setting, so says a FR fan. *bows humbly*

 

[Knight Otu]

Legendary creatures, artefacts, etc are so powerful that when they encounter each other both are destroyed.

Asmo

It's the meeting of hero and anti-hero.

I'm sure someone will shortly come by and explain how it isn't really a destroy effect, but I don't want to be that...... damnit!

Well I think the reasonings behind that decision have all been touched on. Taking planeswalkers out of the equation, it could well be a good chunk of settings (as a non-Magic-player, I'm enamored by Ravnica and Kamigawa). Which may be another problem - which of the planes to choose? There are many, several of which may make interesting settings (Like Dominaria or Ulgrotha for flavor reasons; Segovia, not so much).

 

[WayneLigon]

Because it would have turned off too many people from the game.
But then again, they released Eberron and people still play the game...

It is beyond me to believe someone would stop playing a game they like just because the company that made it produced a supplement that person didn't like. It just doesn't happen.

I mean, you actually think that there are people that stopped playing D&D because Eberron was released? How does someone come to that line of thought? Explain.

Brand dilution or, probably, just that they did marketing surveys and determined that there would not be enough cross-over market to warrent the time and expense.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

While I have no interest in a Magic the D&D World (I got out of Magic around Ice Age os so).


I'd LOVE to see a Beasts of Dominaria Series of Monster Books.

I think you can convert enough critters to D&D Stats without worrying about trying to Bend the D&D rules to match the Card Game Rules.

Back in college, I'd even converted a few Cards into 2nd Ed Stats.

I mean, who wouldn't want to fight an Orinthopter?

 

[Crothian]

Eberron's too noir for D&D, IMNSHO.

Do you mean pulp? Because Eberron is even close to being Noir as it is written.

 

[Ranger REG]

Do you mean pulp?

That too, but I like pulp fantasy like Conan.

It's the noir part that makes it so un-D&D-like. Like watching Mickey Mouse turning his Fantasyland castle into a place for Goths.